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Message: [QUOTE="Jason Simmons, post: 2805028, member: 8275"] He could have baked them a cake too. You can't judge someone by something he didn't do. Lodge is plenty guilty of assault, probably break and enter and threatening violence. Surely that is enough without imaging how it might have been worse? I think he will be a Bronco sooner rather than later however. This is due to the precedent set by the NRL over Russell Packer. Packer's assault charge took place in November 2013 and he was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment, reduced to 1 on appeal. He spent 2014 in prison and returned to NSW Cup in 2015. In 2016 he returned to NRL with the Dragons. Lodge's assault occured in October 2015. He wasn't sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a jurisdiction known to sentence people more harshly that we do, for this offence. He sat out league for the whole 2016 season and in 2017 he will return to Qld Cup. Based on this precedent NRL seems likely to allow him to play in 2018 if there are no further issues, and possibly later in 2017, given he was not sentenced to a term of imprisonment (ie: perceived seriousness of the offending). That is my view and if the NRL decide to register him, I'd rather he play for us than against... [/QUOTE]

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