Hi guys Sorry to hijack your board but you have a much bigger audience than the small band on the Pompey page. Just interested about your thoughts on the proposed Blue Card. Personally I don't think an extra card is necessary. However I have long been of the opinion that football should follow Rugby Union's lead and stick players in the sin bin for a yellow card, thus removing the need for another colour. What do you think......
Not needed and from what I have read this morning, the response from football, including high ranking managers, has caught the authorities on the hop, and they are reigning back on their plans to trial it at anything other than a low level.
When I first read the comments about the introduction of a blue card, my thoughts exactly mirrored yours - If a player gets a yellow card, they should also be sin binned. This would either mean that refs gave out fewer yellow cards, or would mean that players would rein back their fouls, dissent, etc, knowing that a yellow card will also mean 10 minutes off the pitch. In short, no need for another card, simply use the yellow card to sin bin players. If matches end up with fewer players on the pitch, then teams might actually realise that their approach may need to adjusted. Maybe I'm just unduly hopeful.
Not in favour. Just taking a great game and ruining it by adding more confusion. Just the evil cousin of VAR …designed to ruin a simple game.
I don't love the sin bin, because of the likelihood that it encourages time-wasting. I have been in favour of an orange card, though: for dissent or similar that doesn't merit the big hammer of a red, an enforced substitution (that uses up a sub window). So the player is punished by being disqualified, but the game isn't turned on its head by a team being a man down.
The idea is sound, but what happens if the team with an 'Orange Carded' player has already used all of their subs?
Just reminds me of the game "Uno". The original game and rules caused enough debates, arguments and family fall outs as it was. And then someone thought it would be a great idea to make " Uno Extreme". That game has been banned it our household since the infamous Xmas of 2016.
Then they're down a man just as with an injury sub after all the windows are used, but without the red card suspension.
