Darlington manager Dave Penney has admitted he find the finds the yellow card situation following the Morecambe game a strange one but has also accepted he understands some of the logic behind it.

Alan White was booked in the game which was abandoned after just twenty-two minutes. The yellow card however will stand and as a result both the defender and skipper Steve Foster are on four bookings - one away from suspension - going into this weekend's game with Chester City.

The rules also state that any suspensions which would have been served from that fixture would not have counted as being spent. This makes the situation even more bizarre but the Quakers' boss did admit that he understood why it was in place.

"It is strange that goals don't count but bookings do. If you are suspended for a game that is called off that doesn't count either. If you have gone a punched someone and you've got sent off then you have three games to come for that and rightly so regardless of any abandonment. But I think it is something that could be looked at," said the manager.

"It won't affect that game because it is going to be next year before we play Morecambe again. You are not going to start from twenty-two minutes you are going to start from scratch. I think it is perhaps an area that could be looked at and addressed and some sensible agreement reached."

Whilst the ruling as left supporters puzzled it leaves Quakers in a potentially difficult position. With both White and Foster now on four yellow cards it means both players could be missing at the same time if they are both booked in the same game.

Given how influential the pair have been together at the back this would be a real headache for Darlington. Penney though will simply get on with it: "That is the tightrope that we are walking at the moment but it is just the way it has worked out. We will just have to deal with it," said the manager.