David King's left-field plan to reduce length of quarters

David King has proposed an alternative to reducing the lengths of quarters, following several pre-season matches that blew out beyond two hours. The game has returned to 20 minute quarters in 2021, after the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic saw terms shrink to 16 minutes plus time on in 2020. “The goal gaps, not the game are responsible for (it running) 131 minutes," King told SEN's Whateley. “It’s crept up a little bit. Last year we had fewer goals, shorter games so we all said okay,...

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3 years ago, SEN

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