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Message: [QUOTE="Thelmus, post: 2977775, member: 8988"] I can't see why no one sees an issue with suspensions where an offence is deemed worthy of being banned for several games but not one munute (sometimes not even a penalty) in the game where it is committed. It encourages both recklessness with the guilty party, danger to his victim and sheer cowardlyness by the officialdom, afraid to make any decision that may impinge on a match result. It is a symptom of adopting an American system of repercussions, that itself was designed to be toothless from the srart in the sport it was borrowed from (nfl) If we really wanted foul play stamped out, the game it was committed would need serious repercussions. Since a send-off as we know it now is almost never used, yet multi-game suspensions happen every week (the incident it springs from always impinges the victim from the game than the guilty team), there must be a rethink. I suggest a solution in a "send-off" where the player sent off is replaced as part of the mix, and the continued use sin-binning of minor infringes. Where teams cause a penalty in their defensive 20 metres, a sin bin happens until a change of possession/score. We need refereeing with teeth, but also cibsistancy. So called "policing" to keep the game flowing does not work and is destroying its integrity, leading to a lottery of referee indecisiveness where everyone loses. [/QUOTE]

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