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Message: [QUOTE="LittleDavey, post: 3430844, member: 8255"] I read this today and nearly hit the fucking roof. I'm sorry, I might be an outlier amongst league fans, and I might be biased cos it's our future captain, but I simply cannot accept this is in any way fair and reasonable based largely on the sections I've bolded and underlined and will repeat here: [B][U]"player Carrigan applied a significant level of force, and his actions gave rise to a commensurately high risk of injury; that risk materialised[/U][/B],...[B][U]the force was applied by player Carrigan"[/U][/B] GTFO of here. As the Broncos' doctor witness apparently unsuccessfully argued, the force which caused the injury was NOT applied by Carrigan, it was applied by the two other men in the tackle pushing Hastings' back over the top. As I've said on here before, if they dragged him forwards, Pat wouldn't have contacted his legs at all. Therefore the force was NOT applied by "player Carrigan" you fucking numpties. Also zero mention that the referee hadn't called "held" therefore Pat had a very reasonable reason to get involved in the tackle. "[B][U]the panel was mindful of the fact that neither of the other two players had committed any illegal act, and that player Carrigan had acted carelessly"[/U][/B] Ohhhh so now it's about "a dude got injured so someone needs to pay"? "[B][U]it was necessary to again make it clear to all players that dangerous contact of this kind in particular has no place in the game...[B][U]there was a fundamental need for the penalty in this case to carry with it a strong element of both personal and general deterrence"[/U][/B][/U][/B] There it is RIGHT THERE IN BLACK AND WHITE. To paraphrase, "we need to go hard as **** on someone and this guy will do" - regardless of what actually happened. We called it on here - they will make an example of him - and that's exactly what they have done, they even say it in their press release. Pat is not being punished solely for his actions here, he is being punished for others' as well and that is patently unfair. Especially considering that on the same weekend we also see: - a 110kg+ forearm to the head with clear intent, which breaks 2 of the bloke's teeth, go totaly unpunished and even defended by the NRL; - a nearly identical tackle which also resulted in a long-term injury to another player also go completely unpunished; - an old-style spear tackle about as nasty as they come punished with only one more week out of the game. I'm annoyed as **** that the best defence we could provide focused on a tackle from 2020 (?) rather than more recent examples. And some of our arguments seemed pretty poor given the circumstances. But **** me dead, the NRL admit that Pat is being made an example of. The punishment does not fit the crime. Paging [USER=8215]@Morkel[/USER] - and anyone who doesn't believe there are at least subconscious biases against our club in this administration. The NRL can get fucked, honestly. [/QUOTE]

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