The second halves kicking off 12 minutes apart is a disgrace to common sense

[sturutter]

Look, it is so important to acknowledge all of the following before making the point. 

 

- We, clearly, have only ourselves to blame.

- We were  ultimately thrown FOUR lifelines- Cardiff, Luton, Swansea and Birmingham all threw us a favour,  meaning that we had a chance we didn't deserve.

- Overall, luck fell massively in our favour. We weren't good enough to take it.

 

However, those things being true shouldn't stop us from being able to make this point in the title. 

 

It is absolute common sense, and such an easy rule to implement, to make sure the second half of the crucial connected games kick off at the same time. Why? Because information from one game being finished well before the other can of course be crucial. Even the first half of the Rotherham game kicked off 3 minutes before us, which is such poor organisation.

 

To reiterate, this is not a complaint that we got unlucky. In fact, we have been overall LUCKY, and still finished bottom. However, the rule to sychronise the start of the second halves is so easy, and should be so clear.  This is how the timeline would have been had the games been playing at the same time.

 

78 mins (at both Derby and Cardiff)- Derby make it 3-3. However, if the games are happening simultaneously,  it is at this point 1-0 to Rotherham, and remains so for TEN minutes. So, that is a ten minutes that would have played out with Derby thinking they had to win. Our chances of making it 4-3 ourselves would have been improved if Derby had thought that they desperately needed a goal themselves. 

 

In reality, on 81 minutes in our game, Waghorn was able to get the clear message to his teammates that the Rotherham game was over , and so they could spend the last 15 minutes defending, something they would never have been able to do.

 

It probably wouldn't have saved us, but it is a complete failure  by the league to not implement the easiest of rules.

[@owlstalk]

 

 

WTF

[S36 OWL]

1 minute ago, sturutter said:

Look, it is so important to acknowledge all of the following before making the point. 

 

- We, clearly, have only ourselves to blame.

- We were  ultimately thrown FOUR lifelines- Cardiff, Luton, Swansea and Birmingham all threw us a favour,  meaning that we had a chance we didn't deserve.

- Overall, luck fell massively in our favour. We weren't good enough to take it.

 

However, those things being true shouldn't stop us from being able to make this point in the title. 

 

It is absolute common sense, and such an easy rule to implement, to make sure the second half of the crucial connected games kick off at the same time. Why? Because information from one game being finished well before the other can of course be crucial. Even the first half of the Rotherham game kicked off 3 minutes before us, which is such poor organisation.

 

To reiterate, this is not a complaint that we got unlucky. In fact, we have been overall LUCKY, and still finished bottom. However, the rule to sychronise the start of the second halves is so easy, and should be so clear.  This is how the timeline would have been had the games been playing at the same time.

 

78 mins (at both Derby and Cardiff)- Derby make it 3-3. However, if the games are happening simultaneously,  it is at this point 1-0 to Rotherham, and remains so for TEN minutes. So, that is a ten minutes that would have played out with Derby thinking they had to win. Our chances of making it 4-3 ourselves would have been improved if Derby had thought that they desperately needed a goal themselves. 

 

In reality, on 81 minutes in our game, Waghorn was able to get the clear message to his teammates that the Rotherham game was over , and so they could spend the last 15 minutes defending, something they would never have been able to do.

 

It probably wouldn't have saved us, but it is a complete failure  by the league to not implement the easiest of rules.

 

 

[areNOTwhatTHEYseem]

Give it a rest, Dejphon.

 

[FreshOwl]

How can you stop injuries? 
 

is this guy for real!?  

[sherlyegg]

What if the injuries happened in the 2nd half

[sturutter]

It can at the same time be  true that we have been a disgrace, deserve no luck, and that the point still stands.

[McRightSide]

What an OP

 

The fact that Derby didn’t need to attack us should have helped us...since we knew the threat of attack with much lower.

 

Problem was we had Pelupessy ball juggling on the halfway line for most of the last 15 mins 

[sturutter]

Just now, sherlyegg said:

What if the injuries happened in the 2nd half

Then that is uncontrollable, but they can at least control what they can. Exact same kick off times for the second time is the obvious rule. 

[Guest whowantstoberich]

Anyone lend me a straw?

[sturutter]

Just now, McRightSide said:

What an OP

 

The fact that Derby didn’t need to attack us should have helped us...since we knew the threat of attack with much lower.

 

Problem was we had Pelupessy ball juggling on the halfway line for most of the last 15 mins 

No, if 10 minutes of 3-3 play out with Derby thinking they need to win, we definitey have a better chance of scoring in a stretched game.

[mildatheart67]

OP , nailed it.

[@owlstalk]

1 minute ago, mildatheart67 said:

OP , nailed it.

 

Christ almighty

[sturutter]

The fact that we have so much else to be angry about doesn't make this untrue. Someone give me a reason why the league shouldn't implement this easy rule?

[McRightSide]

6 minutes ago, sturutter said:

No, if 10 minutes of 3-3 play out with Derby thinking they need to win, we definitey have a better chance of scoring in a stretched game.

Like when we scored our 2nd you mean?

[Guest Theboylangers]

2 minutes ago, sturutter said:

The fact that we have so much else to be angry about doesn't make this untrue. Someone give me a reason why the league shouldn't implement this easy rule?

Jeff Stelling was having a whinge about this. 

I can see starting games at the exact same time but you can't control what happens during the game.

 

For that reason, I'm out. 

[Nut]

12 minutes ago, sturutter said:

No, if 10 minutes of 3-3 play out with Derby thinking they need to win, we definitey have a better chance of scoring in a stretched game.

If Derby had carried on attacking at 3 3 they would have scored again. We were all over the place at 3 2. 

[sturutter]

11 minutes ago, Theboylangers said:

Jeff Stelling was having a whinge about this. 

I can see starting games at the exact same time but you can't control what happens during the game.

 

For that reason, I'm out. 

 I think the second half is common sense,  but getting even the first half out by 3 minutes is so poor.

[alanharper]

The players knew we had to win, nothing else was an option.

 

We failed to win. 

[Guest Theboylangers]

3 minutes ago, sturutter said:

 I think the second half is common sense,  but getting even the first half out by 3 minutes is so poor.

I can't disagree with you. Shouldn't be that difficult but seems it is.