Was always going to get the book thrown at him for this.
Do have a certain sympathy with Dimes observation that the comments were in a private context not meant for public broadcast. Workplace abuse and all that, but also the aftermath of a sporting event where emotions can run high, and I'd like to think that the officials would have been robust enough to have responded the first incident along the lines of "You're out of order, but sit down, shut up and we'll put it down to heat of the moment". But coming back for a second round with one of them a bit later was dumb.
Dimes did openly wonder why his ban was the same as Venter's for eye contact. Kind of hard to disagree with that.
He'd be praising community refs a few days before. But in the current climate you have to keep control and he didn't.
