I think it's wiped after the Leicester game, so if he gets booked on Saturday it's a 2-match ban. If he avoids it then he's safe. It'd be a shame if he did pick up the ban after surviving on 9 yellows for 2 and a half months. I wonder if there's potentially an edge case though. Hypothetically if he did get booked on Saturday, and let's say the game is over as a contest (we're 5-0 up) would it be in his interest to get a second yellow, so its only a 1-match ban, and then when he returns from that ban on 9 yellows, the deadline has passed and he's safe. I'm not certain of the rules but I think that's how it'd work.
The one I always remember is a Cardiff player playing against us in the mid 00s. He got booked for a really daft, comical display of dissent, booting the ball in the air out of his hands in frustration. It was later pointed out that he was on 4 yellows, and this one gave him a ban for the following game which was against his parent club (Leeds I think) and so he was unable to play in anyway. It got him back to 0 yellows essentially without actually missing a game he wouldn't have anyway.
That would make sense if he's not booked, but in my hypothetical scenario he's already on a yellow and facing a 2-game ban.
Delap update... "Liam's away in Portugal at the moment in the next phase of his rehab, we're having communication with Man City about him joining us in Turkey, which I think will be great for him," Rosenior told Hull Live. "Everything has to be done in his best interests, so if it's in his best interest physically and psychologically, he'll come with us. If not, he'll continue his progress and his progress is really, really good."
Delap due back mid April... "He's recovering," Rosenior told Hull Live. "Andrew's (Balderston) got a meeting with Man City, actually, at three o'clock this afternoon (Friday), a Zoom meeting, just about his rehab and about how it's going. "All of the reports I'm getting is that he's doing better and better, and he's getting ahead of schedule, but what I don't want to do is put pressure on, but we're looking at having him back, I would say, in mid-April, so it is a couple of weeks. "When we have him back, we've decided with Manchester City because of their facilities and because of what they can give him, when he comes back, he's fully fit. "When he comes back, they rehab him to a point where he can go straight into full training, and I think that's quite right for him and when that happens, obviously he's going to be like a new player, he's been a big miss for us, a really big miss"
I sort of agree, though he might make a cameo substitution near the end of the season, depending on what the stakes are.
Liam Delap will return to training at City on Monday and the aim is to have him available for the QPR game.
Don’t know what’s worse the second half of the season drop off or the fact Delap got injured New Year’s Day and it’s already ****ing April… feels like last week he got injured
