It’s also the deliberate time wasting. For example running down the clock on every scrimmage when your own side is winning. And in the last minute of the game when the QB of the winning team goes down on one knee for each down. And running down the clock right before calling a timeout. The commentators are always on about ‘running down the clock’ so it is a deliberate action.
There is a bit of that for sure, the running the clock down, but that is just the same as taking the ball into the corner flags in football.
The scale of cheating and feigning injury and diving and time wasting in football makes American football pale in significance.
The great thing about the NFL is the changing of the rules and reviewing of the rules constantly, constantly trying to improve the game. Trying to get rule changes to sort out what is wrong in football is like trying to walk through treacle. It's ridiculous.
The NFL see what isn't working and change the rules in order to try and make the game better. With football there seems to be a reluctance to change.
Professional fouls where someone deliberately trips someone, or who pulls them back by the shirt, or body checks them, all without absolutely any intention to get the ball simply HAS to be a red card. It's ludicrous that they are not deemed so.
The timewasting we saw last week at the Ricoh against Crawley was truly, truly shocking and the ref did nothing.
Football could be great, but we are forever dragging our heels and the stakes are so high these days.
I saw a clear penalty yesterday on Danny Wellbeck and the ref missed it. Video replay would have corrected that decision. Yeah, sure they are now brining that in, but it's taken ages and we certainly won't get it in League One an Two.
Best rule they can come up with now, as I suggested the other day, is to have the ref's watch connected to the scoreboard clock. Every time the ref stops his watch the scoreboard clock stops. The players themselves then will see when they amble off after being subbed that they are gaining nothing.
When the ball ends up in the throw in takers hands, the ref stops his watch and in turn the scoreboard clock stops too and the ref doesn't start his watch again until the throw is taken. That would stop timewasting on throw ins. Add to that, that a throw in taker is given say 6 seconds to take the throw once he has the ball.
