Tony Considine has rubbished GAA President Liam O'Neill's suggestion that the black card should be introduced to hurling.

Writing in his column in today's Irish Examiner, former Clare manager Considine reacts angrily to O'Neill saying he would have no fear of the black card - which is aimed at reducing cynical fouling in gaelic football - being brought in to the small ball code.

"What is going on in Liam O'Neill's head," asks Considine. "He now wants to see the black card introduced to hurling - what next, blue cards, green cards? Any one of these days I expect the GAA to run out of colours. 'Twouldn't do to be colour-blind anyway would it, for either a referee or a player?

"It's becoming farcical, completely and utterly farcical. All the genuine issues in the GAA and we're down to this. I've said this before and I'll say it again, if the GAA wants to introduce something between a yellow and a red card then let them go back to the sin-bin.'

He continues: "I thought this was already decided, that it wasn't to be applied to hurling. We keep hearing Liam O'Neill is a hurling man, from a hurling club in Laois, grew up as a Kilkenny hurling supporter - if he's from such a small club, surely he should know better than anyone the effect this could have?

"If you want to get your discipline right on the field, look at rugby. There you have the sin-bin, no nonsense. A player is off the field for 10 minutes, no replacement; his team is put under additional pressure for that 10 minutes and even when he comes back on, they can still be under pressure, fellas having put in a lot more effort in that 10 minutes than they'd otherwise have done." Tweet

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