When should the clock stop?

[balmain boy]

For as long as I can remember after a try is scored the clock continues to run for up to 75 seconds before the ref can then blow time off, if the kicker is taking an inordinate time to kick the goal. Now it appears that as soon as a try is scored time is stopped, restarts for a few seconds as the kicker shoots the ball and then stopped again immediately after the ball goes in or out.

This may not seem like much but in total it can add 15 mins to a game! If this is an official rule change (and I can't find any official or unofficial documentation of this change) it's a terrible, terrible change. Vlandys just wants the ball in play for 80 mins a week it seems. Players aren't allowed to slow the game down at any point, and pushing fitness levels and injuries are spiralling across the league as a result.

Can anyone confirm this official change?

 

[BAGNF05]

Last 5 mins they stop the clock. Recent change.

 

[hobbo1]

Last 5 mins they stop the clock. Recent change.

Apart from that it seems anything goes

 

[Cobarcats]

For as long as I can remember after a try is scored the clock continues to run for up to 75 seconds before the ref can then blow time off, if the kicker is taking an inordinate time to kick the goal. Now it appears that as soon as a try is scored time is stopped, restarts for a few seconds as the kicker shoots the ball and then stopped again immediately after the ball goes in or out.

This may not seem like much but in total it can add 15 mins to a game! If this is an official rule change (and I can't find any official or unofficial documentation of this change) it's a terrible, terrible change. Vlandys just wants the ball in play for 80 mins a week it seems. Players aren't allowed to slow the game down at any point, and pushing fitness levels and injuries are spiralling across the league as a result.

Can anyone confirm this official change?

I can't confirm this sorry but I have seen the same and wondered what the?
I don't want our game to end up like the Superbowl where it can take hours in a stop start affair [or basketball]
But I'd like to see time off on any occasion that the ball isn't in play.
This means, as I did the stop watch for fun last year in a roosters game the second half would have gone for 110min.
So you would have to refine that for...say scrums. Instead of having a scrum clock, call time off until the ball is cleared from scrum.
Same with dropouts, instead of having the kick clock, stop it.
I'm clutching at straws I know, but when your losing at the 13min mark, time goes so fast with little or no footy is played.
The side in front, if they deserve to win, should be able to win playing football and not by slowing the play down and expointing the rules

 

[balmain boy]

Last 5 mins they stop the clock. Recent change.

No, this is the entire match. For every try, the clock stops.

 

[balmain boy]

I can't confirm this sorry but I have seen the same and wondered what the?
I don't want our game to end up like the Superbowl where it can take hours in a stop start affair [or basketball]
But I'd like to see time off on any occasion that the ball isn't in play.
This means, as I did the stop watch for fun last year in a roosters game the second half would have gone for 110min.
So you would have to refine that for...say scrums. Instead of having a scrum clock, call time off until the ball is cleared from scrum.
Same with dropouts, instead of having the kick clock, stop it.
I'm clutching at straws I know, but when your losing at the 13min mark, time goes so fast with little or no footy is played.
The side in front, if they deserve to win, should be able to win playing football and not by slowing the play down and expointing the rules

Do we want our games going for 100 mins now? I get stopping the clock on the final minutes (even though this didn't happen to us when we were chasing the game earlier in the season) but stopping the clock too much makes us increasingly like the NFL

 

[Needaname]

Last 5 mins they stop the clock. Recent change.

I though it was only if the margin is close

 

[Needaname]

Pretty sure something was brought in a few years back. Even before the six agains and everything that vlandys introduced

 

[Cobarcats]

Do we want our games going for 100 mins now? I get stopping the clock on the final minutes (even though this didn't happen to us when we were chasing the game earlier in the season) but stopping the clock too much makes us increasingly like the NFL

Well that's what I just said, I don't want an NFL all day affair but I feel the game has too many flaws in time wasting.
If nothing is happening , why are we paying to watch....nothing.
Most time wasting is drop outs, scrum packing, but lately I've been seeing time wasting in play the balls, fetching balls, faking injury, captain's challenges, kicking for goals, kicking for touch.
I know it's not a problem so much if your in front by 13 with 9 to go because you have a few things at your disposal to wind the clock down.
You should compete till the end, the clock shouldn't save you. IMO

 

[balmain boy]

I though it was only if the margin is close

The clock stopped for all first half tries in our game today. So that's not the rule at all

 

[PJ_]

What did Jordan say?
"We never lose, we just run out of time"

 

[Needaname]

The clock stopped for all first half tries in our game today. So that's not the rule at all

There was one game, this round where Cummings stopped the clock, then a second later put time back on then 10 secs later stopped the clock again until the kicker set the ball then as he was walking back to get set, started the clock again.