Barnett elbow to the jaw

[Apey]

Going to guess 6 weeks.

How's this work btw? Because there's no grading, the judiciary can choose as many weeks as they like? Or do they still have to follow some sort of grading themselves?

Ez

 

[yobbo84]

Appallingly soft outcome and a horrible look for the game.

Yet another indicator that the level of media outrage has a direct influence on the resulting charge.

 

[nick87]

Gee that's f**king weak shit.
We're definitely going to see multiple accidental high shots see guys sit out longer than an intentional elbow to the face off the ball

All you can do is laugh... the judicary is a dice game, you're just rolling and hoping it goes in your favour on the night. Congrats to Barnett, his numbers came up.

 

[perverse]

Don't mind me, I'm just here for the outrage.

 

[shear_joy9]

Knights are better off without him. He’s a f**king awful player

 

[skeepe]

The NRL doesn’t give a shit about player safety. They proved it with the laughably weak punishments dished out for the cannonball epidemic, and they proved it again tonight.

How do they say that’s not intentional? What do you have to do to get an intentional charge if not that?

I’m absolutely flabbergasted at the lackadaisical approach the NRL are taking to foul play this season. Someone is going to get seriously hurt.

 

[macavity]

The NRL doesn’t give a shit about player safety. They proved it with the laughably weak punishments dished out for the cannonball epidemic, and they proved it again tonight.

How do they say that’s not intentional? What do you have to do to get an intentional charge if not that?

I’m absolutely flabbergasted at the lackadaisical approach the NRL are taking to foul play this season. Someone is going to get seriously hurt.

Hudson Young got 8 weeks for a flagrant eye gouge. On that standard this should have been a two week suspension.

 

[soc123_au]

Kissed on the dick by a fairy.

 

[skeepe]

Hudson Young got 8 weeks for a flagrant eye gouge. On that standard this should have been a two week suspension.

Shouldn’t you be jerking off Adam O’Brian in the toilets of the Honeysuckle Hotel?

 

[macavity]

Shouldn’t you be jerking off Adam O’Brian in the toilets of the Honeysuckle Hotel?

Shouldn’t you be watching?

 

[nick87]

Hudson Young got 8 weeks for a flagrant eye gouge. On that standard this should have been a two week suspension.

Haha! You tried! But you just couldnt do it Forever a fish in a barrel.

 

[Apey]

How do they say that’s not intentional? What do you have to do to get an intentional charge if not that?

I'm guessing what worked in his favour re: reckless vs intentional was not changing his line and having eyes for the play.

Seems like his counsel also successfully argued the point of contact for his elbow was Smith's chest and that his forearm is what hit his chin. Not that I agree with that, just what I got from reading the nrl.com summary.

 

[roofromoz]

Dartboard. Next week someone will sneeze 5m from the referee and get 12 weeks.

 

[Smug Panther]

Hudson Young got 8 weeks for a flagrant eye gouge. On that standard this should have been a two week suspension.

Both are deliberate acts to injure someone. Something that happens in a tackle can be forgiven but both these are on par and deserve 12 weeks minimum

 

[Vee]

The NRL doesn’t give a shit about player safety. They proved it with the laughably weak punishments dished out for the cannonball epidemic, and they proved it again tonight.

You missed NAS' swinging arm.

 

[macavity]

Both are deliberate acts to injure someone. Something that happens in a tackle can be forgiven but both these are on par and deserve 12 weeks minimum

you can’t tell the difference between placing your hands on a blokes face while he is on the ground and literally digging your fingers into his eyes in an attempt to seriously injure or blind him… and raising an arm too high when someone comes into your field of vision in a split second.

one is careless maybe even reckless, but happens in a split second. the other is trying to blind someone in a pre meditated way. Gouging like he did should get a life time ban.

 

[Smug Panther]

you can’t tell the difference between placing your hands on a blokes face while he is on the ground and literally digging your fingers into his eyes in an attempt to seriously injure or blind him… and raising an arm too high when someone comes into your field of vision in a split second.

one is careless maybe even reckless, but happens in a split second. the other is trying to blind someone in a pre meditated way. Gouging like he did should get a life time ban.

I know none of you knights fans actually believe this nonsense. He ran up and elbowed a bloke in the face 30m from the ball. He's a weak merkin

 

[macavity]

I know none of you knights fans actually believe this nonsense. He ran up and elbowed a bloke in the face 30m from the ball. He's a weak merkin

i think 6-8 weeks was about where it sits. So 6 isn’t some gross injustice.

On the other hand, gouging getting 8 was weak. And NAS getting nothing was too.

 

[ColdWetPanther]

The NRL doesn’t give a shit about player safety. They proved it with the laughably weak punishments dished out for the cannonball epidemic, and they proved it again tonight.

How do they say that’s not intentional? What do you have to do to get an intentional charge if not that?

I’m absolutely flabbergasted at the lackadaisical approach the NRL are taking to foul play this season. Someone is going to get seriously hurt.

Don’t always agree Skeepe, but I think you are 100% right here.

Watching NRL360 last night and K@nt was basically challenging the other panelists to say that is was deliberate; like it is some hideous crime to suggest that a guy who elbows another guy (who is looking the other way) in the face as he runs past did so intentionally.

The game always seems to suggest that we need to protect the perpetrators of these incidents; like they are some misunderstood toddler who are being picked on if punished. But there is little thought given to the journeyman player who has missed the opportunity to potentially establish himself in a good side because some thug decided to elbow him, or the guy who spent time in a hospital bed because an ex-teammate thought he should break his face or the guy who could have been blinded because some @rsehole decided to stick his finger knuckle-deep into his eye socket.

We are all part of the problem too. It’s terrible when it happens to our team and the guy should be rubbed out, but when it is one of our players who is the thug there was some mitigating circumstance or it is all a conspiracy against our club.

The game, the media and us supporters all need to do better!!

 

[skeepe]

i think 6-8 weeks was about where it sits. So 6 isn’t some gross injustice.

On the other hand, gouging getting 8 was weak. And NAS getting nothing was too.

You act as though Raiders fans disagreed with Young’s ban. I don’t think you’ll find a single one of us that wasn’t disgusted and thought he deserved it, but if pathetic whataboutism makes you feel better about excusing thuggery from your own club, go nuts buddy.