Cork want player sent off for 10 minutes after yellow card

RULE 42 is not the sole issue for discussion at Croke Park this weekend. Unusually, motions on playing rules for the GAA congress are almost as noteworthy for omissions as for the variety of proposals.

Not surprisingly, there is no recommendation to retain the most controversial of all the experiments tried out in the National League - that which merited dismissal of a player after a single yellow card and allowing him to be replaced.

It will be recalled that this was the amended proposal which came from the Football Task Force under the chairmanship of Connacht chairman Tommy Moran. That arose following difficulties with the implementation of the sin-bin. Interestingly, however, Cork have submitted a motion calling for the adoption of a sin-bin, which would see a player sent off for a 10-minute period after a single yellow card.