Why do they need to consult them lol? The players and managers are the ones that they're working against with these rules, because it's them that are wasting the time. The commentators were also very dumb about it during the match, it was made clear that the rules are about all the little ways players waste time, from goal celebrations to throw ins to people being slow when they're subbed off, but the commentators were talking about how there weren't injuries. Painfully annoying

He says this now, because the new focus (not even a rule change) hurt him. Once he's on the other side he'll be complaining that not enough time was added due to time wasting.