I have used the sin bin approach quite a lot, and on the whole I'm finding it works well. There are a few issues though.
On Sunday I had a player telling me that I was wrong to show a yellow card for a dissent sin bin - apparently it should be a blue card. This isn't the first time I've been told this either. Judging from the shock that seems to emanate when I actually send a player to the bin I'm guessing not many of my colleagues are doing this properly / at all.
I've had mixed experiences with this, I must admit. Most of the time it's worked really well. However a few times I've had multiple sin bins, including twice where a team have had more than one off at the same time. On one occasion they walked together because a player had to chirp up with the same thing his mate was saying and had just been binned for! They'd had two players sent off at this point so they were a bit short staffed at the back!
On three occasions I've had players turn a ten minute break into permanent suspension. On Sunday I had a player who had already been binned foul an opponent, then turn round and tell me "you're f***ing s**t!" Ok that's yellow for the foul and red for the comment.
I know I'm quite strict - if it's a caution then it gets a caution, so I tend to get the games no one else fancies because I'm not worried about club marks - but I'd expect players to get the message. If I've sent one of their players to cool down I'm probably not going to worry about getting someone to keep him company. On occasion they don't seem to get this and I'm wondering why. Most of the time it works ok, so am I the only one using sin bins so the players don't know it's a thing? Is anyone else finding that the players don't always know what's going on?
On Sunday I had a player telling me that I was wrong to show a yellow card for a dissent sin bin - apparently it should be a blue card. This isn't the first time I've been told this either. Judging from the shock that seems to emanate when I actually send a player to the bin I'm guessing not many of my colleagues are doing this properly / at all.
I've had mixed experiences with this, I must admit. Most of the time it's worked really well. However a few times I've had multiple sin bins, including twice where a team have had more than one off at the same time. On one occasion they walked together because a player had to chirp up with the same thing his mate was saying and had just been binned for! They'd had two players sent off at this point so they were a bit short staffed at the back!
On three occasions I've had players turn a ten minute break into permanent suspension. On Sunday I had a player who had already been binned foul an opponent, then turn round and tell me "you're f***ing s**t!" Ok that's yellow for the foul and red for the comment.
I know I'm quite strict - if it's a caution then it gets a caution, so I tend to get the games no one else fancies because I'm not worried about club marks - but I'd expect players to get the message. If I've sent one of their players to cool down I'm probably not going to worry about getting someone to keep him company. On occasion they don't seem to get this and I'm wondering why. Most of the time it works ok, so am I the only one using sin bins so the players don't know it's a thing? Is anyone else finding that the players don't always know what's going on?
