What I haven’t been able to get my head around for a long time is, blokes get put on report, particularly in cases where there’s an injury as a result of their action and there’s multiple replays for the bunker, and they get either 10 mins or put on report - yet then cop 2, 3, 4 week suspensions. Surely if an action is so serious that it is worthy of even a 1 week suspension, then it should be a send off?
Back in the day, you could only get a ban if you’d been sent off.
As with many other things, if the NRL just applied the rules as they were intended, the problem would disappear….. Serious act of foul play, send off…. Players would think twice about cannon balls, hip drops, crushers (the real ones) if they knew they’d get marched if caught. There needs to be an immediate sanction to stop it happening - the ability for the opposition to hand out immediate physical retribution would also help.