You are the ref - John Bannon

No blood, no replacement

You are the ref  - John Bannon

Yesterday we saw the unusual situation of Mayo using eight substitutes — five of them straight-forward ones and the other three blood replacements.

On paper, there’s nothing wrong there. You can make as many blood substitutions as you want providing your players are bleeding.

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