NFHS Soccer Rules changes

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by Tim C

Effective with the 2012-13 season, a second yellow card not only will disqualify a player, but the team will not be permitted to substitute for the disqualified player. Previously, a team was permitted to replace a player who had received a second yellow card.

Mechanics question here. If you have full knowledge that a player has been booked, and that player commits an act that would require another yellow, do you even bother showing the yellow, then the red, or would you just go straight to red?

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by bainsey

Mechanics question here. If you have full knowledge that a player has been booked, and that player commits an act that would require another yellow, do you even bother showing the yellow, then the red, or would you just go straight to red?

Presumably it will follow the normal soccer mechanic which is to first show the second yellow then the red. The reason being that the cause of the red card is the second yellow.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by bainsey

Mechanics question here. If you have full knowledge that a player has been booked, and that player commits an act that would require another yellow, do you even bother showing the yellow, then the red, or would you just go straight to red?

It may matter for a suspension from future games. It depends upon what your state association does. If it suspends for all red cards equally, then it wouldn't matter, but if straight reds get a longer suspension or are the only suspensions, then showing the 2nd yellow makes things much clearer.