Bannon fears time wasters will play havoc with sin bin

Leinster referees’ secretary John Bannon predicts inter-county football teams, particularly the leading ones, will do everything in their power to run down the sin bin clock.

The standing playing rules committee maintain there was little or no examples of counties temporarily down to 14 men cynically running down the 10 minutes during the sin bin’s trial phase in this year’s National Football League.