15-12-2014, 14:29
My interpretation, poco had a moment of madness, saw the headlines ‘poco wins a penalty and wins the game’ and dived. Immediately realised what he’d done and got straight back up in order to try and avoid the booking. The ref’s saw this and booked him as they should have on the poco front case closed.
You cut diving out by booking the players that do! If it took there team down to 10 then players would stop. However as per the Cahill incident the ref’s are bottling it! They need to step up if they want to cut it out!
Another alternative is to introduce sin bins. I was looking at the hull game in particular and thinking it would be harsh to book or send off players mouthing off and disrespecting refs but if they immediately got sin bined it would bring more respect into the game and ref’s may feel less threatened to book players or make big decisions.
Just a thought.
You cut diving out by booking the players that do! If it took there team down to 10 then players would stop. However as per the Cahill incident the ref’s are bottling it! They need to step up if they want to cut it out!
Another alternative is to introduce sin bins. I was looking at the hull game in particular and thinking it would be harsh to book or send off players mouthing off and disrespecting refs but if they immediately got sin bined it would bring more respect into the game and ref’s may feel less threatened to book players or make big decisions.
Just a thought.