BERNIE Vince says he’s not in favour of having a countdown clock on the scoreboard at venues, following Melbourne’s two-point loss to St Kilda in the dying stages at Etihad Stadium on Sunday.

Although Vince said “it would’ve been nice to have it on the weekend”, he added there was no need to bring it in.

“No, footy’s been going for too long [to start having a countdown clock],” he said at AAMI Park on Monday.

“I don’t think they’ll change it for one game.”

Vince reaffirmed that the players didn’t know how much time was remaining in the match, after teammate Jeremy Howe put the Demons up by four points, with just 41 seconds remaining.

But he added that “there was a lot of things we could’ve done” to prevent St Kilda’s Leigh Montagna kicking the winning goal with just 19 seconds remaining.

“There was 24 and a half minutes gone and each quarter had gone over 30 minutes, but there wasn’t a lot of goals scored in the last quarter,” he said.

“You don’t sit there at the centre bounce and go ‘how many goals have been scored and how long have we got?’ You just play footy.

“Until the runner comes out and tells us that, I honestly thought there was three or four minutes left. We would’ve changed things, if we knew that.”