(01-19-2025, 06:21 PM)Josh1873 Wrote: This injury rule hasn't stopped the fake injuries, or the slowing down of the game.
Ultimately it's impossible to tell if an injury is fake or genuine. The rule needs scrapping, and if a player is deemed fit by the medical staff, then he should be on the pitch for the restart.
Play acting and time wasting is sadly part of the game. I don't think any rule will stamp it out. What's the alternative? Tell refs to play on and ignore players they suspect are play-acting?
What, then, happens if there's a genuine injury, and the ref plays on believing it to be an act?
Cynical fouls and time wasting/injury time really grind my gears
The time elapsed in the game should be visible to all, and stopped by the ref when a player is down. The time is started by the ref when the player gets back up or goes off the pitch for treatment. If this is the result of a foul, yellow card the offending player and sin-bin them for 10 minutes.
Or....
If a player goes down injured where no foul looks to have been committed (i.e. when an 'injury' stops the player from continuing) even if no physios come on the pitch the time is stopped until the player goes off, they are kept off for a minute and then are allowed to re-enter the field of play. The only exception to this would be to substitute the player that's gone down. If this happens the clock is stopped until the substitution is made. The time elapsed is visible to both teams in this example as well.
This would also allow the game to be stopped at 90 minutes, rather than playing any injury time and also past any 'additional' time just because a team is in an attacking position. Think the goal scored by the Liverpool keeper against us in the 95th minute of injury time when only 4 minutes were added with no reason to stop the clock during the 4 minutes.....so frustrating.
Games would initially go on for ages, with Managers moaning about 'my players were tired, playing 100 minutes etc etc' but they would only be playing for 90 mins, as the clock would show this.
Other rule changes......
Personally I would like to see every cynical foul given a straight red with a three match ban.
Also where a player commits a deliberate foul that results in the injury of another (think that twat Ballard) the fouling player should be banned for the length of time that the injured player is not available for their team.
As for Keepers, they would be given 15 seconds to get the ball back in play (20 seconds for a goal kick). Any breach of this would result in a yellow card. This would stop the 'catching the ball and falling to the floor' shit we see all the time.
The same length of time would be given for throw ins. If the 15 seconds elapses, the throw in is given to the other side. Assistant refs could also be given that spray they use in free kicks to indicate where the throw should be taken from. If a player is seen to be trying to gain an unfair advantage by going past this point when throwing the ball in, the throw in is awarded to the other team.
It would only take a season to sort out all the shitty behaviour.
