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2024 Match Review & Judiciary charges

Saxon

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Melbourne Storm and Jahrome Hughes have reluctantly accepted the early plea and grading for his contrary conduct charge from Saturday night.

Whilst both Jahrome and the club fully support and totally endorse the protection of referees in our game, we believe Saturday’s incident was an accident.

Further, we believe the contact was unavoidable and the grading on the incident was too harsh given the circumstances where Jahrome was concentrating on making an important tackle in the context of the game and not fixated on the movements of the referee.

Jahrome has reached out to referee, Chris Butler, to apologise and reinforce that his actions were unintentional.

We are disappointed that an unsuccessful challenge on the grading would have also resulted in an extra week suspension.

We acknowledge the system is in place to avoid judiciary hearings but, in this case, we believe the risk of the penalty for contesting the charge is too high considering the circumstances of the incident.

In the end, the threat of an extra week suspension on top of our club’s bye next weekend was the overriding factor in our decision but we don’t believe this is a fair outcome.
Way too tame a response by the Storm IMO.
Expressions like "brain dead administration", "no feel for the game", "massive over reaction", "consistency" and "stupid blind f*ck should have got out of the way" would have been appropriate.

I understand their reasoning and unfortunately agree that it's not a hill worth dying on, but it's a bitter pill to swallow after comparison to Luai last year.
 
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This Year?

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I think the Hughes suspension is wrong. IMO he pushed the ref out of the way to prevent a collision.
That situation could have been much worse if he didn't do it.
 

Warriors Fever

Juniors
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Luai purposely shoved an official and got no suspension.
Hughes ran into one and gets a week.
Seriously what has Luai got on the nrl judiciary that they can never suspend him?
 

League Unlimited News

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Canterbury v Gold Coast​

No players charged.

St George Illawarra v North Queensland​

Jesse Marschke (St George Illawarra)
  • Grade 1 Careless High Tackle on Chad Townsend (24 min)
  • Base penalty $1500
  • His options
    $1500: plea of no contest / guilty at judiciary
    $1000: guilty - early plea
  • PLEA: TBC

Wests Tigers v Cronulla​

Api Koroisau (Wests Tigers)
  • Grade 1 Dangerous Contact on Toby Rudolf (10 min)
  • Base penalty $1500
  • His options
    $1500: plea of no contest / guilty at judiciary
    $1000: guilty - early plea
  • PLEA: TBC
Stefano Utoikamanu (Wests Tigers)
  • Grade 1 Careless High Tackle on Toby Rudolf (10 min)
  • Base penalty $1500
  • His options
    $1500: plea of no contest / guilty at judiciary
    $1000: guilty - early plea
  • PLEA: TBC
Cameron McInnes (Cronulla)
  • Grade 1 Careless High Tackle on John Bateman (48 min)
  • Base penalty $1500
  • 3 year incident free discount
  • His options
    $1000: plea of no contest / guilty at judiciary
    $750: guilty - early plea
  • PLEA: TBC
 

mozza91

Coach
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So Rapana does it and it’s not even a penalty. Leo Thompson does and he could get 2 weeks for it?

Gotta love that wonderful consistency that’s the cornerstone of the NRL.
 

Bazal

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So Rapana does it and it’s not even a penalty. Leo Thompson does and he could get 2 weeks for it?

Gotta love that wonderful consistency that’s the cornerstone of the NRL.

Jordy Rapz is just an incorrigible mischievous young lad
 

Apey

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Relevant to the topic imo. Feel free to move it somewhere else if you don't agree mods.
Pretty sure the MRC are the only ones who didn't think it should be a charge, given their own precedent that is linked in the article.
 

skeepe

Immortal
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So Rapana does it and it’s not even a penalty. Leo Thompson does and he could get 2 weeks for it?

Gotta love that wonderful consistency that’s the cornerstone of the NRL.
Completely different scenarios. Thompson was running directly towards Papenhuyzen, who went straight up, and took his legs out.

Rapana was running towards the ball, Metcalf jumped to the side into his path before the ball arrived.
 

mozza91

Coach
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Completely different scenarios. Thompson was running directly towards Papenhuyzen, who went straight up, and took his legs out.

Rapana was running towards the ball, Metcalf jumped to the side into his path before the ball arrived.
Both had eyes for the ball, took out the legs and the result was the same. They’re virtually identical and the punishment or lack there of should be the same.
 

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