New black card proposals offer players ‘form of redemption’

The standing playing rules committee have amended three of their five proposed changes to Gaelic football.

As reported by the Irish Examiner last week, the sin bin recommendation has been altered so that the 10-minute dismissal from the field is the penalty for a black card offence. Instead of being automatically substituted, the offending player must sit out the period as in rugby and the maximum number of subs will return to five from six.