Was Preston's cheating the low (or is it high) watermark for time wasting.


Referees are constantly taken the piss out of, they don't seem to be able or don't have the inclination to stop it. What can be done as it's ruining the game as a whole? Maybe it needs a few players to be sent off for cheating and it might eventually stop. Adding more time on at the end would be a start but that doesn't stop the game fragmenting and momentum being lost due to time wasting. It's endemic and pathetic and Preston's antics tonight encapsulated the very worst of it.
 
I generally don't kick off about a bit gamesmanship - well aware that we do it when it's in our favour.

But Preston was despicable tonight, was truly horrific.

And it leaves the referee in a position where's the nowt he can do.
 
I hate it when the keeper has been booked for time wasting and then continues to do it with no consequences.
Referees turn their backs to the keeper so they “ apppear “ not to be watching the continuing “ gamesmanship “while the crowd goes nuts-I wish just once a ref would give a keeper a second yellow or at least face the issue head on-( It’s spoiling the game and Preston’s antics had to be a directive of their msnager tonight -shocking that and from a team who has little to play for )
 
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That bellend got up then started rolling around holding his face. Then another went down. Then another. Then subbed 1 off and he didn't even leave the field.

If the ref gets some sort of control it would help. Start dishing cards out for blatant cheating and time wasting. That was worse than some of the shit we had to put up with in League 1.
 
That bellend got up then started rolling around holding his face. Then another went down. Then another. Then subbed 1 off and he didn't even leave the field.

If the ref gets some sort of control it would help. Start dishing cards out for blatant cheating and time wasting. That was worse than some of the shit we had to put up with in League 1.
To be honest their olayers and in particular their manager should be embarrassed-no way would I wish to see safc do that
Karma maybe but still a joke
 
Referees are constantly taken the piss out of, they don't seem to be able or don't have the inclination to stop it. What can be done as it's ruining the game as a whole? Maybe it needs a few players to be sent off for cheating and it might eventually stop. Adding more time on at the end would be a start but that doesn't stop the game fragmenting and momentum being lost due to time wasting. It's endemic and pathetic and Preston's antics tonight encapsulated the very worst of it.
To be fair I think thw referee delt with it well making their players go off even though he didn't need treatment. However he should have booked him the second he got up and the same for the other lad that sat down multiple times.

Totally lost any credibility as a referee after that.

Also in addition to that time wasting wise. 9 minutes is 20% of the half and he didn't play any extra after the 9 mins. Even though the ball went out bang on 90 mins and it was 90:37 before they took the goal kick. And they had a couple more goal kicks during added time.
 
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When they did it the crowd and our players reacted which is to us scoring. If they hadn’t, they would have won as we did not look like scoring in a month of Sundays
I'm not sure I agree with this. They did it because we were finally getting on top, had jaut made 4 good crosses and had just won the ball back to go again. The games momentum had swung in our favour which is why they started the time wasting. Shame we never got a winner like
 
Time to work out what the average time the ball is in play in a selection of games where we’re confident there was no time wasting. Call that the new game length, stop the clock every time the ball goes out of play including throw ins free kicks injuries goals subs. No incentive to time waste, we play 33:42 seconds half regardless.
 

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