John McGlynn believes that Celtic's Auston Trusty's sending-off against Hearts has influenced decisions across the Premiership.
The Falkirk manager indicated that other clubs are now feeling the repercussions of this precedent.
Trusty's red card for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity was initially a yellow but was upgraded to a red after a VAR review.
Last weekend, Falkirk's Liam Henderson was also red-carded against Dundee United, despite the foul occurring far from goal with another defender in position.
Aberdeen's victory over Motherwell in the Scottish Cup saw both Oscar Priestman and Liam Gordon sent off for similar offences.
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Both of which looked like dubious calls.
McGlynn believes all these incidents have a common factor—the decision on Trusty.
The Falkirk boss said: "We felt that, based on the Trusty one, it would be a complete and utter waste of time.
"It’s probably set a standard that they’ll go with now, I would suggest.
"The on-field decision would probably have been enough in all three of these situations, the Celtic, our one and then the one with Motherwell."
McGlynn explained: "I think no one would have complained too much, but because they’ve been given, there’s always two or three players who’ll get into the referee’s ear with regards to that, because obviously they can understand it’s going to be influential if a player gets sent off."
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