Don't disagree with any of the above but I would say our time wasting a few seasons ago was legendary.........
As I've said earlier on this thread, we are as bad as any other team, but the point is that, these days all teams get away with murder regarding cheating and time wasting.
For what it's worth, although we weren't in the refs ear so much on Saturday, we certainly have been over the course of this season, and much more than last year. Moreover, Danny Rose dives around as much as Charlie Goode ever did and is always looking to try to "win" fouls (ie cheat). I don't know the exact rules on this and maybe the laws make it difficult for refs to deal with this. As Deepcut says, I'm sure most of us fans don't know all the ins and outs of the laws of the game. However, there's no doubt that far more players using the various froms of cheating (or game management as those who applaud it like to call it) and getting away with it than there used to be, and it's spoiling the game.
The match officials are partially to blame for this. They let far too many infringement pass that they have clearly seen. For eaxample, how is it possible for a linesman to allow a throw which went out of play next to where he's stood, be taken 10+ yards further up the pitch, without taking any action. Can we really assume he didn't notice? What kind of message does this inaction send out to the team that is cheating? This kind of thing happens several times every single game. Officials are far more lenient than they used to be with thiskind of behaviour.
Let's see throwers being pulled back to the right place EVERY time they try to cheat, be booked for repeat offences, more yellow cards given for diving, tiime-wasting and feigning injury, and all this nonsense would soon stop or at least be under control.
I'm often shouting for the Cobblers players to get on to the ref, because if our opponents are the only ones to do it, they gain an unfair advantage, because officials ARE influenced by it. That, however, isn't really what I would like to see. The real solution is for officials to get tougher on this kind of behaviour.
