What's with the water breaks?

[McGrathsipan]

Whos idea was this?
I mean it's not as if its baking hot.
The cynic in me thinks these are being eased in now before the inevitable sponsorship takes over and Sky and co get to ram another load of adds into the coverage in the middle of both halfs.

I dont like it at all.

 

[fergieisold]

It's annoying me already. Why are they doing it?!

 

[SirAnderson]

Feels dumb. Will let the fitness specialists give their reasons.

 

[Shane88]

Piss take.

 

[Raw]

Think it's to ease players in after the long break, right? It's fine for the first couple weeks but it'd be pretty ridiculous to have them for the rest of the season.

 

[Zlatattack]

It's June. It's likely to be warm. They probably built them. In to prevent dehydration.

 

[TheReligion]

Understand why they are doing them but really breaks up a team on top. United suffered from this the other night.

 

[OnlyTwoDaSilvas]

It's mad that they don't even stop the clock for it.

It feels like a lot of time is lost in the 2nd half of games with all the subs and the waterbreak, and goal kicks seem to be taking a lot longer too as keepers have to go and get the ball themselves, but there's no change in the amount of stoppage time being added on.

 

[RUCK4444]

Understand why they are doing them but really breaks up a team on top. United suffered from this the other night.

Yeah agree with this, I would never use it as a type of excuse but we definitely lost momentum as the dominant team.

How its not added on to extra time I will never know.

Is this just during the Covid comeback period? This along with VAR and I think I would have to entertain watching Rugby instead

 

[TheReligion]

Yeah agree with this, I would never use it as a type of excuse but we definitely lost momentum as the dominant team.

How its not added on to extra time I will never know.

Is this just during the Covid comeback period? This along with VAR and I think I would have to entertain watching Rugby instead

Yeah temporary rule change

 

[Amar__]

Why the feck they don't stop the time?

 

[Berbasbullet]

Why the feck they don't stop the time?

Legit!

 

[RUCK4444]

Yeah temporary rule change

Cheers. Thank feck. Slowly the game seemed to be changing past all recognition.

Imagine they did phase it in for advertisers as another poster mentioned above! I would be livid.

 

[Wayne's World]

There's no need for it at all....I can understand once it's past 30 degrees but it's not exactly scorching in England right now

 

[Berbasbullet]

Neville just made me laugh “I respect the sports science side of things, but I gotta be honest... I hate it”.

 

[One Night Only]

Whos idea was this?
I mean it's not as if its baking hot.
The cynic in me thinks these are being eased in now before the inevitable sponsorship takes over and Sky and co get to ram another load of adds into the coverage in the middle of both halfs.

I dont like it at all.

Yeah I feel like that's where it is going to end up aswell.

 

[BarlowMoorRed]

Assumed it was to prevent the sharing of water bottles due to COVID. Rather than having water bottles at the side of the pitch and available for “sharing”, they have dedicated breaks where they can grab a bottle each?

Just my presumption - may well be wrong!!

 

[golden_blunder]

It's mad that they don't even stop the clock for it.

It feels like a lot of time is lost in the 2nd half of games with all the subs and the waterbreak, and goal kicks seem to be taking a lot longer too as keepers have to go and get the ball themselves, but there's no change in the amount of stoppage time being added on.

I like that goalkeepers have to get the ball. It’s a reminder that DeGea has working legs

 

[Nick7]

Fairly obvious after them not playing for ages.

 

[fps]

They can’t run around for 45 minutes without needing a break? Just how precious are we meant to think these players are now, they’re not all Gareth Bale.

 

[P-Ro]

In the Chelsea Villa game earlier, the Villa manager used it to give a 3 and a half minute team talk. 3 minutes were added on after the 45mins were up. It's just going to be used as a time wasting ploy by players and managers.

 

[McGrathsipan]

Cheers. Thank feck. Slowly the game seemed to be changing past all recognition.

Imagine they did phase it in for advertisers as another poster mentioned above! I would be livid.

Wouldn't surprise me.

Time outs next

 

[luke511]

Is this for the first gameweek only in the Prem or is it going to be used for the rest of the season? The waterbreak killed our momentum in both halves vs Tottenham.

 

[Globule]

When they were planning the restart for June/July I could understand them expecting hotter weather and water breaks being mooted as a fix for that. What I don't get is the blanket implementation of them. Why not let a decision be made before kick off.

 

[RUCK4444]

Wouldn't surprise me.

Time outs next

Ugghh please don’t, I feel ill just thinking of it

 

[McGrathsipan]

You wait and see sky getting ads in there.
It will happen like the quick adds in between boxing rounds and televised darts with big audiences.

Its nearly totally turned into "soccer" with 4 quarters.

 

[Sandikan]

It's June. It's likely to be warm. They probably built them. In to prevent dehydration.

Wondered how many posts we'd see before this very obvious answer came up!

 

[criticalanalysis]

I like that goalkeepers have to get the ball. It’s a reminder that DeGea has working legs

De Gea came out his box more times against Spurs than the previous 10 games before.

Unfortunately, it was behind the goal to retrieve the ball

 

[Brightonian]

The ref should make a decision with the coaches before the game to take or not take them, based on the weather conditions. In baking heat, sure. But I don't see any real point in cooler weather, and especially not in pouring rain.