COLIN Boag (July 15) is rightly against replacing the red card system (dismissal) by something like the Rugby League on report system.
Referees are in an invidious position — enforce the laws or ruin the game as a spectacle.
Remember the Brian O’Driscoll spear tackle in the first few minutes of the first Test in NZ in 2005.
It may be for consideration that a red carded player be removed for 20 minutes, not to return but instead replaced by a substitute.
RODNEY EAST
Putney

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