Armagh_paul
Well-Known Member
In the last few days on social media there have been a number of issues relating to diving that have cropped up. We have been victims of diving on multiple occasions over the years and we are certainly guilty of doing it ourselves. How this is only coming to the attention of the media now is mind boggling. It is not only this weekend this has happened, we experienced it against Galway last year and with a shocking frequency against Roscommon a few weeks ago. On a side point, this is something we are going to have to watch out for when we play Galway again as they were up to this crap at the weekend again.
How do we address the issue? Personally, I would like to see a similar approach that Ice Hockey uses but rather than stop the flow of the game, we have two video referees reviewing the evidence and the next break in play, the referee can go back to the player and punish them as they see fit. If a player is adjudged to have dived the punishments given could be the deduction of resulting points, yellow/red/black card depending on severity and for persistent simulation point deductions of increasing severity. Perhaps even introduce a 5 challenge system where managers can challenge an "unseen" illegal tackle/point etc, but if they use the challenges tactically to disrupt the flow of a game there could be consequences.
How do we address the issue? Personally, I would like to see a similar approach that Ice Hockey uses but rather than stop the flow of the game, we have two video referees reviewing the evidence and the next break in play, the referee can go back to the player and punish them as they see fit. If a player is adjudged to have dived the punishments given could be the deduction of resulting points, yellow/red/black card depending on severity and for persistent simulation point deductions of increasing severity. Perhaps even introduce a 5 challenge system where managers can challenge an "unseen" illegal tackle/point etc, but if they use the challenges tactically to disrupt the flow of a game there could be consequences.