Blue cards & sin bins

Quoted from AncientExiledMariner

I think you make a good point. Refs are afraid to send folk off and determine the game. They'd be more confident to punish bad behaviour if it's a 10 minute, not 90 minute impact, and teams are going to think twice about professional fouls. The way it goes now, is anyone not on a yellow, will take a hit for the team and take a free yellow. Your team could absolutely be dominating, but the muscle teams, the Stokes of league 2 will just abuse players, take 7 yellow cards, after sitting deep for 90 mins and stealing a goal from a set play. That is anti-football and the current rules encourage that style of play.

The reason we have 3 points for a win is to incentivise attacking. You gain by going for it, but with the steal goals from set plays football, it can incentivise boring game management teams. Any strong attacking team would happily have a man advantage so they can throw more forward and put the opponent under the cosh. Towards the end of the games, dominant teams outplay the opponent, and it's a case of will they get a goal, or won't they. I think this will give incentives to attacking teams and discouragement to rugby style teams. You'll effectively get teams trying to defend, by errr, defending, rather than fouling. You'll get actual football, and you'll get more excitement as teams get a 10 minute shot at getting a goal against brawler teams. If you cannot get it in the net in that time, ah well. If they do, the other team has to go out and attack. You get more end to end football.

The whole VAR argument is nonsense, because it's the issue with it is about refs deciding games, and the scrutiny over perfectionism in decisions. Right now, they don't off the TV, they just keep their cards in their pockets in lower leagues and you watch anti-football teams ascend.

It's funny how everyone here dug at Wrexham and Parkinson's football, but given a chance to change the game and incentivise the type they'd like, they throw weird illogical arguments forward which have no affect on the rule change.

The great thing about this, is if 10 mins is too much, you can drop it to 7 or 5 mins and balance it quite well to give a reasonable punishment.

My view, is let's try and see under human officials, not top level and learn from it. Worse changes have been implemented such as more substitutes which give an unfair advantage to richer teams that can afford to pay 16 good players rather than 14. Good for youth, obviously, but not the great leveller imho.

Another benefit, is English football is rougher than European football. What players get away with here doesn't work on the international stage, so what you'd get away with domestically defensively, you won't abroad. So English players don't always learn to defend effectively in a way that can be deployed in international fixtures. Creating a system where players learn to defend, rather than foul, can only help us internationally.