Blue Cards = Sin bins introduced to football.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

6 hours ago, Code said:

Just fuck off with this shite!

Great post in full.

[Mudface]

Every PGMOL ref on hearing the blue card proposal-

 

[Freddo]

I get IFAB are the group that presides over law but if uefa and fifa don’t want this then why would it ever happen. Clubs, particularly the biggest clubs who yield a lot of weight and power could refuse it. Why can’t there be some militancy over this and fans, players, clubs and governing bodies just say no.

We won’t be adopting this now or ever. 
IFAB are clearly out of touch and the VAR shambles proves this. That system was trialled and after a trial it is decided if it is good or not good. VAR is clearly to the detriment of the game as it stops the flow of what should be a fast paced game. It’s added nothing but more layers of complexity and confusion. Yet we now have VAR in place. The blue card, to anyone with a brain cell is clearly a shit idea, so say no before it goes too far.

[Jennings]

It's just another complexity. The chimps won't be able to use it properly.

[gkmacca]

With VAR's obsessive drawing of coloured lines and now the blue cards, they're heading inexorably towards a stage where they'll do away with players, pitches and footballs and concentrate solely on counting angels on the head of a pin. It'll still have its own TV programme: Metaphysik of the Day.

[VladimirIlyich]

They warned you when they said 'You messed with the wrong supporters!'

[Carra_is_legend]

Referees are shit.

VAR is not being applied properly due to the monkeys behind it.

 

Yeah, lets go and add one more thing in the mix, eh? Why not. Fucking useless cunts.

[KevieG]

Just get the refs to decide the winner before the game

[VladimirIlyich]

1 hour ago, KevieG said:

Just get the refs to decide the winner before the game

It's already being done.

[gkmacca]

The rumour is the blue card will be mainly for dissent, but this not only begs the question, why is dissent being downgraded from a yellow card offence, it also begs the question, how will the card be used if, like Arsenal and both manc teams amongst others currently do, several players race to the ref at the same time? The whole issue in dealing with teams that encourage about half the team to intimidate the ref at the same time is: why not book them all, and, if not, why book anyone? Those clubs know that there's strength in numbers, so they get away with it, while one player gesturing at the ref will get a card. There really is nothing that a yellow card covers that can be moved over to a blue card without questioning the downgrading, and nothing in the current ineptitude of refs in administering the rules that yet another card will help.

[Barrington Womble]

6 minutes ago, gkmacca said:

The rumour is the blue card will be mainly for dissent, but this not only begs the question, why is dissent being downgraded from a yellow card offence, it also begs the question, how will the card be used if, like Arsenal and both manc teams amongst others currently do, several players race to the ref at the same time? The whole issue in dealing with teams that encourage about half the team to intimidate the ref at the same time is: why not book them all, and, if not, why book anyone? Those clubs know that there's strength in numbers, so they get away with it, while one player gesturing at the ref will get a card. There really is nothing that a yellow card covers that can be moved over to a blue card without questioning the downgrading, and nothing in the current ineptitude of refs in administering the rules that yet another card will help.

it's not downgrading, it's a different punishment, in fact it is more than a yellow. a yellow and a blue make a red. so a blue is a yellow card, plus 10 mins off the pitch. the fact they are focusing on dissent being one of the blue card offences tells you what it is all about. the referees can't control games, so they are giving them more tools in which to kill the game or in the case of bald mancs, get the outcomes they want. 

[gkmacca]

1 hour ago, Barrington Womble said:

it's not downgrading, it's a different punishment, in fact it is more than a yellow. a yellow and a blue make a red. so a blue is a yellow card, plus 10 mins off the pitch. the fact they are focusing on dissent being one of the blue card offences tells you what it is all about. the referees can't control games, so they are giving them more tools in which to kill the game or in the case of bald mancs, get the outcomes they want. 

 

Ah, the daily gainsay.  You'd have blue cards coming out of your fecking arse every day.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Refs don't have the cojones to send players off for dissent as it is. Adding another card and a naughty step seems an odd solution to a lack of testicular fortitude.

[Barrington Womble]

4 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

Refs don't have the cojones to send players off for dissent as it is. Adding another card and a naughty step seems an odd solution to a lack of testicular fortitude.

Which is my point. Blue cards are because refs can't control games. 

[Code]

Someone suggested football would be better without refs. 

[Bruce Spanner]

[VladimirIlyich]

12 hours ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

Refs don't have the cojones to send players off for dissent as it is. Adding another card and a naughty step seems an odd solution to a lack of testicular fortitude.

Professional refs are told to do everything they can to keep players on the pitch. This is why your average weekend grassroots game is a different game to the professional one.