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Message: [QUOTE="Number6, post: 2977753, member: 9008"] Same issue every year with SOO and finals. Manufactured drama that sells papers but makes the game look like amateur hour. Another example of short term media at the cost of respect and long term interest for the game. Instead of talking about lawyers and technicalities surely better for the game to talk about the guys legendary career or hype the game? Said it before but think players should have exemptions from grade 1s for big games or my preference is a 250 points before ruled out for for GF and 200 for finals and SOO. Make them pay a big fine (I.e 25% of that weeks equivalent pay for grade 1 and double penalties for another in 12 months and maybe a ban for 3rd offence) and an hour of community service for each point they need to skim. For me grade 1 shouldn’t be anything other than this anyway. If club tries to reimburse player for the fine club gets huge penalty I.e 10x the fine for first offence, maybe 50x for next offence in 2 years. At moment week of is arbitrary anyway in terms of effect (I.e if injured anyway who cares or maximised if for a big game) and defeats purpose of putting best players on the park every week to sell the product. And every offence becomes a good news story with joe blonks visiting sick kids or doing coaching clinics. If don’t do community service in reasonable time their ban is multiplied 4 times and all pay docked until done. For retiring players - they get paid till November anyway I think so withhold equivalent weeks pay for each 40 hour week of service. As for the judiciary how much money would it save for clubs and the game to remove the lawyers and hearings for grade 1s? Spend some of it with good review committee so more players could be cited consistently, they can write a letter for their statement and appeal to judiciary only if they wish to out of their own pocket for grade 1s. Maybe 50% if fines go to charity of the year. Should still be an ok deterrent having to do 50 hours community service (half of 100 if take early plea) and have some hope of making players more rounded people rather than sitting on the sidelines stewing or partying. But of course too logical so never going to happen on NRL. [/QUOTE]

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