Galway manager Anthony Cunningham believes the 2020 Hurling Review Committee's proposal to allow a player who picks up a second yellow card to be substituted will encourage cynicism in the small ball code.

Liam Sheedy and his committee unveiled their 15 proposals yesterday and that one has raised most eyebrows.

"That might just invite more fouling," Cunningham opined to The Irish Times, "it mightn't work out because definitely if you have a defender on a yellow card and now if they know they can be substituted and there's ten minutes left, of course they're going to take one for the team won't they?

"If there's a few minutes left and Richie Power is running through then you're going to take him out.

"In the league semi-final this year we had a man going through and he would have scored a goal, there's no doubt, but he was just taken down on the 21.

"If you have a smart defender it's going to introduce cynicism in the last ten or 15 minutes of matches."

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