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<blockquote data-quote="RedruthRFC" data-source="post: 1015840" data-attributes="member: 58362"><p>Having finally got around to looking over the sanctions and checked out his record (and with the benefit of hindsight), I think he's bang to rights, if not a bit lucky to have got off so lightly.</p><p></p><p>As per the Tweet, he's been banned for "disrespecting the authority of a match official" (insert Eric Cartman GIF here), which seems a bit strange given that "making physical contact with a match official" is an option, but ultimately it makes no difference, given that the low end of the latter is also 6 months. I'm assuming that he apologised to the referee at the time, admitted guilt (why wouldn't you) and conducted himself at the hearing and has received mitigation accordingly. Given his previous form, consisting of a long ban for gouging, at least one other and bringing the game into disrepute by being found guilty of sexual assault, he certainly wouldn't have received a reduction for good behaviour. I say he's been lucky on the basis that I believe that bans can be increased on the basis of previous conduct. Given how bad his has been, I don't think it would be unreasonable for it to result in a sufficient extension to at least write off the mitigation, if not extend the ban past the six weeks.</p><p></p><p>FWIW, I'm not commenting on the rights and wrongs of the prescribed sanctions, just the way that they've been applied. Given that the list of sanction is available for anyone to read and we're talking about a professional player here, I have a hard time feeling any sympathy. That said, I think he was a bit unlucky given that this was the first weekend of the celebration ban. A week earlier, his energy would have gone into juggling / licking / dry routing / picking up a team mate and we wouldn't have this thread. However, you couldn't reasonably expect the judicial process to account for this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RedruthRFC, post: 1015840, member: 58362"] Having finally got around to looking over the sanctions and checked out his record (and with the benefit of hindsight), I think he's bang to rights, if not a bit lucky to have got off so lightly. As per the Tweet, he's been banned for "disrespecting the authority of a match official" (insert Eric Cartman GIF here), which seems a bit strange given that "making physical contact with a match official" is an option, but ultimately it makes no difference, given that the low end of the latter is also 6 months. I'm assuming that he apologised to the referee at the time, admitted guilt (why wouldn't you) and conducted himself at the hearing and has received mitigation accordingly. Given his previous form, consisting of a long ban for gouging, at least one other and bringing the game into disrepute by being found guilty of sexual assault, he certainly wouldn't have received a reduction for good behaviour. I say he's been lucky on the basis that I believe that bans can be increased on the basis of previous conduct. Given how bad his has been, I don't think it would be unreasonable for it to result in a sufficient extension to at least write off the mitigation, if not extend the ban past the six weeks. FWIW, I'm not commenting on the rights and wrongs of the prescribed sanctions, just the way that they've been applied. Given that the list of sanction is available for anyone to read and we're talking about a professional player here, I have a hard time feeling any sympathy. That said, I think he was a bit unlucky given that this was the first weekend of the celebration ban. A week earlier, his energy would have gone into juggling / licking / dry routing / picking up a team mate and we wouldn't have this thread. However, you couldn't reasonably expect the judicial process to account for this. [/QUOTE]
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