Injury Time

[Acker79]

It's always manifestly unfair as it's a massively stupid rule.

The idea behind it is right. It came in when there was a tendency for players to feign injury to waste time, interrupt the flow of the game, throw opponents off their game, etc. and it started to get silly. Players still do that.

The problem for me is that there should be leeway for referees to use the rule effectively, I.e. they should be allowed to leave players they think are exaggerating on the side lines longer, let players who they believe are genuinely injured back on the pitch ASAP, even if that is before the game has restarted. If faking injuries means you are down to 10 men for a couple of minutes, perhaps it would reduce the feigning a bit more.

 

[Notters]

The idea behind it is right. It came in when there was a tendency for players to feign injury to waste time, interrupt the flow of the game, throw opponents off their game, etc. and it started to get silly. Players still do that.

The problem for me is that there should be leeway for referees to use the rule effectively, I.e. they should be allowed to leave players they think are exaggerating on the side lines longer, let players who they believe are genuinely injured back on the pitch ASAP, even if that is before the game has restarted. If faking injuries means you are down to 10 men for a couple of minutes, perhaps it would reduce the feigning a bit more.

But they only have to go off if the trainer's been called on and if the side's been given a free kick surely they shouldn't be punished by being forced down to ten men.

 

[Acker79]

But they only have to go off if the trainer's been called on and if the side's been given a free kick surely they shouldn't be punished by being forced down to ten men.

I don't claim it's flawless, but something needed to be done about the increased feigning of injuries. I'm not sure what other way you can allow treatment in case it is genuine, yet still take efforts to reduce feigned injuries that doesn't have some flaw, beyond doing what I suggested with leeway for refs to minimise or maximise time on the side lines.

 

[ThePolishJig]

Thought the ref was generally quite good and allowed the game to flow.

I know, so many poor refs in our league, he was one of the best for sure!

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

He incensed me from the start when he booked Greer after about 2 mins for a nothing foul but let other worse challenges by their players go unpunished.

Not true. I'm afraid GG deserved his booking, He knew exactly what he was doing, and 'took one for the team'.

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

It was the ref who made the decision on how long was added. Around the eighty ninth minute when the ball was out of play he signalled to the fourth official, three minutes by showing three fingures down by his side, to which the fourth official replied with the same signal. Soon after he displayed the three minutes on his board.

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

You mean the incident where the player got in behind and Greer grabbed him with one arm round his waist and the other over his shoulder and pulled him back, 'taking one for the team'? That was a yellow card all day long. No one can complain about it.

Spot on, lost count of the amount of times I was fighting that corner on Saturday. Blatant foul and really quite smart refereeing, get an early justified yellow out there and place a marker for the rest of the game.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Not true. I'm afraid GG deserved his booking, He knew exactly what he was doing, and 'took one for the team'.

100% this.

What's more, WE scored from that free kick

 

[BensGrandad]

I think that the only way you will stop players going down injured is by making a rule that if a player goes down and the game has to be stopped they must leave the field after treatment and not return for a given time eg 2 or 5 mins players would then only go down if injured rather than as a tactical ploy, and it would not affect any player with a serious injury.

 

[Acker79]

I think that the only way you will stop players going down injured is by making a rule that if a player goes down and the game has to be stopped they must leave the field after treatment and not return for a given time eg 2 or 5 mins players would then only go down if injured rather than as a tactical ploy, and it would not affect any player with a serious injury.

How would that not affect any player with a serious injury?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

How would that not affect any player with a serious injury?

I imagine his suggestion is that if the player was genuinely injured, then he would actually need to be off for the allotted time anyway, recieving treatment - thus imposing that minimum period would not be penalising them. I think.

 

[Acker79]

I imagine his suggestion is that if the player was genuinely injured, then he would actually need to be off for the allotted time anyway, recieving treatment - thus imposing that minimum period would not be penalising them. I think.

Ok. What about when they don't need the full allotted time for treatment?

When you consider most matches only have about three minutes added time to compensate for all the injuries, goals and substitutions, the average treatment time can't be that long, so even making them stand aside for two minutes would be longer than necessary. If you reduce it much beyond that, where is the deterrence? A few seconds on the sideline, but you managed to get the match stopped and the flow of the game interrupted.

 

[BensGrandad]

I imagine his suggestion is that if the player was genuinely injured, then he would actually need to be off for the allotted time anyway, recieving treatment - thus imposing that minimum period would not be penalising them. I think.

Glad somebody realized but how many times does a ref stop a game when a player is apparently near to death for them to get up as if the have been resurrected from the dead by JC. These are the ones that we have to overcome for the good of the game