RULES NOT HELPING

black card. That’s the reality of it, but it was brought in because someone was pulled down in front of goal and they had a clear goalscoring opportunity.

“I think we are a little bit quick to make rules on our game and I don’t think we need to. We had our two cards. A clear goalscoring opportunity should be a red card and that’s the way it should be in my opinion.”

On the introduction of the mark, he added: “To be honest I don’t think it’s going to be a major factor. How many clean catches have you seen outside the 45 in the last five or six years? “Are they trying to bring that back, I don’t know? Will it work? I’m not sure. Not too many goalkeepers in the modern games just bomb the ball out to the middle and look for someone to catch it.

“It might be factor, but I don’t think it’s going to be a major one. It’s a dead duck really, that mark, I think they tried it before and it didn’t work.”