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Date Posted: Sun, February 22 2009, 10:48:09 GMT-10
Author: Frank Samyia
Subject: Time off in the last 5 minutes

Greetings all and welcome back for season 2009. My first suggestion for this season is to do something about the ridiculous farce that occurs towards the end of a game where players race to pack a scrum - I actually saw a situation yesterday in a junior reps game where a half back with ball in hand stuck his head into the lock forwards position before the referee blew time out.

After watching an entire season of NFL on TEN HD and after seeing this yesterday, here is my proposal, based very loosely on what happens in the NFL.

My suggestion is for the official game clock to stop automatically for every stoppage in play or everytime the ball goes out of play in the last 5 minutes of the second half. So for situations like a knock on, ball going into touch, ball kicked dead, try scored etc the clock stops automatically. The referee then waves time back on at the appropriate time. This will eliminate the scrum farce or other time wasting situations such as a goal line dropout or a kick off from a team in front. No one can then be accused of wasting time. It is only for the last 5 minutes and it won't add that much more time to the game. I do think it would help to clean up some of these ugly situations which are a blight on the game.

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Re: Time off in the last 5 minutes -- Greg Pfeiffer, Sun, February 22 2009, 19:44:15 GMT-10