Possible Clues:

• Hang about looking black
• Don't go and get yourself on the pitch
• Don't go and get pitch all over yourself
• Famous novel by Patrick Kavanagh - '. . . . . Flynn'
• Wait - only to be covered in pitch
• Linger longer
• Don't go and get pitched, perhaps
• Hot and sticky wait?
• Like fresh road surface perhaps not to split
• Stay smeared with viscid substance