Tyrone secretary Dominic McCaughey believes Gaelic football's black card rule should be introduced to hurling to ensure the rules of the two codes are consistent with each other.

"If the black card remains in place for the code of football, it will be very difficult to continue to argue against its introduction to hurling," he writes in his annual report.

McCaughey says the black card needs to be extended to hurling "not just on the basis of the many examples of serious fouls that went unpunished in some of the major championship games in 2014, but on the grounds that we should have one set of disciplinary rules and sanctions for the same playing infractions in both codes."

Despite having reservations about the black card, which was introduced to football this year, the Tyrone secretary is prepared to give it more time to prove its worth.

"At the end of the first year of its implementation, it is probably too early to make a judgment on it due to, in the main to the irregular and sporadic use that has been made of it during football games.

"As with the application of the other two coloured cards, mistakes have been made, but it would appear that the sanctions associated with the black card have been overturned in a much higher percentage of cases than for red or yellow cards."

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