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Author Topic: Added time or Stop the Clock!  (Read 5642 times)

Offline UK Redsox

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #15 on: August 05, 2023, 07:53:57 PM »
Just like after the World Cup, playing full added time will be forgotten about after a couple of weeks

Offline algy

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #16 on: August 05, 2023, 07:59:01 PM »
Stop the clock is more transparent, as long as everyone can see when the clock's running and when it isn't.

Offline pablo_picasso

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #17 on: August 05, 2023, 09:22:55 PM »
Stop the clock.

Adding on at the end is too open to giving Man U or Liverpool 3 mins at the end if they are 1-0 up, but 15 mins if they are 0-1 down...

Offline Exeter 77

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #18 on: August 05, 2023, 10:07:15 PM »
Stop the clock but with an independent timekeeper.

Online Brazilian Villain

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #19 on: August 05, 2023, 10:53:08 PM »
Just like after the World Cup, playing full added time will be forgotten about after a couple of weeks

Most likely, and preferable to "Our 85th minute Emi Martinez time wasting intermission is brought to you by Budweiser. Budweiser....the King of Beers."

Online eamonn

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #20 on: August 05, 2023, 11:03:54 PM »
Solving a problem that doesn't exist.

The gap between actual playing time in some games can apparently from 48 to 58 mins approx,  which really shouldn't be the case.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #21 on: August 05, 2023, 11:06:06 PM »
Out of the 2 stop the clock is better. I prefer it as it is though, it's the done thing to bitch about how much/little time they've added.

Offline dicedlam

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #22 on: August 06, 2023, 09:38:21 AM »
If we had to to make a choice then I would prefer stopping the clock, so long that it is transparent for all to see.

Online paul_e

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #23 on: August 07, 2023, 12:56:18 PM »
I prefer stopping the clock to adding ridiculous amounts of injury time but it's a problem that I don't think is urgent to solve in the majority of games.

Online trinityoap

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #24 on: August 07, 2023, 01:15:24 PM »
With stop the clock the official clock would have to be visible to all in the ground with obvious exemptions for Manure, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City and presumably now Newcastle.

Offline Simon Page

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #25 on: August 07, 2023, 01:28:33 PM »
It would just give something else for players and managers to try to manipulate, and everyone to gripe over. Just play to the whistle.

Offline wince

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #26 on: August 07, 2023, 06:31:11 PM »
Stop all the clocks give the dog a juicy bone……WH Auden rules 😂

Offline ADVILLAFAN

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #27 on: August 07, 2023, 06:33:55 PM »
Stop the Clock(s). Brilliant poem....

Offline astonvilla82

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #28 on: August 07, 2023, 06:59:50 PM »
Good idea is for the managers to tell their players stop cheating

Online eamonn

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Re: Added time or Stop the Clock!
« Reply #29 on: August 07, 2023, 07:04:44 PM »
What about the time-wasting that will invariably happen in the large amount of stoppage time already granted - will that be added on too ?

 


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