City Players & Yellow Card Suspensions

As we've got a few players closing in on 5 yellow cards, it's probably worth mentioning the rules and the City players at risk.

The suspension rules, for 21/22, are as follows:
5 yellows up to and including the 19th league match - 1 match suspension
10 yellows up to and including the 37th league match - 2 match suspension
15 yellows up to and including the 46th (final) league match - 3 match suspension
20 yellows up to and including the 46th (final) league match - to be determined by a Regulatory Commission

These are the City players approaching 5 yellow cards:
Paudie O'Connor 4 yellows
Elliot Watt 4 yellows
Callum Cooke 3 yellows
Liam Ridehalgh 3 yellows
Yann Songo'o 2 yellows

 

As I understand it, the suspensions apply as soon as they are reached.

So, say a player got booked in each of the first 5 matches, they'd serve a 1 match suspension. Then if they also got booked in each of the next 5 matches, they's serve an additional 2 match suspension. And then if they then got booked in each of the next 5 matches, they'd serve an additional 3 match suspension.

So, theoretically, it would be possible for a player to be suspended for a total of 6 matches, just through yellow cards, before the season had reached its halfway point.

So dealing with your examples:

• Player a would avoid suspension after their 5th booking (as it would be after the first cut off point) but, yes, they would have a 2 match suspension after their 10th booking.
• Player b would get a 1 match suspension after their 5th booking (as it would be before the first cut off point) and then they would also have a 2 match suspension after their 10th booking.

So, yes, they would have both received 10 yellow cards, but player b would have been suspended for 3 matches as opposed to player a's 2 matches.

 

I believe it is our 19th game.