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Let’s think about this logically.
Hudson Young got a grade 3 dangerous contact (eye) charge. This was a lot worse, so at least a grade 4.
That’s a base of 700 points. Gurgess has one eye gouge and 3 other charges (for the benefit of the doubt we’ll say they’re non-similar) on his rap sheet, adding 350+140+140+140 points. This is another 770 points.
I don’t know how many carryover points he has, but it’s probably more than 30, which puts this at over 1500, or a 15 week holiday. With an early guilty plea, that’s 1125 points.
Any less than that and the NRL is kidding themselves.
The media (iirc The Sydney Morning Herald) have pointed out that Burgess' charge for gouging in the test last year will be a factor in any charge he gets from the NRL. Hence he will be looking at a +50% loading.