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Tired of your sport failing? Sick of foul play going relatively unpunished? Or overpunished? The sin bin is the answer for you. Here are a few areas I can see improvements in Australia’s favourite sporting codes.
Rugby
Rugby currently has a sin bin, but it is not used properly. The biggest failing I see is when your team scores three tries to nil, but loses when the opposition kicks eight penalty goals.
Watching the likes of Dan Carter or Morne Steyn slot goals all over the opposition half is not what I go to the rugby for — it’s the tries.
Solution: Stop penalty kicks for goals in general play, and send off the offending player for five minutes in the sin bin. Adequately penalises dirty play, and opens up the game for better attacking rugby.
AFL
I’m sick of watching these blokes be all namby pamby and bump chests, pull jumpers and hair, and do everything but hit each other with their hand bags.
Solution: Let them do the equivalent of dropping the gloves in ice hockey, and have a good old fashioned stink. Then five in the bin for both (if both fight – if only one wants to fight and throws punches, then he gets five alone) and third man in would get fifteen, to stop group melees.
Sorts each other out and entertains the crowd at the same time. Plus, with a sin bin when a thug like Barry Hall breaks someone’s jaw, you can bin him for ten+ as well as placing him on report.
Football
The big blights on the game are ‘simulation’ and deliberate foul play. Also, bad red cards can create a lopsided game.
Solution: Yellow for foul play gets five in the bin. Caught diving? Fifteen in the bin. Need a stretcher because you got a minor bump? Five in the sin bin to fix your injuries (can be subbed during this time). Harry Kewell handballs on the line, stopping a goal? Fifteen in the bin (better than off for the game).
Can dish out multiple yellows for the likes of Kaka’s vicious slap to the chest punch to the head, but keep reds for Brain explosions a la Zidane.
One Day Cricket
The game needs something new. I propose not so much a sin bin as a punishment, but a tweak to the powerplay. During the powerplays, the batting side can choose a player to “send to the sin bin” for five overs.
Means players can interrupt a bowlers spell by sending him off. Captains need to think when they want to use strike bowlers, and when batting attack the opposition which has only ten on the field. Plus splitting the game into quarters would help.
League
Has the sin bin, but doesn’t use it enough. The old days with a five minute and ten minute sin bin were better. Professional foul? Five minutes (not ten as currently stands) Repeated team fouls for the likes of stripping the ball? Five minutes for next offender after warning the skipper. Spear tackle? On report and ten in the bin.
The sin bin – the answer for your sports woes.
Disagree? Let me know why.
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