Black card won’t combat negative play, warns McNulty

Laois coach Enda McNulty is adamant the introduction of the black card will have no impact in curbing cynicism in the game.

McNulty commended Séan Cavanagh for his rugby tackle on Conor McManus in Saturday’s All-Ireland quarter-final, stressing that such incidences will be commonplace again next season despite a player having to leave the field if shown a black card.

“I don’t think it will be sufficient, definitely not,” he said. “If you had asked me in 2002, in the last minute of the All-Ireland final with one of the Kerry lads bearing down on goal, just about to score a goal and it flashed through my mind, ‘Enda, you have to take this man down, if you take him down you are going to get a black card and therefore leave this pitch, but Armagh are still going to win the All-Ireland’, what do you think I would have done?