The yellow ones not obvious enough?

The 3 match ban for a some reds is pretty excessive.

Nah its fine the way it is.

I think they need to do something about second yellows. You can be sent off for kicking the ball away or taking your shirt off or time wasting. The player would be an idiot for letting that happen but it does happen. I think you should get a second yellow which means you get a 1match ban but you don’t get sent off. If you are stupid enough to get a third yellow then its sent off with 2match ban. It’s just my opinion but matches can be ruined when a team goes down to ten.

I was coaching high school soccer and one of my players committed a foul and the ref held up a red card and yellow card back to back. I asked what it meant and the ref said it was an orange card and the player had to leave the field, but I could sub and the player could return to the game later.

If we had any confidence in the ability to review retrospectively in a fair and consistent manner, maybe having a review committee take a look at game antics after the match and hand down appropriate discipline. Maybe change a yellow to a red, or a second yellow should have been issued. Would be really nice to review the dives and discipline the chronic divers, which would in turn help officiating on the pitch since hopefully there would be less diving over time.

Yes, this would lead to plenty of debate after the rulings got handed out.

Had to check the sub as I thought it was a Trump reference at first.

I don’t understand. Forced off the pitch but another yellow acts as a red? How does that work? The best idea for an orange card would be like, a 10 minute sin bin, but I wouldn’t want things changed. Getting fed up of things getting worse in an initial attempt to make things better.

Tbh, I think the very last thing that PL football needs at the moment is ‘more’ rules open to human interpretation. They’ve done their best to fuck the game up wth VAR already - let’s not give them any more ideas.

If you’re going to introduce a new card then the best best would be to follow the field hockey format of green yellow red. Green card is for low level offences like arguing with officials, build up of tackles, late but not dangerous or malicious tackles, time wasting etc. green card is just a warning.

Yellow cards are for either 2 green cards or more serious offences, deliberately breaking down play, persistent bad tackling, repeated abuse of officials, serious tackles that don’t meet the red card criteria such as reckless rather than deliberately dangerous tackles (if have high foot in this catergory) yellow card results in a sin bin either 5/10/15 minutes what ever we things fair after don trials.

Red cards are split into 2 categories like they now. Technical red cards are for 2 yellows. This means you miss the whole match and the next game same as now. You then have red cards for dangerous play which means you miss the rest of the match and the next 3.

It allows the ref to manage the game better. They can give warnings for time wasting and slowing the game down without risking an early red card and you can punish players who deliberately prevent attacks with time off the pitch so there’s an actually punishment for their team but they still come back later in the game so it’s not as final as a red

Sin bin for 10 minutes

I like this idea. I’ve have a similar idea where there’s a range of cards from white ( did nothing wrong awarded free kick) through cream (stern look by ref) to lemon (like a regular yellow but two of them don’t act as a red) regular yellow (you all know) orange (as above would be fine) red (you all know) Black card ( sent off, no pay for game, fined by club, not allowed on bus, no canteen for a month, slapped in the tits by co-worker, have to shake hands with all fans for a week, all your goals for the next month awarded to a defender of managers choice)

whats next week lottery numbers?

Brown card for flopping. Two minutes in the sin bin to smear a paste of horse fecal material over the name on your kit, then back on the pitch