Slater to be suspended AGAIN

[Lowdown]

Not sure if the wording below is right, but it seems to indicate 2 weeks if he fights it or not. In that case, fight the charge Billy - you've nothing to lose.

Fair dinkum, what is this sport coming to with charges like these getting 2 weeks! It was a deadset love tap. Worse things happen in practically 50% of all tackles involving a forearm to the head or next on the ground. You can punch someone in the head, and get nothing for it...

Oh well, let's just put Inglis to fullback, and take it out on the Broncos.



Source: Foxsports.com.au:
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,20045154-23214,00.html

Slater facing third suspension

August 07, 2006
MELBOURNE fullback Billy Slater faces a third suspension of the season after he was charged with grade-one striking in Storm's weekend win against Wests Tigers.
Slater, who has missed nine matches through suspension already in 2006, will miss two games if he enters an early plea or if he fights the charge at the judiciary and is found guilty.

Storm teammate Brett White was also charged by the NRL match review committee, in his case for a grade-one careless high tackle against Jamaal Lolesi.

The prop will escape a ban if he makes an early guilty plea, however.

Newcastle captain and halfback Andrew Johns heads the list of other players charged.

Johns was charged with striking opposite number Josh Lewis in the Knights' win over Sydney Roosters yesterday, but he can escape a suspension with an early guilty plea.

Tigers five-eighth Shane Elford was handed a grade-one striking charge, while South Sydney captain Peter Cusack, like White, was charged with making a grade-one careless high tackle.

Elford and Cusack can both escape suspension with an early guilty plea. AAP

 

[Collingwood Storm]

storm will challenge for sure...2 week suspension either way

there was nothing in it...it wasnt like he swung his forearm into him, slater flopped on top and his arm brushed his neck definitely wasnt a striking action

 

[mulvihill]

Slater deserves longer the cheap shot prick

 

[Sugar]

i didnt see it but was it worse than webb firing 9 into smiths head

 

[PARRA_FAN]

He cant take a trick, if he gets suspended he'll lose his fullback spot for the rest of the year.

 

[shadow grinder]

....2 weeks seems fair.

 

[Collingwood Storm]

He cant take a trick, if he gets suspended he'll lose his fullback spot for the rest of the year.

slater's best position is fb and is below par anywhere else...inglis is a star no matter where he plays

would storm play one of slater, inglis, king, webster, turner and geyer on the bench during finals?

 

[innsaneink]

storm will challenge for sure...2 week suspension either way

there was nothing in it...it wasnt like he swung his forearm into him, slater flopped on top and his arm brushed his neck definitely wasnt a striking action

LOL youre a f**king one eyed biased moron.... yeh brushed his neck :roll: thats why

McDonnell, a 19-year-old rookie, was sporting a lump on the side of the head after the game but insisted the contact was "accidental".

http://www.smh.com.au/news/league/s...ine-off-victory/2006/08/06/1154802755390.html

How shann knows it was an accident is anyones guess.

 

[Mr Saab]

i didnt see it but was it worse than webb firing 9 into smiths head

Thats the BS in it all. Webb can unload with a flurry of punches and not get any suspension, yet if he broke his jaw he would.

 

[LESStar58]

I knew Whitey would escape with nothing more than carry over points.... he just has to make sure he doesn't do anything silly.

As for Billy, there was absolutely nothing in that forearm...

 

[shadow grinder]

i dont think he meant to put the elbow/forearm into his head...but he did flop over to try put the shoulder in, well thats what it looked like...put he connected with the blokes head. No excuses tho...he know what he did...everyone saw it...and deserves what he gets.

 

[Hellsy]

Here is the official charge sheet:

if it doesn't work you may have to refresh

 

[skeepe]

I was hoping Slater would get 3 weeks. As a Raiders fan I certainly wouldn't have objected.

If I were Slater though, I'd take the early plea. Less carry-over points for next time (13 as opposed to 63).

 

[Sugar]

Thats the BS in it all. Webb can unload with a flurry of punches and not get any suspension, yet if he broke his jaw he would.

so the message the nrl is sending>you can punch someone as long as they dont
get injured :crazy:

 

[Noa]

Billy, Billy ,Billy . Oh well I guess we'll have to throw that young Inglis kid back there and hope he's up to the job.

 

[Gus22]

Slater's a cat!

Once again a cheap shot on a player in a defenceless position laying on the ground.

He dropped a forearm onto the head of player on the ground - nothing in it? You're kidding yourself! The fact no damage was done was due to good fortune & nothing else.

BTW, Elfords forearm was no better, he'll escape suspension because he's not a serial offender however.

 

[fulltime]

dirty cheap shot artist.
4 offenses in 2 years.

Billy the Cat won't be in the NRL for too much longer at this rate.
Stomping Billy will end up in the UK.

 

[Dani]

And people wonder why i dislike Slater...

 

[Lancelot Link]

i didnt see it but was it worse than webb firing 9 into smiths head

The judiciary & charge panel make NO sense at all! Earlier this year - Mark O'Meley unleashes a hundred onto Bryce Gibbs' chin (Although Gibbs the little puss HAD just dropped a forearm onto a prone and helpless O'Meley's face! But still - is it an offence to retaliate - or isn't it??? It's one - or the other! Black - or white - Simple!.....or so you would think anyway!)

Nothing. No charge. Gibbs at least got a week for his forearm - but would have been out that round thru injury anyway - but @ least its on his record!

Then Utai comes into a 'brawl' as 'third man' - and throws a short right into a players stomach that I doubt he even FELT - and cops a couple of weeks out!

Consistency is a word the NRL judiciary & review panel use only to describe their gravy - but certainly not for their decisions/charges!

Personally I say BRING BACK THE BIFF! Retaliation be damned! But ffs - if you're go9ing to apply a rule - then apply it to EVERYBODY equally!

 

[brook]

Elford and Cusack can both escape suspension with an early guilty plea. AAP

Damnit I was hoping we could get him out of first grade finally....