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Has it come through yet?
Second rower Ben Smith received a grade two dangerous contact with kicker charge and with an early guilty plea still amasses 187 points and has to serve a game.
However prop Fui Fui Moi Moi only received a grade one careless high tackle charge.
With his loading Moi Moi is hit with 112 points but with his 25 per cent discount for an early guilty plea he is down to 84 points and is eligible to play.
For me Fui's arm wasn't swinging, straight armed him, I give Fui BOD that he was attempting a legit tackle but did adjust his arm to where Prince's head wasn't therefore tackle definitely careless and deserved penalty. You also see a thousand times worse swinging arms when a player dives on a loose ball, basically a signal for anyone nearby to get in a cheap shot to the side or back of the head, and a good deal of those go unpenalised every week.I love Fui, but how was his incident worse than Smith's?
I know some of you guys reckoned Benny's was worse, but honestly - after watching the replays - Fui's was worse in my opinion. Smith was in the air and was careless with his elbow - Fui swung his arm right into the by then restrained Prince's head...
People accuse Hayne of being a show man....Prince was hit high but I mean he really did a good job selling it like he had gotten shot.
IMO being third man in with a swinging arm to the head is worse than a lazy elbow while you're already in the air. But to each their own, I guess.
If Benny wanted to put pressure on Prince he shouldn't have his elbow raised like that. It was dangerous and he should have known if he made contact it would be ugly.
Well, neither FFMM or Smith should be charged for such a minor offense. But we've seen it time and time again with soft things ending up at the judiciary, I do hope that both of them choose to fight the charges, looking at both incidents in question, none of them should warrant having to take an early guilty plea and get carryover points as a result, NRL is basically treating halfbacks like daddy's little girl.benny didnt intentionally have his arm raised. i doubt he neither wanted to make contact with the kicker. all he wanted to do was apply pressure.
this is how i see it:
1.ben smith is running at prince at a certain speed
2. as prince kicks, benny jumps to provide more pressure and maybe hope of getting a charge down?
3. as he is jumping he turns away to protect himself of getting the ball kicked into his face
4. because of momentum and smith's turning body, he accidently elbows prince in the face
No malice in the incident whatsoever.. crap explanation i know but i can only do as much with my brain capacity