Top referee David Gough has claimed that the GAA rulebook is full of glaring anomalies, one of which was apparent in the Ulster football final.
Gough was in charge of the Clones clash between Derry and Armagh when he showed Derry's Brendan Rogers a black card late in normal time.
The Slaughtneil man missed most of the first half of extra-time as a result yet if he had been red carded then Derry would have been allowed to replace him for the start of extra-time.
Gough described it as an 'absolute anomaly' and noted how Cork's Sean Powter, whom he black carded last weekend for cynically preventing a goalscoring opportunity in the Rebels' defeat to Kerry, resulting in a penalty concession which swung the game, would similarly have been better off getting red carded, as there wouldn't have been a penalty award.
"Noting offences, yellow cards and red cards don't carry through to extra-time," said Gough of the Rogers situation.
"So if you're on a yellow card, that yellow card disappears going into extra-time and you can receive a further two yellow cards in extra-time before you're sent off.
"However, the black cards do carry over. It's that messing around with card colours and what happens as a result in extra-time which makes it confusing for everyone.
"It would have been better for Brendan Rogers, if that's who it was, I can't remember who I black carded, if he'd committed a foul and was red carded so the Derry team could have restarted with 15 players."
Gough said that it is a 'bizarre scenario where the most serious infraction, which would be the red card, has a lesser punishment'.
He said he has raised this and various other rulebook issues with the GAA but has been largely ignored.
"There's a huge amount of anomalies in the rulebook as it currently stands," he claimed.
"And there's very little appetite or passion within that Standing Committee on Playing Rules to address those anomalies. I emailed them a list of about 20 anomalies almost five years ago now, when David Hassan came on, but there has been no change in them."