[Football] Fulham Pretend Injury Watch

[GT49er]

The case for 30 minutes each way, with the 4th. official having a stopwatch (and a big clock in the stadium which everyone can see) - and actually a worthwhile job to do - stopwatch stopped when the ball goes out of play, or play is stopped for any other reason - grows and grows with every PL match played.

 

[fisons]

Guess what? No pretend injuries since they went behind and needed to actually try to draw the game

 

[The Wizard]

What an abysmal game this has been

 

[Bodian]

First man to the ref? With his pace?

Ah - but the thing about Gross is he reads the game and is in the right place at the right time!

 

[sheebo]

The sit down one was a smart move, as it was the first break of play after Pervis' handball.
The player made sure VAR had a good long look at that - and we clearly didn't get that time back.

Not seen that done before - guarantee we'll be seeing quite a lot of it in the future.

Pervis at Fulham away did similar in terms of ‘injury’ to make sure they looked.

 

[GT49er]

1-1. Could be (just a bit) worse.

 

[sheebo]

The case for 30 minutes each way, with the 4th. official having a stopwatch (and a big clock in the stadium which everyone can see) - and actually a worthwhile job to do - stopwatch stopped when the ball goes out of play, or play is stopped for any other reason - grows and grows with every PL match played.

Think I said on here from the mouth of RDZ at a fans thing - the average the ball is in play on 90 mins is 45 mins. Interesting stat. Villa was 42 mins. I guess, although that doesn’t sound like a lot of difference, it’s in theory 6 mins additional stoppage time on top of the normal added on time that should have been added…

 

[Durlston]

What an abysmal game this has been

I rather enjoyed it. Not a classic, but the outcome wasn't known right until the end. Fulham miss Mitrovic badly. They are very anaemic without him.

Wolves are like watching paint dry. Imagine having a season ticket at Molineux.

 

[GT49er]

Think I said on here from the mouth of RDZ at a fans thing - the average the ball is in play on 90 mins is 45 mins. Interesting stat. Villa was 42 mins. I guess, although that doesn’t sound like a lot of difference, it’s in theory 6 mins additional stoppage time on top of the normal added on time that should have been added…

It's a bit more than that. SSN did a feature on it this morning - Fulham, Villa and Wolves weren't actually the worst offenders. I can't remember who was, but Newcastle were the second worst. Make of that what you will.

 

[Triggaaar]

The onus isn't on the opposition to play us in a manner conducive to us winning

No it isn't, and if they can reduce our chances with anti-football, then power to them. But we had chances and they got lucky that we didn't take them. Our XG was over 2, there's was 0.3 (I think, from memory). They got lucky.

 

[Weststander]

It's a bit more than that. SSN did a feature on it this morning - Fulham, Villa and Wolves weren't actually the worst offenders. I can't remember who was, but Newcastle were the second worst. Make of that what you will.

Villa are awful.

 

[GT49er]

Villa are awful.

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Thanks for digging out those stats - I knew they were out there somewhere, but hadn't got a clue how to retrieve them!

 

[Weststander]

Thanks for digging out those stats -I knew they were out there somewhere, but hadn't got a clue how to retrieve them!

Brentford crop up repeatedly in other stats too.

An aspect to Thomas Franks football, I hadn’t realised.

 

[Taybha]

I can only imagine 1 scenario where we would get a yellow card for time wasting.

"Brighton have been given a yellow card for time wasting, it's a bit harsh on the penalty taker as he hasn't missed it yet"

 

[Bombardier]

Watch Gross, next week - then admit to being wrong.

He's now first man to the ref and there all the time.

God you are boring sometime. Do you post just to get your stats up.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Not sure I disagree with most of what you say Swannie …but I do re harassing the ref…we are very much the captain doing the talking….course next week Gross will be sent off for verbally abusing the ref in the tunnel

Not sure Lamie, we were frustratingly passive under Potter, we definitely are getting ‘better’ at talking to to the ref…… everyone else does it and the fact we didn’t put us at a disadvantage

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Brentford crop up repeatedly in other stats too.

An aspect to Thomas Franks football, I hadn’t realised.

I said on another thread that they remind me of Taylor's Watford back in the 80's. Can't recall Watford being as cynical though.

 

[eastterracemike]

The case for 30 minutes each way, with the 4th. official having a stopwatch (and a big clock in the stadium which everyone can see) - and actually a worthwhile job to do - stopwatch stopped when the ball goes out of play, or play is stopped for any other reason - grows and grows with every PL match played.

This. Simples.

 

[BrightonCottager]

Palhinha out for 2 games means we'll be more dependent on new signing Lukic for midfield steel. On last night's showing, he looks promising. Vinnicius is still way off being an effective Mitro-clone. Manor Solomon is brilliant and winning / drawing games by himself albeit not fully match fit. 3 goals in 42 minutes of play.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I guess that whilst Mitrovich is out of the side and particularly for away games, these are tactics that they will continue to use.

A shame because l thought Fulham's footballing ethos was rather better than that.