Time keeping
- Thread starter pdhmobile
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Law 7 requires the referee to make an allowance for the following:
"substitutions
assessment and/or removal of injured players
wasting time
disciplinary sanctions
medical stoppages permitted by competition rules e.g. ‘drinks’ breaks (which should not exceed one minute) and ‘cooling’ breaks (ninety seconds to three minutes)
delays relating to VAR ‘checks’ and ‘reviews’
goal celebrations
any other cause, including any significant delay to a restart (e.g. due to interference by an outside agent)"
So for each of these events I stop one of my watches (this is where I think we are headed here).
I have 1 watch that counts down which I stop and start. And the other runs up continuously. This protects me from user or technical malfunction. But allows me to know how long is remaining of the 45 and how much I am adding on.
So to answer the question:
Player down coach on is a stop event as above.
Ball retrieval is only if there is a significant delay. We do not operate a stop clock in football
Pretty much the same as JamesL, although I mostly look at time-wasting more than anything, including players that have delayed the restart. I use 2 watches: a smart watch that counts down and a Casio stopwatch that counts up. I stop the watch that counts up - the smart watch is left alone as that is the timekeeper as I may - on occasion, forget to restart the one I stop and that is my saviour. My one problem with adding time on is that usually in my level there will be other teams waiting to come on to the pitch for the next match, so it will be subs and time-wasting that I add on mostly.
I generally only ever stopped the watch it it was a stoppage that was clearly going to take a long time. Otherwise I'd just note the stoppages up and tally them up as we went along. That probably isn't best practice, but it stemmed from me stopping and forgetting to restart the watch so many times that I decided I'd be more accurate doing it manually.
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If your smart watch can run apps (otherwise it's not smart enouh), then there are plenty of smart paid or free apps out there for referees which address this very problem. Mine buzzes every 30 seconds if it is stopped mid game.
. Grassroots I'm only stopping my watch if there going to be clear delay in play or clear time-wasting when retrieving the ball.
The only time I've stopped my watch for a ball going out of play was when an u11 dribbled to the edge of the pitch and smashed it out as hard as they could, it was clearly timewasting as opposed to the ball just going out of play normally. Other than that, I'm enjoying the rest whilst the time keeps a-ticking!
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Brings back a memory of a game in my youth. I believe we were playing with only 8 on 11. 14U maybe? This was back in the days of only using one game ball, and there was a long asphalt playground next to the field that sloped slowly away from the field. We kept the game close by kicking the ball off and letting it roll away, with the ref never adding time or otherwise discouraging it. All he would have have had to do is say"I'm adding the time back every time you do that" and it would have stopped.
