YORK City's disciplinary record has been hailed as "brilliant" by manager Russ Wilcox.

No team in the Premier League or Football League boasts a lower yellow card tally than the 16 shown to Minstermen players this term.

It is a figure that can only be matched by Sky Bet League One leaders Bristol City from England's top four divisions and Wilcox believes such high standards of self-control can help the team's attempts to keep clean sheets.

Red cards to Russell Penn and Ryan Jarvis - the latter during Wilcox's first game in charge when Shrewsbury won 1-0 at Bootham Crescent - mean Hartlepool and Exeter lie above City in the League Two Fair Play Table.

With the club having gone four matches without a caution, Penn and Marvin McCoy, meanwhile, both had their names taken during Saturday's 1-1 draw against Plymouth but Wilcox was still greatly encouraged by the visitors' low foul count at Home Park.

He said: "Our disciplinary record is brilliant and it's something I've touched upon. We only committed six fouls in the whole game on Saturday and that's important because, at this level, every time you give a free-kick away, the ball comes into your box and you have to limit the number of opportunities the opposition get to do that."

The Plymouth trip also marked the Football League's end-of-November, cut-off date for players to avoid incurring a one-match suspension for receiving five bookings.

Penn came closest to incurring that penalty, having picked up a fourth yellow in Devon.

The City skipper will now be hoping to avoid reaching ten cautions before the two-game ban deadline on April 12.

Wilcox added, meanwhile, that he had received positive reports concerning on-loan striker Carlton Morris' two-goal performance for his parent club Norwich's Under-21 side this week.

The 6ft 2in striker made his debut as a 77th-minute substitute at Plymouth and Wilcox is hoping he will feature again when a big and powerful AFC Wimbledon side visit Bootham Crescent for City's next fixture a week on Saturday.

"I spoke to Paul Wilkinson, who is an academy coach at Norwich and he told me Carlton did well," Wilcox said. "He got two goals against a strong Fulham team and we will also be getting his DVD clips from the game.

"He got 90 minutes, along with his goals, so he will be coming back full of confidence. I brought him in to give us something different and he fits the bill so, hopefully, he can build on the 15 minutes he got at Plymouth."