Cash 123 wrote:The league is on the verge of having a very serious issue to deal with. umpires are issuing yellow and red cards for incidents that would have been barely free kicks in years gone by. Also to my knowledge they have been instructed to issue cards just to control the game irrespective of the incident. Will be only a matter time before many clubs start lodging complaints. I guarantee we will see the number of hearings at the tribunal increasing and put a strain on the leagues resoucres.
Noticed this massively over the weekend, and chatting to a bloke who watched a Div 5 game and said the same thing was happening in the games he saw.. Very trigger happy with the cards. is this a new approach?
i saw a lad get yellow carded for a bit of lip (which was silly at best but not malicious), then asked the umpire if he was going to run off with him and explain what it was for, umpire changed it to red!