Bookings/Suspensions

Conroy was booked in the first couple of minutes against Crewe for pulling a player back.

Following yesterday's game we now have accumulated more bookings than any other team in L2 (58, next highest 54). It is also the third highest in the EFL, behind Wigan and Southampton.

We also have the player booked the most in L2, Jay Williams with 9 bookings. Again only 2 players in the whole EFL have been booked more than Jay. Liam Kelly has also been booked 7 times and Will Wright 6 times.

Despite this, yesterday's red card was the first of the season, and I don't think we are a dirty team, and our players seem to be booked for innocuous tackles and poor discipline. I think this is partly due to our inexperience, and a more experienced opposition knowing how to win free kicks, and make tackles look worse than they are/wind up certain players.

Hopefully we can improve as the season goes on, or we could have some costly two match suspensions coming up.

They'll start calling us dirty southern bar stewards at this rate.

Jay Williams will now serve a 3 match suspension - 2 matches for reaching 10 yellow cards and one for the Red Card - both reached for the sending off against Mansfield.

Looking at the EFL website they have him on 9 yellow cards (only counting one from Saturday), so I think it will be just a one match suspension. However, as soon as he is booked again, he will have to serve a separate two match suspension.

At 19 games, yellow cards continue to add up, you just don't serve a one match suspension for reaching 5 cards. If you have 10 yellow cards before 37 games you get a 2 match ban. If you reach 10 cards after 37 games, you don't serve a 2 match ban, but if you reach 15 cards before the end of the season you get a 3 match ban. If you get 20 cards before the end of the season, you win a visit to the FA to decide any further penalty! (See below)


ourgamefootball.com/rules-regs/

Definitely a Three match suspension for Jay Williams had it confirmed.