The Bedge wrote:whufc wrote:scottroo wrote:3+1 suspended for the bloke from smithfield
Even as a mate of his I think that is slightly on the low side. I believe he has a really good record so they obviously took that into account but the footage looked pretty damming.
They don’t care about previous history anymore.
Was a low impact hit.. bloke got up straight after, took his kick and played out the game.
Video might look bad but I suspect it looked worse than it was - I’m still not convinced he actually clocked him in the jaw based on team mates reactions nearby and also his reaction to the red.
See personally I would be suspending the action.
Whilst he didn’t do to much damage that action itself could do devastating damage and the player throwing a punch doesn’t have total control over it.
Completely non football related violent act, I’m happy the league went ridiculously harsh on it. No place in sport for ‘belting’ someone, regardless if on this occasion the player copped it well.
That is type of act the league has to have no tolerance to and completely stamp out. For mine the area that gets blurred is the dangerous tackle stuff but at least a tackle is part of football