The precednt has already been set, you want to rewrite the precedent to send a message which is just ridiculous IMO. McLean deserves to be judged exactly the same as everyone else regardless of the emotion that surrounds this case. That's justice.
When the precedent allows people to become quadriplegics it is a bad bloody precedent. How do you not get that? Would you rather stick with a terrible precedent and increase the risk of things like this happening just so you can say you stuck with a precedent???
And if you want to talk about precedents, let's talk about Kade Snowden. McLean should get life if we are going by precedents, so I think you can drop that argument.
I'm not putting all the blame on McKinnon I'm just dissolving McLean of all the blame some people want him to feel. A large part of this incident is just bad luck no matter how much those grieving want to find someone to blame.
You said : "Mckinnon ducking is what did the damage, not Mclean's tackle".
Spare me with your "he has suffered enough mentally" crap. If he is not suspended, what sort of "precedent" does that set?
Yeah, a large part of the incident is bad luck...luck that came into play because of McLean's ILLEGAL tackle, which should be discouraged by a suspension. Are you intentionally being obtuse?
It is now obvious how we differ here.
I want to penalise all players who make illegal tackles beyond the horizontal that can have absolutely terrible consequences.
You want to let them go, and when another player has a horrible injury(or worse) as a result down the track, you will let the tackler go again because "the emotional trauma should be enough"...and thus the cycle of a terrible precedent continues.
I do not want more than a few weeks suspension here...but I cannot fathom how you think no suspension is the right way to go.
When these types of tackle start getting punished the way they deserve, wrestling coaches will stop coaching their players to use the tactic, and the game will become safer. Is that really worth less than a couple of weeks on the sideline for McLean?
