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<blockquote data-quote="mohamed_ali12" data-source="post: 272525"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Monkeypigeon @ Jul 21 2009, 03:48 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=405977" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>Hold on hold on, if the RFU think he didn't do it on purpose, how can he be banned for it. Surely the ban is for the malice in the act, so if there is no malice how can there be ban??</p><p></p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>for being reckless. That's what they use most of the time when it's not clear cut. 'reckless use of the boot or reckless use of the hand near the eye'</p><p>[/b][/quote]</p><p></p><p>But then surely the governing bodies would just look at a later gouging case (i.e. Quinlan) and realise that you can't ban someone whos gouge was 'reckless' for longer than someone who's gouge was obviously intentional.</p><p></p><p>I know we've pretty much agreed unanimously that the RFU are **** at their jobs, but seriously, it makes me so frigging angry.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="mohamed_ali12, post: 272525"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Monkeypigeon @ Jul 21 2009, 03:48 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=405977']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Hold on hold on, if the RFU think he didn't do it on purpose, how can he be banned for it. Surely the ban is for the malice in the act, so if there is no malice how can there be ban?? [/b][/quote] for being reckless. That's what they use most of the time when it's not clear cut. 'reckless use of the boot or reckless use of the hand near the eye' [/b][/quote] But then surely the governing bodies would just look at a later gouging case (i.e. Quinlan) and realise that you can't ban someone whos gouge was 'reckless' for longer than someone who's gouge was obviously intentional. I know we've pretty much agreed unanimously that the RFU are **** at their jobs, but seriously, it makes me so frigging angry. [/QUOTE]
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