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.
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âWe need to go more towards a professional foul. I saw it happen in our own [Wicklow] game [on Sunday]. Iâm told âThatâs the law, thatâs the rule. Read the rulebookâ. If that is the rule, then the rule needs to change.
âThe reason why it needs to change is if someone is going through and you donât pull somebody to the ground but you deliberately stop them from going through with a foul [you donât get a black card].
âIf we are going to continue with this black card, thatâs 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. Youâre told, âBut he didnât drag him to the groundâ but [it should] still be a black card as well.
âIf you donât do it, you get absolutely destroyed at the team meeting. Your fellow players, coaches â they will destroy you for it,â the 2002 All-Ireland winner continued.
âTherefore, 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 doesnât fit it anymore.
âI still donât 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 doesnât give the referee the opportunity to punish situations like that.
âUnless 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.â