Blue Cards to be introduced which will send players to the Sin Bin

[RedRocket9908]

Blue cards are set to be introduced for football sin-bins, with players removed from field for 10 minutes for cynical fouls or dissent, what are your thoughts on this idea?

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Blue cards are set to be introduced for football sin-bins, with players removed from field for 10 minutes for cynical fouls or dissent, what are your thoughts on this idea?

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Something else our useless refs can feck up

 

[GDaly95]

I like the idea. Let's see about the implementation.

 

[SilentWitness]

Sort out the current rules before introducing a new one please.

 

[TheReligion]

This is from the @Ajr school of science

 

[Robbie Boy]

This is from the @Ajr school of science

 

[SalfordRed18]

Thought this was a pisstake at first

 

[Samid]

Rodri will go from 60 games per season to 60 minutes.

 

[T00lsh3d]

Does a blue count as a yellow then? Or can you go blue-yellow-blue-red?

 

[SER19]

absolute idiocy. so is it a yellow? what happens if you get a blue and a yellow? or two blues? can a 'cynical foul' be a yellow and a blue?

Just implement any of the current rules consistently without giving these failures another way to get it wrong

 

[SER19]

Rodri will go from 60 games per season to 60 minutes.

he won't though, he doesnt get punished as it is. All of these ideas and rule changes make no difference until refs are any good.

 

[rimaldo]

Does a blue count as a yellow then? Or can you go blue-yellow-blue-red?

there’s a handy rhyme;

blue then yella? lucky to be on the pitch there fella.
yella then blue? it’s an early bath for you.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

This is from the @Ajr school of science

 

[ShinjiNinja26]

If we’re taking ideas from rugby then mic’ing up referees should be the main one.

 

[Remember the geese]

Oh look! A different colour card to award our players for offences that go unpunished by our rivals.

 

[Hernandez - BFA]

I'd be more agreeable to this if they included diving in this too.
Dives can appear as cynical fouls.

 

[Samid]

Sin-bins in football won't work unless you also stop the clock when the ball isn't in play and make the games 60 mins. Otherwise teams will just time waste their way out of it.

 

[Mike Smalling]

Here's a crazy prediction: The implementation of this will be wildly inconsistent.

 

[altodevil]

Stop fecking about with the on-pitch rules and sort out the off-pitch ones.

 

[didz]

Sort out the current rules before introducing a new one please.

This. Referees have the smallest brains of any mammal relative to its size and we shouldn't be asking them to do any more than remembering to breath. I'm convinced that the only reason the card will be blue is to remind them of the dangers of forgetting that vital action.

 

[MegadrivePerson]

absolute idiocy. so is it a yellow? what happens if you get a blue and a yellow? or two blues? can a 'cynical foul' be a yellow and a blue?

Just implement any of the current rules consistently without giving these failures another way to get it wrong

Yellow and Blue = Green card.

 

[uwotm8]

it's a tough one. Because I think fans have already started to become discontented with changes to the game especially with VAR and it's sometimes dodgy implementation.

However, there is little more frustrating as a football fan seeing a great counter attacking opportunity getting ruined by a cynical foul. Seeing a player like Nacho getting pulled to the ground by the shirt as he's about to burst into open space just takes the piss and ruins the game.

I think sin bins for obvious, cynical rule breaking should be implemented but give enough time for fans to absorb the changes. Maybe in 2-3 years. Might be a revelation like how introducing the back pass rule changed football

 

[711]

Does a blue count as a yellow then? Or can you go blue-yellow-blue-red?

That's 13 points

 

[KiD MoYeS]

Will this mean VAR will be used for possible blue card offences?

 

[neon_badger]

The media will no doubt push for this, even the article uses Chiellini’s shirt-pull on Saka in the Euro's as an example.

 

[Annihilate Now!]

Sort out the current rules before introducing a new one please.

Yep.

They have some shit rules (particularly around handball) managed by a truly shit VAR system, and they want to introduce more shit rules?

 

[didz]

Yellow and Blue = Green card.

Don't Americans spend enough time arguing about immigration policy as it is?

 

[Shane88]

For cynical fouls, yes, because they are obvious.

For dissent, no, because refs allow some teams/players/managers to spit bile in their faces one week and then book players for flinging their arms the next. Far too inconsistent, or dare I say corrupt.

 

[SNes]

So more park the bus football.

 

[Oranges038]

Be grand if they just applied the current rules without adding to the mess. Teams will just time waste those minutes.

Unless they also punish time wasting with a blue card.

 

[SuperiorXI]

For me it only makes sense if every time it is issued then I'm Blue by Eiffel 65 is played over the tannoy

 

[The Cat]

Be grand if they just applied the current rules without adding to the mess. Teams will just time waste those minutes.

Unless they also punish time wasting with a blue card.

Time wasting will be a white card.

 

[KeanoMagicHat]

Rodri will only play 30 minutes a game if implemented properly.

 

[Irrational.]

Will there be VAR checks on clear and obvious blues?

 

[noodlehair]

Its a sensible idea, but then so is VAR if you don't place it in the hands of idiots.

PL officials can't even figure out what offside is despite it being 99% factual. Literally anything with any room for subjectivity they will make into an absolute agenda driven mess.

 

[T00lsh3d]

there’s a handy rhyme;

blue then yella? lucky to be on the pitch there fella.
yella then blue? it’s an early bath for you.

I’ve tried for a funny one, but my brain can only rhyme red with “shit the bed”.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Sin-bins in football won't work unless you also stop the clock when the ball isn't in play and make the games 60 mins. Otherwise teams will just time waste their way out of it.

It’s a great idea but this is a very important point. The last thing the game needs is an incentive for any more time wasting!

 

[stevoc]

Let's just skip 10 steps ahead, make the ball oval, allow players to pick it up and run with it, then change the name to Rugby so I can just stop watching this shite alltogether.

They can't even implement the current rules properly yet they want to continually change them every 12 months.

 

[SER19]

Yellow and Blue = Green card.

= 2 match ban for Casemiro

 

[The Stain]

This is fecking stupid. Feck off. You cnuts.