The game I watch today is far removed from that I watched several decades ago, let me expand.
Tactics and fitness are two of the things that have changed remarkably, teams adapt to different situations by varying their tactical formation and when it comes to fitness, long gone (I hope) are the days when the players could be seen having a fag and a pint are gone.
But one thing irks me about the game as it stands today.
Every time I tune in to watch a live game, which with the amount broadcast these days is quite regularly, I cannot help but hear the words, time management.
They seem to be mentioned when players are running the clock down when they’re leading, by delaying tactics which include:
• Substitutions
• Holding on to the ball when a decision has gone against them
• Keeping the ball by playing across the back-line
• Keepers catching the ball and then falling onto it to kill valuable seconds
And there are of course others, please feel free to mention them in the comment facility beneath this article to enlighten me further.
Naturally, if you are supporting the team that is winning, every one of them is appreciated by the supporters even if, I feel, they are detrimental to the game and quite often cheered to the rafters.
Looking on from a neutral point of view such actions could be deemed as time wasting, something the referees are, quite rightly, clamping down on this season, hence the increase, especially at the end of the second half, of stoppage time.
So, am I right to ask is there really any difference between game management and time wasting?
Let the debate begin!
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No issues on time management, breaking tempo and pressure is part of the game, it is dissent that frustrates me.
Enforce bookings each and everytime someone hoofs the ball away after the whistle, holding the ball ans walking away after a decision against you etc… It will soon disappear, just as player know not to take shirts off celebrating, a simple and consistent rhetoric needed in enforcement until no longer part of the match.
Of course there isn’t mh, it’s like everything else. Don’t use old fashioned terms. This is the technological age make with new office speak. You know managers an coaches now use sky blue thinking. Mission statements and the like. By the way can you tell me the difference between a manager an a coach. Cos I’m damd if I do I thought they did the same job. Maybe our readers or Alan will know. 😂😂😂😂😂
I thought coaches were what the players arrived on to the ground? But good point CW
Of course Steve silly me. I must be getting old if it wasn’t a coach. It was a rail coach that takes me back lol
as long as you have got a hole up your a#se, teams will use delaying tactics. as steve says, if your team are winning its fine, but so annoying if you are losing. its second nature, but goalies seem to get more yellow cards. i think some refs need a yellow card, and then a red if they continue to make s#it decisions. i prefer the term manager, as that looks after all aspects of a players care, where a coach is concentrated on tactics etc. COYH
Hi all, I think the term “head coach” stems from the foreign side of the game. Overseas don’t use the term manager. So basically it’s just a title, no difference….and I agree if your winning ” game management ” is ok, if your losing its annoying…
Hi Alan, I love being faciscious this article was calling out for it😂 I think we all needed a laugh
Having just read njs comments about Cardiff an from what others have said about his comments about us fans. It does make me wonder what’s in his head at the moment. One minute signing a long contract. Then saying never say never to joining going to Cardiff. Very mixed message.
16 th October 2002 game Wales v Italy score 2-1 Wales in the team Pembridge and hartson. What team produced them luton town and at the time its youth programme. What’s different now no Scots Welsh or Irish boys found by scouts an brought to the club.
McJannett out with U19’s at minute… Was he scouted before the changes CW?
No he’s a local lad. As was Justin. We don’t have anyone brought in from further than about 30 mls Steve.
Thanks Chris