Effing timewasting

Complete wankers. There’s game management then there’s being idiotic. I make that Hull, Bristol City, Sheffield Wed all from trying to be too clever.

sam3110 said:

FishCostaFortune said:

sam3110 said:

FishCostaFortune said:

sam3110 said:

I hate it so much, it bites you on the arse so often and tonight really shows it up. I'm almost glad we have lost to a goal because of it, because I'm hoping it means we won't do it anymore, and just continue playing football until the last second.

Every team does it. Think there are more pressing issues for why we lost the game this game then that. 

Not tonight there's not, we lost tonight because we time wasted to a degree where the referee added on an extra minute in added time and they scored as a result. If we just played the 4 minutes of injury time normally we come away with a draw, despite the fact that we were poor tonight

The games not played in the last 4 minutes mate. 

But it was 0-0 until the 95th minute, so the game was lost in the last few minutes due to our ridiculous time wasting, not sure you're getting the point here buddy

I get the point you're trying to make.

Once again. Literally every team ever time wastes when they think the current result is going to benefit them. This happens before and during injury time. Look at Preston at our place, they basically started this from the moment the second half started.

The majority of the time this never really bites anyone in the ass, however its happened to us multiple times this season as our defence has not been good enough to deal with teams pumping long balls into the box at the end of a game.

For me the bigger issue here is Bowyer's fear of letting us be a little more open and playing more attacking football. Yes 5-3-2 keeps us competative in games when teams are trying to pass it through us, but it offers us nothing going forward and falls about when teams starting going more and more direct at us.

Whether teams score in that 4th minute or the the 94th minute we are going to continue to lose games if we play so negatively. We were kept in this game until the 94th minute by a combination of Phillips (as usual) and Foresteri being awful and making poor decision after poor decision.

For me time wasting/slowing the game down/'game managment' are the least of our issues. Our constant being overrun in midfield, and inability to pass the ball through the lines because of our negative formation need to be addressed first.

How many times this game did a defensive clearence end up going to a Wednesday player? I lost count. 

Sage said:

Bowyer says we go into every game trying to win it. Tonight we didn’t, no matter what anything he says. So much time wasting and ridiculous tactics. Trying to protect a point when a draw is no good on its own anyway is pathetic. I’m always optimistic but tonight I’m bitterly disappointed.

Hmm straight away disagree with him there

He said very early in the season that we wouldnt take stupid chances and that every point would be greatly appreciated

It was only when we were safe did he feel that we'd potentially take more risks with winning games

Cafc43v3r said:

Time wasting, tactics, blah blah blah

What ever else happens you should never conced a goal from a free kick by the opposite corner flag.  That was shocking, the only difference from  the Hull goal was the free kick was 40 yards further away.  Unlike the Hull and Huddersfield games we got what we deserved from that, nothing.

If you defend like that be it the 1st minute or last minute tactics matter not one jot. 

You could see the fear of loosing last night, that's not something I have often seen in a Bowyer team. 

We didnt concede from a free kick down by the opposition corner flag