I was pleased to see we didn't give the ball back after the Wrexham player kicked it out so their player could get treated for cramp. Why should we?
We really enjoyed the match which was brilliant entertainment. I thought Ryan Fraser was our man of the match but was impressed by Charles and Quashie. Thought Ronnie Edwards looked like a crap Vestergaard. Have to say that I did feel Wrexham were the better side in the first half. Windlass was superb and I think that they should have wrapped the game up at half time.. We were lucky that their forward was unjured as this changed the match. From then on, I thought Wrexham ran out of steam. We dominated from that point. I thought the free kick was exceptional and Bazunu's save prevented Wrexham taking all three points. It was inevitable that the winner would follow the equaliser. In summary, I thought this was a match thst showed British football at it,s most exciting but the result papered over defensive frailties and a toothless attack. However it was brilliant base from which to build. Move entertainment in this match than the whole of last season.
Obviously Wrexham time wasted whenever they could but one thing I really noticed was how quick the keeper had to release the ball when he had it in his hands. The referee was giving him a 5 second countdown and if he doesn't release it it's a corner. I think it's a really good rule change at this level. Now they need to fix the time wasting at goal kicks.
Can see them being hot on it for the first few games of the season then it fading out. Like the time wasting at throw ins or whatever it was last season where there felt like a booking a game because of it in the first few weeks
I can think of a number of examples where we were losing around the 75-80 minute mark, and we won. But not if you mean still losing on, say, 88 minutes.
Yes but this isn't decision making for a challenge, it's an actual law that they have to follow. If they don't they will get picked up on it. Refs are consistent about knowledge of the rules.
I suspect the "latest" of those examples would be the Liverpool comeback under Koeman, when we were still losing until something like the 82nd minute.
True, except, didn’t the rule before already said keepers’s had six seconds to release the ball or it was an indirect free kick?
True, but the reason why this new rule was brought in is that the award of a corner is a fairer way of penalising the keeper and it will actually be enforced by referees,
