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Message: [QUOTE="john1420, post: 3691582, member: 2077"] I hear ya [USER=9463]@Gaz[/USER] My comment that minor injuries shouldn’t double the penalty, actually wasn't an indication that I think that penalties / fines should reflect the extent or severity of injuries caused, it was just a reply to those people saying it justifies the difference in suspension between Mam and others. I am genuinely caught between two schools of thought with that. On the one hand, I think the action should entirely determine the penalty - the logic being the difference between a drunk (for example) driver losing control of his vehicle, crossing onto the wrong side of the road and causing no damage, and a drunk driver losing control of his vehicle, crossing onto the wrong side of the road and killing someone, is nothing but pure luck, or happenstance. Given the thing that they did wrong was identical, why should the penalties be different? But I totally understand the other side of the argument that the outcome determines the penalty, and that is the way our court system works, so it also makes sense that it applies elsewhere. I am genuinely happy with 9 weeks for Ezra (he should have received a hefty fine from the NRL too, not sure if that's still to come) I think it's a fair penalty for what he did when viewed in isolation. I also don't think anyone is fobbing it off as minor, non-Bronco fans are in an uproar over it for being too light, and I can't think of anyone here saying the incident is minor? My issue is purely the lack of a system to guide penalties. A system where someone or some panel, looks at an incident and thinks "yeah I reckon that's worth x weeks and x dollars" isn't a system at all. Take the Mam incident out of it, and think of the Leniu racism slur. He got 8 weeks. Who here has any confidence that the next person to use a racial slur will also get 8 weeks? I certainly don't, and that is my issue. [/QUOTE]

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