YAY! Ref here: that’s great news. PLEASE! Plus a rule that the coach can ONLY speak to the 4th official; any comments to/at/about the CR and ARs is automatic YC. That’ll shut them up quick and make them focus on coaching their team. #OnlyLosersBlameTheRef

A couple of minutes sin bin for various offences is a good idea.

I know it won’t happen but a pro rata fine (let’s say 20% of their net weekly wage) for dissent would do wonders, actually hurting players wallets has a far better likelihood of reducing bad behaviours than a yellow card.

Sin bins are a terrible idea for football, teams would just do whatever they can to waste 10 minutes

I just think this is so simple. You don’t need sin bins.

Allow only the captain to approach the ref and anyone else who does so gets a yellow. You stick to that the first gameweek and it instantly stops it. Done. Problem literally sorted straight away.

Have them release a statement before the weekend that says these players will receive yellows and they fully back the refs to do so, making it clear to everyone so there’s no complaints and taking some pressure off of the refs.

If you don’t limit it to captains then the issue becomes what does a ref deem dissent Vs normal behaviour, and that’s caused the shitshow we are in now.

There’s just no need to complicate things and I don’t know why they haven’t sorted it yet.

I don’t see why they have to bring in new rules when the existing ones aren’t enforced.

I’m sure they mentioned about only allowing the captain to approach the ref early on and then that seemed to disappear.

If we’re going to import practices from other sports, then I would suggest a tennis-style three appeals system.

Therefore, when a ref yellow cards a player because an opponent tripped themselves up, this can be immediately rescinded (see also recent Eze yellow).

I wonder how many years we are away from AIR (AI Ref) which will do all on-field officiating objectively. Penalty decisions, fouls, handballs - an AI model trained with all of the millions of hours of footage we have could eliminate the human factors from officiating these things completely. What will the players do? Complain to a computer monitor?

How about adopting the Rigby rule of showing VAR on the screen and letting people listen to them too?

Sin Bins should replace yellow cards, they are fucking useless IMO.

Best example Euro final Saka is almost through on goal and Chilleni drags him down, result yellow card. That is just stupid a free kick from there is pretty useless too. There is no punishment for the crime. And refs refuse to give some yellow cards esp in the first 10 -15 mins. So a foul deemed a yellow at 90th min is not at min 5, because they need to keep all players.

And punishment for accumulation of yellow cards is again ridiculously stupid as it is. Oh you have 5 yellows take a day off, and even if he is player that will be missed terribly the advantage goes to team that wasnt at the end of any of his yellow card fouls.

WTF is a sin bin?

Why is this not already a thing? There’s literal no one who likes what’s currently happening.

I think VAR should be allowed to review Yellows as well. How often do we see a soft first yellow leads to a send off from a warranted second. Basically we need the sin-bin, plus better use of VAR (and more competent referees lol).

Talked about in 2016. I won’t hold my breath.

Yes please. It kills the match for me. I can’t stand to see it.

upgrade yellows to sinbins