Sproj
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- Sep 6, 2013
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I'm doubling down here because to me, this week has highlighted so many issues with the NRL but I really think this is not getting the air time it should be.
I put this in the origin thread but fear it will be brushed over:
I didn't watch the game BUT according to the charge sheet, Ola'kau'atu is facing only a 2-3 game suspension for being involved in the melee.
Wait a minute, this is a guy WHO WAS NOT IN THE TEAM AND NOT 18TH MAN. This guy should be facing a life time ban (I am not saying he should be, I'm just saying an example needs to be made here, goodness me).
No wait, before going off your heads at this being overboard, RE-READ WHAT I CAPITALISED ABOVE.
He was NOT IN THE TEAM, so essentially, this is a guy who has come from the stands to join in a fight. How is more not being made of this? If this was any other spectator getting involved, they would be facing a life time ban and a MASSIVE fine. Why is this different?
Now this is in the same week as the idiot in charge of officiating coming out and saying we have to suspend Kennedy for running into a referee who got himself in the way because, and look, try not to laugh while I quote the bloke:
"We can never get to a stage where we make it permissible to move a referee out of the way, regardless of if he is in the way or not,"
"It's not very hard to get yourself into a position where you can have the referee between you and the ball or a defender.
"And the next thing you know is there is a collision, and 'oh sorry, it was an accident'.
"They would say 'you don't get in trouble for hitting the referee in the NRL, why am I getting charged for hitting a referee in the local park?'
"We can never get to that stage."
So...we are suspending a player because THE REF MADE A MISTAKE so that some incoherent babbling doesn't occur locally.
However, we are only giving 2 weeks (with an early guilty plea) to a guy who is essentially a spectator getting involved in a fight with players.
This is just insanity.
I put this in the origin thread but fear it will be brushed over:
I didn't watch the game BUT according to the charge sheet, Ola'kau'atu is facing only a 2-3 game suspension for being involved in the melee.
Wait a minute, this is a guy WHO WAS NOT IN THE TEAM AND NOT 18TH MAN. This guy should be facing a life time ban (I am not saying he should be, I'm just saying an example needs to be made here, goodness me).
No wait, before going off your heads at this being overboard, RE-READ WHAT I CAPITALISED ABOVE.
He was NOT IN THE TEAM, so essentially, this is a guy who has come from the stands to join in a fight. How is more not being made of this? If this was any other spectator getting involved, they would be facing a life time ban and a MASSIVE fine. Why is this different?
Now this is in the same week as the idiot in charge of officiating coming out and saying we have to suspend Kennedy for running into a referee who got himself in the way because, and look, try not to laugh while I quote the bloke:
"We can never get to a stage where we make it permissible to move a referee out of the way, regardless of if he is in the way or not,"
"It's not very hard to get yourself into a position where you can have the referee between you and the ball or a defender.
"And the next thing you know is there is a collision, and 'oh sorry, it was an accident'.
"They would say 'you don't get in trouble for hitting the referee in the NRL, why am I getting charged for hitting a referee in the local park?'
"We can never get to that stage."
So...we are suspending a player because THE REF MADE A MISTAKE so that some incoherent babbling doesn't occur locally.
However, we are only giving 2 weeks (with an early guilty plea) to a guy who is essentially a spectator getting involved in a fight with players.
This is just insanity.