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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3431057, member: 9052"] There are several stupid components of his argument. Apparently this was their opportunity to go all out on the suspensions..... but why not use the Fuimuano incident from the trials that resulted in an ACL rupture??? Which also happened to occur before the "updates" to the judiciary system?? Also players are currently doing this tackle because no one has been heavily punished to date.... how would it be fair and appropriate to hit Carrigan hard by effectively amending the definition and punishment of hip drop tackles after the fact and then applying the "new" punishment retrospectively. He's just completing a tackle in the same way 100's if not 1000's have already been completed this season, but because it results in injury you suddenly increase the punishment tenfold. Apparently the NRL have been warning them for weeks about cracking down on this tackle.... did the NRL use this as an opportunity to amend the definitions and punishments for hip drop tackles in the MRC process?? Theres precedent to do this as they did on shoulder charges, crushers and head high shots over the last few years. If a grade 2 hip drop was known to be an insufficient punishment weeks ago why didnt they ramp it up back then, instead of sending a Grade 2 incident to the judiciary to try and manufacture a more severe result. [/QUOTE]

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