Awesome for diehard fans like you and I Garts. But those kinds of fans aren't going anywhere, the NRL isn't trying to lure us in, it already has us. It's trying hard to get the mums on board who are deciding whether to put their kids in under 6 footy or under 6 Soccer. People like that won't 'love the biff' like we do.
Anything that might make our code look like 'thugby' has been and always will be stamped out. What happened tonight used to happen every weekend in the 80s. Now it's gunna be all anyone talks about at least until judiciary night.
I can't see G Stewart and Blair playing again this year. Not because that's what I want to happen, but because of what the NRL needs to do to acheive its goals. And I could see quite a few others getting 1-2 weeks.
The thing is, and I might have to try and find the link.
They did a list on the most injuries in sport and RL and even Rugby are nowhere near the top.
Who's at the top? Soccer and, yep, AFL.
I think Blair and Stewart will get the most punishment but whoever said 12 weeks is out of their mind.
I'm a girl and I can't believe the sooking I'm seeing on here, it is a violent sport and these two teams are rivals.
4 weeks is enough for both the dukers and B.Stewart will get 1 or 2 (please stop over dramatizing it ppl, it wasn't that bad).
As for the others, nothing, but the clubs should get fined.
We want to make sure we put our foot down with punishments but I loved it...it was so tribal..it gives our sport some intensity.
