County Grounds with Electronic ScoreBoards

[drici]

Casement Park has an electronic scoreboard with the time counting up in seconds which is visible to all unless you're sitting up at the very back of the ardán slightly behind one of the metal efforts that hold the roof up.
In the first Round of the National Football League matches Antrim were leading Sligo 1-12 to 0-14 after the announced 4 minutes of time added on had elapsed.
After 39 minutes and twenty seconds on the scoreboard a large group of children and teenagers who were sitting together and appeared to be from the one club began shouting to the Antrim players (who had possesssion of the ball at the time but were not making much progress in midfield) to kick the ball out(of play).
This spread until most of the Antrim supporters were shouting/screaming variations of the same. The players caught on and at 39 minutes and 34 seconds one of them turned and booted it towards the stand and out of play to a massive cheer and the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
Now Sligo could have done similar if the scoreline had been reversed though it is unlikely that the amount of supporters they had at the match would have been able to alert them to take advantage of the new rule.
What percentage of County Grounds would have electronic scoreboards which count up in seconds and thus can give an advantage to teams who are leading by a catchable score at the end of a game?

[Dougal]

Is it not a minimum amount of minutes?so it's stil up to the ref whether the time is up or not.anyway im sure it would take 1 min for a manager to tell his players to make your teammates aware of if the time is up or not,id imagine a team mate would be more effective than a couple of hundred suporter al shouting.

[johnneycool]

surely the scoreboard clock is totally independent of the referee's timing and if for whatever reason if he decided that more than the 4 minutes he'd initially indicated was to be played he's well within his rights to do so.

Why kick the ball out, it isn't rugby?

[Celt_Man]

surely the scoreboard clock is totally independent of the referee's timing and if for whatever reason if he decided that more than the 4 minutes he'd initially indicated was to be played he's well within his rights to do so.

Why kick the ball out, it isn't rugby?

One of the new experimental rules.... the referee can't blow full time until the ball goes out of play after the injury time has finished

[johnneycool]

surely the scoreboard clock is totally independent of the referee's timing and if for whatever reason if he decided that more than the 4 minutes he'd initially indicated was to be played he's well within his rights to do so.

Why kick the ball out, it isn't rugby?

One of the new experimental rules.... the referee can't blow full time until the ball goes out of play after the injury time has finished

shows how much i know.

is it the same for hurling?

[Canalman]

Problem Celt Man is that players don't know whether the ref wiill instead of blowing game up award a sideline kick (for example) to your opponents. No transparency (apologies for use of buzzword) at the moment.

[cornafean]

surely the scoreboard clock is totally independent of the referee's timing and if for whatever reason if he decided that more than the 4 minutes he'd initially indicated was to be played he's well within his rights to do so.

Why kick the ball out, it isn't rugby?

One of the new experimental rules.... the referee can't blow full time until the ball goes out of play after the injury time has finished

That rule doesn't apply in Longford.

[Celt_Man]

surely the scoreboard clock is totally independent of the referee's timing and if for whatever reason if he decided that more than the 4 minutes he'd initially indicated was to be played he's well within his rights to do so.

Why kick the ball out, it isn't rugby?

One of the new experimental rules.... the referee can't blow full time until the ball goes out of play after the injury time has finished

shows how much i know.

is it the same for hurling?

yea same for hurling

[Celt_Man]

Problem Celt Man is that players don't know whether the ref wiill instead of blowing game up award a sideline kick (for example) to your opponents. No transparency (apologies for use of buzzword) at the moment.

Yep I agree it happened in the McKenna Cup final, Donegal winning by 2 and their keeper kicked the ball out over the sideline from a kick out on instruction from the line, then ref let the sideline ball be taken, tyrone got a point and then it was over... some craic they had of scored a goal

[JUst retired]

2 mins before normal time elapses, the linesman is told by the ref,how long he intends to play extra. The announcer then tells the spectators there will be at least say 2 mins. If subs are brought on in that time the ref can allow 1/2 min per sub, to prevent time wasting. It is down to ref, how long he plays after that, I think the ball dead rule is a farce and  should not be kept.

[gerry]

Same happen today at the tyrone match when the monaghan player kicked the ball out of bounds and the ref still played on.  What a farce of a rule.

[Gold]

Tony Scullion humped it over the stand after a quick look at the clock last night.
Kerry made a ballix of it.

the ball never came back, he kicked it clean over!

[drici]

Paul Hearty boots the ball out of play in the last of the one score could change the result finishes.


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