2 weeks for hits miles away from the ball. I know we have the clean skin effect, but both were shocking.
I've never bought this cleanskin nonsense. There are a good few footballers running around that are considered thus, predominantly because they haven't been outed previously when they should have been, thus technically maintaining a clean record.
At any rate, a crime is a crime on the field, and every individual incident should be considered on its merits and punished accordingly, with no downgradings for "good behaviour".
The honchos would never admit it, but the competition has a credibility problem with its policing.
When you allow blokes to break opponent's jaws and noses when they don't have the ball on the simplified grounds that "they couldn't make a tackle", you're having a serious lend of yourself. Not being able to make a tackle does not give a player the green light to flagrantly take another player high.
They got it right with Wellingham, but it only serves to highlight how laughably ludicrous it is that incidents like Josh Kennedy's, to name a prime example, have gone unpunished.
