ADAM Peek and James Wakeling believe the implementation of sin bins in the Essex Senior League will not make a positive impact.

It has been confirmed by the Football Association that sin bins will be introduced to step five and below as of next season.

As a result, Essex Senior League clubs will have to contend with the new disciplinary measure and Southend Manor boss Peek, whose side are fighting to stave off relegation from the division, is not in favour of the changes.

Peek said: “The standard of officials is questionable at times as it is.

“If you give them other reasons to disrupt the game, they will.

“I’ve been speaking to some other managers about it and we think it will turn a lot of people away from the Essex Senior League.

“It’s a farce and I don’t see the benefit of it.

“I don’t know how the officials will keep control of it and people will think that yellow card offences should be sin bins and the same with red cards.

“It will make more managers become irate.

“Sin bins aren’t used in professional football, so why should it be used in the semi-professional football?”

Sin bins will be used in cases of dissent, with the player shown a yellow card and then sitting out the next 10 minutes of the match.

The procedure has already been trialled further down the football pyramid, from the 2017/18 campaign.

But Wakeling, the assistant manager of Hullbridge Sports, feels sin bins could also lead to players suffering injuries.

“The saying goes ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ and that is the case here,” said Wakeling, whose side still might not be affected by the new ruling as they are fighting for promotion to the Isthmian North.

“I don’t agree with it. Football is football and sin bins shouldn’t be put in place.

“Referees have already got a lot to deal with at our level and this will just give them even more to control.

“Does it mean they will have to get another official to deal with it and keep track of when the 10 minutes are over?

“It could also lead to injuries because I don’t know where the players will go when they are sin binned.

“I know that in other sports they go on the training bikes to keep the muscles going and remain active in that time, but a lot of clubs at this level don’t have the money for resources like that.”

The sin bin scheme was originally conceived following a decision by the International Football Association Board that gave national associations the ability to implement temporary dismissals from the 2017/18 season at the grassroots level of the game.

While given discretion whether to use the scheme for all cautions or selected cautions, the Football Association chose to focus on matters of dissent - which amounted to 25 per cent of all cautions during the 2016/17 season - and directly support the Respect programme.

However, the 2019/20 campaign will now see sin bins used in all leagues from step five of the non-league ladder.

And Peek believes there will be only one positive to come from the implementation.

“The only positive is the fact that dissent is often in the heat of the moment,” added the Manor boss.

“Despite it being in the heat of the moment, players are regularly sent off for it.

“Now players might get a second chance by just being sin binned and having to go off for 10 minutes.

“But I don’t think a go between is needed because yellow and red cards work.”