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We cannot wait for the Independent Commission. The NRL match review committee chairman Greg McCallum and all of his members must go.
I am charging them with a Grade 5 Contrary Conduct, Obstructing (Origin III), Detrimental Conduct and Dangerous Conduct. Their sentence is life and never to work anywhere near rugby league ever again.
The sporting fraternity on both sides of the Tweed are amazed at how McCallum and his merry men could arrive at a decision to ban the world’s best player from the most anticipated game in years for what appeared to every man and his dog to be an accident.
Jonathan Thurston must make a three hour flight from North Queensland to fight the grade-two contrary-conduct charge in a desperate bid to beat the two-match ban and play in the Origin series decider.
I have spoken to many learned industry members ranging from current players, ex-players, commentators, league members and many sports-loving mates who are as one mimicking John McEnroe: “They cannot be serious?”
Talkback radio programs were also unanimous that this debacle is scandalous.
I am not here to defend Thurston, as I am sure sanity will prevail and footy fans will see justice, but how can this happen?
How can one single person supported by a group of ‘experts’ look at the video more than once and then have the temerity to hand out a serious charge?
Is everyone in the sporting world wrong and Greg McCallum and his committee correct?
The NRL is a multi-billion dollar business and it demands better.
It cannot move forward and have people in powerful positions like the Match Review Committee making two-bob decisions.
My AFL mates in Melbourne are laughing that Origin III could lose its best player because of an accident. I felt embarrassed for the game.
The NRL Match Review Committee looks at incidents in every game each week. The Committee includes a former referee, former coach and former player and they make their decisions independently of the NRL administration.
Sounds good in theory but somehow these guys have made a monumental stuff-up that could start a civil war.
Maybe the IC can add to the ref, the coach and the player someone with some common sense.
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