Ok....I just saw the cross eye gouge for the first time. (Sorry, I live in Texas, USA & footage isn't readily available here) I had a still photo & also the video footage to look at.
Ryan Cross should be outed from the game for a long, long, long time. If he plays again this year (including post season) then the NRL is an absolute joke. That was one of the most blatent eye gouges you could see. His fingertips were DIGGING into Morrisons eye. It's not like Cross' fingers were laying aross his eye socket or even the pads of his fingers were being pushed into the eye. It was a blatent digging action to the eye of Morrison with three of Cross' fingers......while Cross was looking at what he was doing the whole time no less. That was the most blatent attempt to injure the eyes I have ever seen (no wait, there was one by a South African rugby player that was worse). At any rate, Cross should not see another football for AT LEAST the rest of 2005 & probably a nice chunk of the beginning of season 2006 for mine.
To those of you suggesting that Cross' cowardice is somehow less of a crime because it was performed on a "serial offender" such as Glenn Morrison, f***in' wake up to yourselves. The victim is absolutely & unequivocally irrelevant. No player deserves to have that done to them on a sporting field. I am not at all trying to excuse the past behaviour of Morrison but his past or future actions for that matter have ZERO to do with the heinous act that Cross took it upon himself to commit on Friday night.
Cross needs to go & go for a long, long time. I can't wait to see how the NRL handles this matter. If he doesn't go, & for length, the game & the judiciary system in particular is in dire straits.
