To replace yellow cards. I can see where Pratinin is coming from, giving the benefit to the opposition when the offence takes place, do you agree? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25235277 What happens here should the scotch mutiny? Would this cede football to aliens?
Don't like the idea myself. The 'Home Nations' will be losing their privileges soon enough anyway, been on the cards.
I am not usually a fan of "borrowing" from other codes but it works well in rugby and gives a proper advantage to the other team. I like this idea though do worry that the advantage will always go in favour of big teams.
In GAA they are introducing a rule where a cynical foul means the perpetrator gets subbed off. I don't know how it'll work and it has a whole load of holes, but we'll see how we go. In football the sin bin could result in teams going ultra defensive for ten minutes. That could ruin the spectacle of a match. In rugby, it certainly hurts a side but as a possession game I don't think it kills a game.
In order for this to be implemented, amateur football and the like would have to do this as well. **** telling a 16 stone pissed up skinhead he needs to stand at the side for 15 minutes. What happens if a goalkeeper gets a booking? Not workable at all.
It would be a lot fairer than the current system where the fouled team can be doubly disadvantaged. However, ML makes a good point about goalkeepers. Maybe a prenominated outfield player could be sin-binned instead.
I take the point about the goalkeeper but why would sending a 16 stone skinhead to the sideline for 15 minutes be any different to actually sending him off?
It would be impossible to implement. How many watches are lower level refs going to need to have? A watch for each player in the sin bin. We could end up with a team having 5 players booked at one point in the game, and therefore the game having to be abandoned (7 is the least number of players a team can have in 11s). It is a seriously flawed plan. I can understand the reasoning behind it, but yellow cards are often given as warnings to calm down. It would clamp down on dissent though, especially at amateur level.
I get the concerns at amateur level but think it would work well in the professional game - as you say it would definitely cut down on dissent. I like Rebel's one about the forced substitutions in the GAA - how funny would that be if the opposition's manager was allowed to nominate the player to come on?
Sebo would have got a lot more game time for Rangers if that was in place I honestly think it would ruin the game of football. They should just stick to changing the offside rule every ****ing year.
