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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 2482090, member: 1899"] Sam flies down to Sydney to plead his case tomorrow night. Hook has just released a public statement with some very interesting quotes - I wonder if it will influence the officials at all? "We certainly don't condone anyone direspecting officials or acting outside the spirit of the game," said Griffin. "Sam didn't touch the official, he grabbed him by the shirt. "He wasn't being aggressive towards the official, the referee was never in any danger. "He was frustrated and grabbed him by the shirt to demonstrate what had happened to him. "What I think is against the spirit of the game is the grabbing of our player trying to get out of the scrum. "And what else is against the spirit of the game is that the referees got that wrong - and that's their words, not mine. They told us they got it wrong." "What is within the spirit of the game is that Daniel Anderson has come out and said they got that wrong and Sam Thaiday shouldn't be charged," said Griffin. "My whole point is the NRL has discretion in the way they can use that. "It doesn't have to be straight away that we go to the charge book. "They can act in the spirit of the game too and realise there are a couple of things that go wrong in that instance and deal with it in another matter rather than just slapping a charge on someone." [/QUOTE]

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