7:49am Thursday 18th March 2010
By Echo Reporter
JASON Puncheon is walking a disciplinary tightrope as he is just one yellow card away from a two-game ban.
The Saints midfielder collected his ninth booking of the season as Saints lost 1-0 to Swindon at St Mary’s on Tuesday night.
Ten bookings for the season will earn Puncehon a two-game ban – but if he can survive until April 11 without collecting another yellow then he will not receive a suspension for the totting up process.
Puncheon could potentially figure in five Saints games between now and April 11.
There is no danger of him missing the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy final because he is already ineligible to play having figured in the competition already this season for MK Dons.
But having made such a big impact he would be hoping to have a place in the teams to face MK Dons, Hartlepool, Brighton, Leyton Orient and Charlton in League One before April 11.
Any player who receives 15 yellow cards in a season picks up a three match ban.
Thankfully for Alan Pardew though Puncheon is the only Saints player who is having to tread carefully.
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