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Black Card Proposal Gets The Go Ahead.
Saturday 23.03.2013
A proposal to introduce a ‘black card’ system in Gaelic football has been approved by the GAA’s Annual Congress in Derry today.
Players who commit fouls, such as dragging down opponents, are to be shown the black card which would result in them having to be substituted.
However, if a team receives three black cards in a match, any subsequent cards would result in a player leaving the pitch with no replacement allowed.
Delegates at the Congress in Derry voted in favour of the motion by 70.82% to 29.18% and the system will come into operation in January 2014.
It had been widely believed that the proposal might struggle to get the required two-thirds majority with six of the nine Ulster counties including Tyrone mandated to vote against it.
There was also strong opposition to the plan in Munster with Waterford, Limerick, Cork, Clare and Tipperary set to vote against while Laois and Kilkenny are also among the dissenters.
The proposed black card offences are:
1 Deliberatively pulling down an opponent
2 Deliberately tripping an opponent with hand, arm or foot
3 Deliberately colliding with an opponent after he has played the ball away or for the purpose of taking him out of the movement of play
4 Using abusive or provocative language or gestures to players
5 Remonstrating in an aggressive manner with a match official.
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