Bristol Rovers will be hoping that they can avoid having another player pick up a suspension for reaching five bookings during the upcoming festive period with the Gas almost at the mark where it resets.
Rovers have recently seen Taylor Moore and Kamil Conteh miss matches after reaching the threshold of five yellow cards which warrants a one-game suspension in League One. However, this applies within the first 19 league games of the season, with the Gas playing 18 so far.
That means that this weekend’s trip to Birmingham City will be Rovers’ 19th of the campaign after last Saturday’s home game against Bolton Wanderers was postponed due to safety concerns amid Storm Darragh. Therefore, any bookings picked up after Saturday will contribute towards the next threshold.
Clinton Mola and Jamie Lindsay are both currently walking on a disciplinary tightrope with four league bookings each so far this term, meaning that if the left-back or midfielder were to be shown a yellow card against Birmingham this weekend, they would be suspended for the home game against Wrexham the following Saturday (December 21).
There seems to be some confusion in regards to Lindsay being on four with most statistics sites stating that the Scotsman is on three. However, he was shown a yellow card in matches against Wycombe, Huddersfield, Shrewsbury and Blackpool.
After Saturday, the next threshold will be 10 bookings picked up within 37 league games which warrants a two-game ban. Assuming that postponed matches at home to Bolton and Stockport County are rearranged for dates before, matchday 37 is currently scheduled to be the trip to Lincoln City on March 15.
It hopefully won’t get to this point for any players but should a player pick up as many as 15 bookings within that time, it would warrant a three game suspension.
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Having collected six yellow cards already, Moore will certainly have to improve his disciplinary record in order to avoid said suspension, as will Conteh.
In terms of other players’ yellow card tallies, Shaq Forde is the only players on three bookings, having picked up two of those in the 1-0 defeat at Reading, while a handful are on two and one respectively.
Bristol Rovers players’ league bookings so far this season
- Taylor Moore – six
- Kamil Conteh – five
- Clinton Mola, Jamie Lindsay – four
- Shaq Forde – three (two in one game)
- Gatlin O’Donkor, Promise Omochere, Ruel Sotiriou – two
- Chris Martin, Jack Hunt, Jake Garrett, James Wilson, Josh Griffiths, Luke McCormick, Michael Forbes, Scott Sinclair – one