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Re: Yellow card / Red card usage at 2004 IRI

My only problem with the yellow card/red card system is that it forces the referees to call a DQ in situations where they might not normally make that call. Sometimes, you might be willing to give a team the benefit of the doubt in a questionable DQ situation, but if that team has already received a yellow card, the standard required for a DQ becomes a lot lower. Basically, I am concerned that actions that normally would not merit a DQ would receive one, simply because the team in question already got a yellow card. While not completely the same situation, I did worry that this is what we did to "Team C" at IRI. Do we want to be lowering the burden of proof for second offenses? Perhaps it is the way we want to go, to make teams consider their actions more carefully, but we must make sure that is the intended result.
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