Hearts have submitted an appeal against Peter Haring's red card against St Mirren.
The midfielder was shown a straight red card in Paisley for a tackle on Mark O'Hara.
Haring looked to shut down a possible St Mirren break with a sliding tackle but was left stunned when he was given his marching orders by ref David Dickinson.
VAR checked the decision but Dickinson was not asked to take a second look with his on-field call backed by Greg Aitken.
Boss Steven Naismith said of the sending off: “The red card, I disagreed with. I thought it was a foul to stop the game from a counter.
"It was right in front of me, I didn't think it was aggressive or even the speed I don't think is excessive."
Now, Hearts have appealed the decision to the Scottish FA with a fast-track tribunal - date not yet confirmed - to be held.
A club statement confirmed: "The club can confirm it has today submitted a wrongful dismissal claim in regard to Peter Haring’s red card against St Mirren.
"No further comment will be made until the appeal has been heard."
On The VARdict, ex-referee Stuart Dougal said of the incident: "We can see a great clip there. It can't be for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity, or I don't think it can because we have got covering defenders there. It's clearly inside the attacker's half so you can't say that's denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity.
"The type of contact? Now, I can understand why the referee may have thought that there's enough in that because he is sliding in, the foot is raised. Has he missed a bit of contact, the referee might be thinking.
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— Heart of Midlothian FC (@JamTarts) May 15, 2023
"So, rather than taking his time, he's rushed in with a red card. I'm surprised VAR didn't say 'do you want to have a look at it again?'
"Again, what's the criteria? Is there a clear and obvious error? Now, you might look at that and think 'I think that's a clear and obvious error. Another match official can look at that and think 'I'm not sure it's a clear and obvious error, but'...and a word I'm now going to be using a lot is questionable.
"And I would like to see something softened in terms of the criteria where a referee is asked to go and review major decisions like penalties, goals, red cards.
"And I think that's questionable and as a former referee I would love to see that again just to double check."
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