But as we've seen it's no where near concistent enough, so we effectively have a few guys from the FA randomly banning people for 3 games which no doubt can and will alter the league table. Yet things such as clear cut penalties/dissalowed goals will never be corrected (and nor should they).
Violent conduct can be punished in other ways than 3 match bans if needs be. (And wouldn't it only be a 2 match ban if the referee had saw it anyway?)
A straight red is a 3 match ban I think.
The only thing that is wrong is the "ref saw it so we do nothing" approach. And even then I understand the logic but I still disagree.
I just don't really like bans at all tbh, half of the time they're far too harsh and they very rarely go the way of actually aiding the team that was 'felled' or what not, so when we're adding an inconsistent trial by TV dishing out these 3 match bans it's just too much imo.