I agree with the sentiment here WRT a piece of foul play like this where the infringement isn't flagrant, deliberately violent or malicious. I still think a deliberate attempt to injure (punch, stomp, lift and throw, etc) should still see a match long sanction for your team, especially if the victim is off the field due to an injury caused by that event.
Not trying to derail the conversation, but Black Cards in gaelic football work well - I've never had one but got close after bloke fly kicked me in the hand during a match and I reacted with an elbow to the face. Relieved to only see red!
Black cards for sending off would be used about as often as sendings off were before the era of
"protecting the player" protocols. Incidents such as ear-biting (Johann Le Roux), eye-gouging (Richard Nones, David Attoub, Dylan Hartley, Mariano Galarza, Bakkies Botha, Richard Loe, Schalk Burger, Julien Dupuy, Marius Tincu, Troy Flavell et al) as well as perpetrators of violence such as punching, stomping, bag-snatching etc, where the intent to attempt to injure an opponent is both obvious and premeditated, should be sent from the field and not replaced.
This incident didn't meet those standards.
