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Time should stop after goals ideally, the other approach can be exploited but it's probably a mute point.
Tapped in subs or not has pros and cons, I prefer the tapped in approach as it means there is less disparity for falling off your bike in different parts of the court (for example, benches neat the defensive end would encourage defenders to avoid worrying about coming off their bike and possibly play like dicks as they can be easily subbed off). But if subs have to tap in anyway then it's not such an issue (but I'd ensure either the player coming off must be "in play", or that the subbed in player has to tap).
After goals the ref would have to consult the team captains (are you ready?) before resuming play, but this could be pretty slow, why not just encourage live subs and state there will be no additional stoppage for subs after a goal has been scored, this is not the convention though (most of the time you have a big delay until the teams are ready to go, or you have to restart the game because a team wasn't "ready" as they were making a sub, yawn).