| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning 09:52 - Apr 17 with 3219 views | Dubtractor |
They must be sore and tender after all those injuries needing physio treatment yesterday.
Tbh their physio must be tired from all the running too.
So unlucky to get that many injuries in a game, with the unfortunate side benefit of taking a breather and getting extra team talks. |  |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:11 - Apr 17 with 2912 views | hadleighboyblue |
This tactic is being used more and more and needs to be stopped .
There has always been the " magic sponge " cure , but this is getting to be a time wasting tactic too often .
Stop the clock for stoppages like they do in rugby . |  | | |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:28 - Apr 17 with 2843 views | FrimleyBlue |
You would have thought after seeing them do it even before scoring, town would have woken up to how to do it why on earth did we not when they were all over us. We just kept going and given them the ball to come at us again and again and again. KM talks about players not managing games.. well teach them how to |  |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:45 - Apr 17 with 2802 views | NthQldITFC |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:11 - Apr 17 by hadleighboyblue |
This tactic is being used more and more and needs to be stopped .
There has always been the " magic sponge " cure , but this is getting to be a time wasting tactic too often .
Stop the clock for stoppages like they do in rugby . |
Totally agree. I'm generally a traditionalist, but stopping the clock for all stoppages would be such an easy and sensible thing to do. Wouldn't entirely correct things because it's also about breaking up play and giving the cheating side a breather, but I suppose you could start adding on time to counteract that? Maybe too far. |  |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:47 - Apr 17 with 2803 views | RegencyBlue |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:11 - Apr 17 by hadleighboyblue |
This tactic is being used more and more and needs to be stopped .
There has always been the " magic sponge " cure , but this is getting to be a time wasting tactic too often .
Stop the clock for stoppages like they do in rugby . |
You can guarantee every team coming to PR next season will be sh1thousing and time wasting from the off because it is effective against us. Next season depends on us finding a way around it because the rules are not going to change and we are still going to have rubbish League 1 officials. |  | | |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 11:11 - Apr 17 with 2754 views | TheBlueGnu |
Yeah, but they WON | |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 11:33 - Apr 17 with 2701 views | timothyeo |
They know how to get promoted. Warne taught Mckenna a bit of a lesson on how to get out of this league and I hope he takes it on board because this division is painful to watch most of the time. | | | |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 11:48 - Apr 17 with 2675 views | hadleighboyblue |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:47 - Apr 17 by RegencyBlue |
You can guarantee every team coming to PR next season will be sh1thousing and time wasting from the off because it is effective against us. Next season depends on us finding a way around it because the rules are not going to change and we are still going to have rubbish League 1 officials. |
The best way to stop the opposition doing it , is for us to be winning games .
But football really needs to get a grip on all the cheating that goes on , it's definitely getting worse , get the rules right and teams would soon stop it . | | | |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 12:32 - Apr 17 with 2611 views | Ftnfwest |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:28 - Apr 17 by FrimleyBlue |
You would have thought after seeing them do it even before scoring, town would have woken up to how to do it why on earth did we not when they were all over us. We just kept going and given them the ball to come at us again and again and again. KM talks about players not managing games.. well teach them how to |
We’ve always been rubbish at cheating, never can do it properly. Micks teams could rough the oppo up but even they didn’t do the falling over at the slightest touch stuff. |  | | |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 18:35 - Apr 17 with 2434 views | Sharkey |
I cannot see how stopping the clock would help at all. People do this thing to stop the opposition getting up a head of steam, not because they think the game will actually be shorter.
To my mind it’s something like something I read in the book Freakanomics many years ago. Kindergartens were sick of parents turning up late to pick up their kids so they introduced fines. Result? Parents turned up even later, because they didn’t need to feel guilty about it. There will be more and longer time-outs if stop-the-clock comes in.
The best way to get rid of this would be for fans to jeer their own team for time wasting. People have trains to catch after evening games ( which already start too late and half time seems to get longer and longer) - they don’t want their time wasted.
And interviewers should be harsher on coaches when they talk about ‘game management?’ ; e.g. Be this, do you mean gamesmanship and wasting the crowd’s time? |  | | |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 18:39 - Apr 17 with 2423 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 18:35 - Apr 17 by Sharkey |
I cannot see how stopping the clock would help at all. People do this thing to stop the opposition getting up a head of steam, not because they think the game will actually be shorter.
To my mind it’s something like something I read in the book Freakanomics many years ago. Kindergartens were sick of parents turning up late to pick up their kids so they introduced fines. Result? Parents turned up even later, because they didn’t need to feel guilty about it. There will be more and longer time-outs if stop-the-clock comes in.
The best way to get rid of this would be for fans to jeer their own team for time wasting. People have trains to catch after evening games ( which already start too late and half time seems to get longer and longer) - they don’t want their time wasted.
And interviewers should be harsher on coaches when they talk about ‘game management?’ ; e.g. Be this, do you mean gamesmanship and wasting the crowd’s time? |
It's not about stopping the clock it's breaking the game down when the opposition are on the attack. Look at the timings of their phantom injuries. Then team huddles at the dugouts. Get drinks down them. Have a breather and then back to the game against an unsettled side. Each injury they had in that 2nd half was when town had either an opportunity ( aluko/gk) or when town started to get back into the half ( norwood elbow). We didn't even try it despite having Rotherham all over us for 50 minutes | |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 19:35 - Apr 17 with 2333 views | TractorWood |
Someone moans about this every week in here. It's football and tbh naïve on our behalf. |  |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 20:34 - Apr 17 with 2255 views | Sharkey |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 18:39 - Apr 17 by FrimleyBlue |
It's not about stopping the clock it's breaking the game down when the opposition are on the attack. Look at the timings of their phantom injuries. Then team huddles at the dugouts. Get drinks down them. Have a breather and then back to the game against an unsettled side. Each injury they had in that 2nd half was when town had either an opportunity ( aluko/gk) or when town started to get back into the half ( norwood elbow). We didn't even try it despite having Rotherham all over us for 50 minutes |
That’s pretty much what I said, I thought. | | | |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 23:41 - Apr 17 with 2112 views | Garv |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 18:35 - Apr 17 by Sharkey |
I cannot see how stopping the clock would help at all. People do this thing to stop the opposition getting up a head of steam, not because they think the game will actually be shorter.
To my mind it’s something like something I read in the book Freakanomics many years ago. Kindergartens were sick of parents turning up late to pick up their kids so they introduced fines. Result? Parents turned up even later, because they didn’t need to feel guilty about it. There will be more and longer time-outs if stop-the-clock comes in.
The best way to get rid of this would be for fans to jeer their own team for time wasting. People have trains to catch after evening games ( which already start too late and half time seems to get longer and longer) - they don’t want their time wasted.
And interviewers should be harsher on coaches when they talk about ‘game management?’ ; e.g. Be this, do you mean gamesmanship and wasting the crowd’s time? |
It would help if the act of game management wasn't celebrated so much by the football media and commentary/punditry teams. |  |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 02:04 - Apr 18 with 2064 views | pointofblue |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 18:39 - Apr 17 by FrimleyBlue |
It's not about stopping the clock it's breaking the game down when the opposition are on the attack. Look at the timings of their phantom injuries. Then team huddles at the dugouts. Get drinks down them. Have a breather and then back to the game against an unsettled side. Each injury they had in that 2nd half was when town had either an opportunity ( aluko/gk) or when town started to get back into the half ( norwood elbow). We didn't even try it despite having Rotherham all over us for 50 minutes |
One way would be to ban players from approaching the bench during the break. Or perhaps the players from the opposition team can but not the players from the team who have cause the stoppage due to ‘injury’. | |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 08:21 - Apr 18 with 1977 views | Sharkey |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 23:41 - Apr 17 by Garv |
It would help if the act of game management wasn't celebrated so much by the football media and commentary/punditry teams. |
imagine snooker or darts interviewers saying 'you must be very proud of your game management and the way that you managed to slow the game to an absolute snail's pace' . | | | |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:08 - Apr 18 with 1897 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 08:21 - Apr 18 by Sharkey |
imagine snooker or darts interviewers saying 'you must be very proud of your game management and the way that you managed to slow the game to an absolute snail's pace' . |
They do talk about it in darts actually. When you remove your darts from the board slower, drop darts on the floor, take a longer drinks break. Coughing. Walking back down the oche not next to it etc etc | |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:25 - Apr 18 with 1872 views | gloucester_tractor |
It would appear the way to play against Ipswich is to have ball in air as much as possible and a player on the floor needing treatment
In the last 30 mins of games it's so poor to watch
The number of time Taylor told zaha to get up yesterday is the way to do it
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:57 - Apr 18 with 1853 views | Sharkey |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:08 - Apr 18 by FrimleyBlue |
They do talk about it in darts actually. When you remove your darts from the board slower, drop darts on the floor, take a longer drinks break. Coughing. Walking back down the oche not next to it etc etc |
But they wouldn't allow darts players to smugly praise themselves for this, in the way that managers are allowed to say quite blithely " I thought we managed the game very well " when they mean "we managed to get away with successfully ruining the spectacle for everyone in attendance". | | | |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:58 - Apr 18 with 1847 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:57 - Apr 18 by Sharkey |
But they wouldn't allow darts players to smugly praise themselves for this, in the way that managers are allowed to say quite blithely " I thought we managed the game very well " when they mean "we managed to get away with successfully ruining the spectacle for everyone in attendance". |
Oh I see what you mean, no its not that usual. Anderson has once laughed about winding price up but every one loves winding him up. | |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 13:10 - Apr 18 with 1770 views | Stu_Magoo |
Good Lord, that was depressing circle-jerk of a read. 🤢 |  |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 15:12 - Apr 18 with 1708 views | Vic |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 10:28 - Apr 17 by FrimleyBlue |
You would have thought after seeing them do it even before scoring, town would have woken up to how to do it why on earth did we not when they were all over us. We just kept going and given them the ball to come at us again and again and again. KM talks about players not managing games.. well teach them how to |
I r3ckon you’ve hit on something there Frimmers - give him a call because I doubt a poor coach like him will have thought of it. |  |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 15:16 - Apr 18 with 1698 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 15:12 - Apr 18 by Vic |
I r3ckon you’ve hit on something there Frimmers - give him a call because I doubt a poor coach like him will have thought of it. |
You jest. But why aren't we doing it Vic. It's not just KM obviously. We haven't done it under any recent manager. No its not pretty, but it's effective. | |
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| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 20:11 - Apr 18 with 1613 views | quad |
Leaves a nasty taste in the mouth with all the sour grapes.
Rotherham were always going to score against us at some point if we didn't get the first goal. We couldn't do it so we lost. Of course they are going to try every feigning injury and sh*thousery tactic they can to try and get the win they needed. They're in a battle for an automatic promotion spot FFS. Can we really complain about it? Really??!! | | | |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 03:32 - Apr 19 with 1530 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Thinking of Rotherham's players this morning on 08:21 - Apr 18 by Sharkey |
imagine snooker or darts interviewers saying 'you must be very proud of your game management and the way that you managed to slow the game to an absolute snail's pace' . |
I'm not a snooker fan, but people have been called out for game management / time wasting. Ebdon comes to mind, but I may be wrong on the person specifically. |  |
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