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2024 Match Review & Judiciary charges

Apey

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Gyles points out that Collins out of most important game of season and would have missed GF had they made, then points out that a grand final should have no influence on the downgrade.
Reading the summary transcript, it's clear that Storm's lawyer was a moron, the NRL's was a walking contradiction, and the head of the judiciary was taking the piss with this request: “Finally in terms of the comparable incident you should strive for consistency. If you determine the Holmes tackle was inappropriately graded you should ignore it.”
 

Penrose Warrior

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No player in recent memory has been protected more than this asshole. 5 weeks including a GF is what the man thoroughly deserves given what he has escaped from in his career.
100%.

I don't think it's a grade 3 worthy tackle and I thought Suaalii's was worse, but I am happy that the dirty shit that NAS has made a cornerstone of his career has come back to bite him.

And stoked he's not available for the Kiwis.
 

Diesel

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Not surprised. That is what happened when you keep on with the illegal hits, finally, it catches up on you. It just happened to be a preliminary finalolololol
 

aqua_duck

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Reading the summary transcript, it's clear that Storm's lawyer was a moron, the NRL's was a walking contradiction, and the head of the judiciary was taking the piss with this request: “Finally in terms of the comparable incident you should strive for consistency. If you determine the Holmes tackle was inappropriately graded you should ignore it.”
Wouldn’t have mattered if he had OJ’s legal team the judiciary set up is akin to a courtroom in an authoritarian country where guilty verdicts are the expectation. For the record Nick Ghabar was the storm lawyer and this isn’t his first rodeo, he’s like one of the top go to judiciary defence counsel in the NRL and famously got simple Jack Wighton off a shoulder charge all the way back in 2016.
The issue is the NRL want the appearance of a fair and impartial trial when it’s just not the case.
Let’s face it, the judiciary is set up so 95% of cases just plead guilty because they know the chances of being acquitted are next to none
 

Apey

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Wouldn’t have mattered if he had OJ’s legal team the judiciary set up is akin to a courtroom in an authoritarian country where guilty verdicts are the expectation. For the record Nick Ghabar was the storm lawyer and this isn’t his first rodeo, he’s like one of the top go to judiciary defence counsel in the NRL and famously got simple Jack Wighton off a shoulder charge all the way back in 2016.
The issue is the NRL want the appearance of a fair and impartial trial when it’s just not the case.
Let’s face it, the judiciary is set up so 95% of cases just plead guilty because they know the chances of being acquitted are next to none
Yeah, they've made changes here and there over the last few years to pretty much encourage people not to challenge and just take their medicine.
 

aqua_duck

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Yeah, they've made changes here and there over the last few years to pretty much encourage people not to challenge and just take their medicine.
What’s silly is you have the MRC that works separately from the rest of the judiciary and hence has no real accountability in the proceedings.
With 95% of players not challenging and the MRC sitting outside the boundaries they’ve pretty much eliminated any precedents being used in attempted downgrades
 
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