A red card would make a difference to Fremantle though as they were a player short on the rotations and West Coast were not. For Gaff type situations where the action is blatant and results in a player not being able to continue in the game i am totally in favour of a red card. By red card I mean that Gaff would have been removed from the game and replaced by one of the West Coast bench players. For a black card offence he would not be replaced and West Coast would have continued with 17 players on the field. I am not in favour of that yet. A lesser punishment would be a sin bin either with or without replacement which I am also not in favour of as I think it would overly complicate the game.
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