What is everyone's thoughts in regards to an automactic 1 game suspension if a player is sinbinned 3 times in a season?
In the EPL if a player accumulates 5 yellow cards they miss a match. Now i understand this proposal is a little different in that the player and team are already penalised by missing ten minutes on the field.
However i think there does need to be a deterrent to continued grubby play.
From memory Slater has already been binned twice this year. Now theoretically he could be playing a match in the next month with two minutes left on the clock, Storm leading by 4, opposing team makes a break which he covers but then he lays all over the player committing a professional foul and getting sin binned.
So what, saved a try, minimal time left, his team win's, getting sin binned is the favourable option.....illegal play wins on the day!.
Theoretically this could play out week after week after week with no further punishment.
I think to combat against this, in the very rare case that a player cops 3 sin bins in a season they automatically miss a match, no hearing, no appeal, just one match out, thats it!
In the EPL if a player accumulates 5 yellow cards they miss a match. Now i understand this proposal is a little different in that the player and team are already penalised by missing ten minutes on the field.
However i think there does need to be a deterrent to continued grubby play.
From memory Slater has already been binned twice this year. Now theoretically he could be playing a match in the next month with two minutes left on the clock, Storm leading by 4, opposing team makes a break which he covers but then he lays all over the player committing a professional foul and getting sin binned.
So what, saved a try, minimal time left, his team win's, getting sin binned is the favourable option.....illegal play wins on the day!.
Theoretically this could play out week after week after week with no further punishment.
I think to combat against this, in the very rare case that a player cops 3 sin bins in a season they automatically miss a match, no hearing, no appeal, just one match out, thats it!