The former Armagh All-Ireland winner Oisin McConville believes the black card has to go from the game, he said this while speaking on the hugely popular the GAA Social podcast.

Quoted by balls.ie below;

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“We need to go more towards a professional foul. I saw it happen in our own [Wicklow] game [on Sunday]. I’m told ‘That’s the law, that’s the rule. Read the rulebook’. If that is the rule, then the rule needs to change.

“The reason why it needs to change is if someone is going through and you don’t pull somebody to the ground but you deliberately stop them from going through with a foul [you don’t get a black card].

“If we are going to continue with this black card, that’s what we need to do; we need to introduce that extra little sentence into the rule, if it looks as cynical as some of them are. You’re told, ‘But he didn’t drag him to the ground’ but [it should] still be a black card as well.

“If you don’t do it, you get absolutely destroyed at the team meeting. Your fellow players, coaches – they will destroy you for it,” the 2002 All-Ireland winner continued.

“Therefore, the rule must change, the rule must be adapted to bring in the consideration that it is now being coached around. This rule at a certain time really fitted the bill of where Gaelic football was, but it doesn’t fit it anymore.

“I still don’t think the black card is ideal but I do think there still is a deterrent with the black card. The wording of the actual rule doesn’t give the referee the opportunity to punish situations like that.

“Unless we change things in order to make that happen, then that same thing that frustrates the life out of you is just going to keep on happening.”