Nate Myles suggested it warranted a sin-binning, and suggested the NRL should looking into banning open-hand slapping. Klemmer slap on Daly Cherry-Evans was also unprovoked which aides Myles case for sin-binning.
NRL won't bring in suspension for open slap, they already are taking heat from current and former players on the no punch rule.
"MANLY forward Nate Myles has called on the NRL to ban the open-handed slap, saying players should be sin-binned just as they are for punching.
Myles’ Sea Eagles teammate Daly Cherry-Evans was on the end of a hard opened-handed hit from Canterbury enforcer David Klemmer in Manly’s 36-0 flogging of the Bulldogs on Saturday. Klemmer was penalised for the hit, but remained on the field and was not charged by the match review committee.
Myles is better qualified than most when it comes to on-field hits and the ramifications in rule changes from the NRL.
He copped the closed fist of Paul Gallen in the 2013 State of Origin series, an act which saw punching immediately outlawed from the game.
And he said it’s time the NRL took the same sort of action on slapping. “I don’t think the game should allow or compensate (it) whether it’s a slap or a punch,” Myles said.
“It’s just stupid.
“If you walk down the street and punch someone and slap someone, it’s the same sort of judgment.”
Myles saved some criticism for the Bulldogs enforcer too.
Klemmer was the only Bulldogs forward to top 100 running metres, and Myles suggested the hit would have come out of some serious frustration at his performance."
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