they did know Noble was shouting how much time was left to his players

i usually bring my stopwatch to the game and there was exatley 7 mins and 55 secs of injury time in the second half

Call me old school but IMO Real time clocks at games are not a part of traditional RL in this country. It's yet another 'innovation' shamelessly copied by Sky after they saw it in Australia and it ruins the last five minutes of tight games when most of the time people spend most time looking at the clock rather than what is going on in the field of play.

Play for 80 minutes flat out as we did for 100+ years and let the timekeepers worry about how long is left. Watch the last 5 minutes of the 1985 Challenge cup final to see what the end of a game should really be like.

Would that mean it could be 9.50 in Abram & Platt Bridge then