Yellow/Red Cards

[MiloStedman]

I honestly believe the AFL needs a send-off rule, as most contact and even some non-contact sports have. Its a pretty weak and quite frankly embarrasing part of our game, that the furtherst an umpire can go is to put someone on report. Also, I think so many cards should equal a suspension, for example, 5 yellow cards amassed in a season equals a suspension of x amount of weeks, where x amount of red cards equals x amount of weeks off. Really quite crazy that in this day and age, it hasn't been implemented. Should be trialled in the 2013 NAB cup, brought into the H&A season in 2014

 

[Cmarsh]

Tend to agree with the principle of sending people off for blatent and intentional injury to a player.

Thread should be placed on the rules forum though.

 

[Shagger83]

Not required in this day and age. Cant think of an incident in the last 10 years that I would have thought required a sending off.

 

[Oneiros]

Not required in this day and age. Cant think of an incident in the last 10 years that I would have thought required a sending off.

Dunno - if we feel someone deserves to be suspended for a set number of games, then surely we can find a way to make the suspensions a little more immediate. After all, the biggest problem as it stands is that the team that gets sinned against receives no benefit from any punishment handed out to an infringing player, whilst it takes all the ill-effect of the offence.

 

[____]

I think you have a decent idea going, Myles Stedman.

Not required in this day and age. Cant think of an incident in the last 10 years that I would have thought required a sending off.

Hall on Staker?

 

[MiloStedman]

Tend to agree with the principle of sending people off for blatent and intentional injury to a player.

Thread should be placed on the rules forum though.

Is also placed there

 

[MiloStedman]

Not required in this day and age. Cant think of an incident in the last 10 years that I would have thought required a sending off.

Must not have watched a single game in the last 10 years

 

[Shagger83]

I will give u Hall on Staker so there's one name another. They are so rare it's ridiculous. Not enough incidents to warrant it. Myles name me one incident this year a player should have been sent off for if it's required.

 

[cos789]

I honestly believe the AFL needs a send-off rule, as most contact and even some non-contact sports have.

Actually yellow/red cards are in Australian Football already just not in the AFL.
They could easily be brought in with no major effect.

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[AM]

Actually yellow/red cards are in Australian Football already just not in the AFL.
They could easily be brought in with no major effect.

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Would be a very game umpire to give a red card in a grand final.

 

[stmookeyj]

It happens in local football, and umpires tend to go OTT with what is a Yellow Card offence more so than a Red Card. You'd need to do something almost above a major incident to get a red, but you could get a yellow for something that a 50m penalty would be sufficient punishment for (e.g. barrelling an opponent after a mark).

 

[MiloStedman]

It happens in local football, and umpires tend to go OTT with what is a Yellow Card offence more so than a Red Card. You'd need to do something almost above a major incident to get a red, but you could get a yellow for something that a 50m penalty would be sufficient punishment for (e.g. barrelling an opponent after a mark).

Yes, if it were in the AFL, red would obviously be for very serious offences. But the yellow card cannot certainly replace the 50m penalty, like in the instance of entering of the protected zone.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

I will give u Hall on Staker so there's one name another. They are so rare it's ridiculous. Not enough incidents to warrant it. Myles name me one incident this year a player should have been sent off for if it's required.

What year was Alistair Lynch's grand final fist-spree? 2004? Not much damage done, but throwing them like that would be worthy of a red.

 

[Tha Main Man]

Australian Rules is a contact sport, if the game gets Yellow/Red cards then our sport has officially become soft. What if one of your players gets sent off for what looks like a high tackle but isn't, you would be pissed wouldn't you? leave the game as it is!.

 

[MiloStedman]

Australian Rules is a contact sport, if the game gets Yellow/Red cards then our sport has officially become soft. What if one of your players gets sent off for what looks like a high tackle but isn't, you would be pissed wouldn't you? leave the game as it is!.

I'm not inferring people should be sent off for a high tackle. Perhaps if the high tackle is avoidable or something of the sort, they would recieve a yellow. But there are plenty of incidents on the field that I have seen that have warranted red cards

 

[arkie]

If this was ever introduced, the game would be dead to me.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

If this was ever introduced, the game would be dead to me.

Meaning the game is already dead to you outside the AFL? The laws of the game have a send-off rule in place, with an exemption stated for the AFL only.

 

[arkie]

Meaning the game is already dead to you outside the AFL? The laws of the game have a send-off rule in place, with an exemption stated for the AFL only.

I'm pretty sure we are talking about the AFL here mate.

 

[Slax]

I will give u Hall on Staker so there's one name another. They are so rare it's ridiculous. Not enough incidents to warrant it. Myles name me one incident this year a player should have been sent off for if it's required.

Judd

 

[Perry Pie]

I have played in a game when one of the players got red carded (not carded as such, sent off). He had lost the plot during a game and it was right he had to go (for the safety of others before more fights broke out).
However at the professional level I dont think its needed - the post match penalties are enough.

 

[Heardy_101]

Steven Baker harassing Stevie J's injured hand? Big Barry on Staker......Judd's Chicken Wing....

Here's food for thought: what about a Sin-Bin system? Doesn't the NRL have a system like that and how does it work?

 

[caroma]

In our league a yellow card acts as a 'sin bin' type punishment. 15 minutes off the ground i think. Red means you have to go have a shower and put on civilian clothes.

We get plenty of reds. usually for OTT fights. Yellows are usually for blatent late hits and 'soft' fights.

The AFL currently struggles with the system they have now. Introducing cards would make it hilarious.

Also, there's nothing better than watching a perpetrator of a Big Hit get hounded and attacked for the rest of the game by the opposition ie Hawks vs Lloyd. Remove this and it takes away another element that makes the game exciting IMO.

 

[Shagger83]

So Howard we need to go back to the 2004 Grand Final to find another send off offence apart from Hall. Also Lynch was professional enough afterwards to pull he's head in even in a grand final and the game has changed in that regard in the last 8 years it's now more professional.

The Chris Judd incident I hated and hate Carlton but I don't want to see players sent off for that the report and subsequent suspension was due punishment. Stevie Baker on Stevie J's hand please where going to send a player off for knocking anothers hand this is eactly why we don't need it, as some stupid umpire would give a red card for it!!!

I'm all for the card system in local footy where there is no video and very little professionalism. A red card at this level should be for severe off the ball incidents only though. Unfortunatley I think it's required at a local level and it's a shame it is. 30 years ago the red card system could have been handy for a VFL umpire with the sorts of things that used to happen but not in the AFL in 2012.

 

[Grundy2Kennedy]

Would this deserve a card?

 

[The Swert]

Most coaches drag a player to the bench after a heated moment anyway - re Hall on Staker, Hall on Thompson, Milburn on Silvagni etc.

Not sure what extra a sin bin would add.