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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 3497858, member: 8215"] I've always held the Gillett binning as a legitimate accident. IIRC the ref even apologised to him after the game. I will add to the list: * Blair being neutered out of the game. He was often pinged for the tiniest things. But the worst one was where he (fairly and legally) walloped a guy that didn't see it coming. It was the stereotype "hit too hard". He was binned for a high tackle, but replays showed zero contact with the head. So instead the judiciary charged him with a shoulder charge, even though contact was with his chest & arm. * TPJ being heavily penalised and suspended, yet since his move to the Bulldogs you'd think he's a cleanskin, despite his aggressive style being identical. I guess it's hard to be suspended when you're injured though. * Flegler. Since TPJ left, he's been the over-scrutinised Broncos enforcer. There was that one game where he was put on report 3 times (including one that was literally a "too hard" tackle as it didn't fall in to the category of any actual illegal acts), was binned, and then suspended for very minor acts. * Carrigan bearing the brunt of the "crackdown" on hip-drops, despite not matching the definition of a hip-drop, and despite the judiciary finding that it wouldn't have been dangerous at all had the player not been pushed backwards by other tacklers. There have been numerous similar tackles since then, similarly not classic "hip drops" but still resulting in the player bringing down their body weight on the legs while holding the torso, on some occasions where the single tackler was solely responsible for the action & potential danger, and yet we have seen nothing close to the drama whipped up by the media nor the NRL. [/QUOTE]

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