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Message: [QUOTE="LittleDavey, post: 3484695, member: 8255"] You seem to be missing the point, deliberately or not. No-one is fixated on the injury outcome except you. [B][U]Drinkwater shoulder charged Corey's face[/U][/B]. If Corey was walking or hell, even stationary, absolutely Drinkwater is still binned and still sits out a few weeks for it. Shoulder charges have been illegal for years now, everyone knows that. It's that simple. Now, I don't fully agree with a blanket ban on shoulder charges either, executed legally they were and have always been fine, but them's the rules. It's a high risk move that regularly goes wrong - just like this one did. Too many were going wrong - like this - so tougher rules were brought in to be more of a deterrent. I'm sure you know all this, you're a smart bloke who clearly knows the game. I was critical of the ban on Pat because the NRL unfairly beefed up his penalty for that one, specific incident. Not just because of the damage to Hastings but as a warning to other players. And they were open about this, they said it, this is not a 'conspiracy theory'. There was another hip drop just as bad - which did not result in injury - that same weekend which completely escaped punishment IIRC. I believe it's the inconsistency and the "making an example of" which most of us were up in arms about - not that Pat got banned. I think we would all have accepted what was the 'usual' penalty for a hip drop at that time, but no, Patty got special treatment and from memory something like double the time anyone else got for one - either before OR since! Let's not pretend that situation is in any way the same as this - a very straightforward breaking of a long-standing rule with plenty of prior examples. You didn't answer, either - if say a Flegler or a TPJ did [B][U]Drinkwater's exact tackle[/U][/B] on a Cleary or a Mitch Moses, how long do you think he'd get? [/QUOTE]

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