Thurston could miss Origin 3 decider

You cant charge him for that when earlier in the season Todd Carney did basically the samething. The ref ran in Thurston's way and there was nothing he could do to stop himself

So what if you live in Syd and was bred in Wollongong Scotty old boy, that doesn't make you any less of a Qld supporter. If that was the criteria for being a New South Welshman then Sam Thaiday (amongst others) wouldn't be playing for Qld. I would have say your the worst kind of closet supporter, the kind that denies he has an agenda (me thinks he doest protest too much!). Anyone who has watched the game for any length of time will tell you that Thurston is a grub towards referees. He NEVER accepts their decisions, he's always back-chatting and abusing the refs and this incident was just another way of him just trying to get away with murder (metaphorically speaking) Forget all about this talk from the experts about how he didn't raise his hands and he was watching the ball etc. I'll bet you London to a brick I can mow you down from behind while looking to the side and with not having to put my hands out in front of me. In fact, by not raising my hands and just using my chest and shoulder it would probably hurt a lot more as well! He did it on purpose and know he's sh*tting like a Great Dane cause he got caught. Ask any police profiler about that television interview where he's pleading his case of accidental, he looked like my 7 yo son trying to tell me he didn't eat the last Tim Tam.

Hoy, This is exactly a gee up! This is once again a pathetic attempt by the people who run the game to ensure that QLD'ers understand just whom runs the game. The list of absolute rubbish reasons to remove QLD's best players for what ever reason they can since the first time we bashed them in State of Origin 1 is simply pathetic! The NSW Old Boys network inside the controlling body of the NRL is alive and well. They have struggled to come to grips with the fact that they can no longer use our players to bash us since the inception of State of Origin. The fact that we now regularly prove that QLD is the most dominant Rugby League breeding ground of any place on earth really drives them to distraction. In fact it forces them to go to ridiculous lengths to level the playing field by trying to disrupt the QLD Team. I hope they do suspend JT just to prove my above mentioned comments correct. They should also let Ricky Stuart wrap his players up in cotton wool, they should let him have his bus trip, they should even let him Ref the game if he wants! As a QLD fan I will enjoy nothing more than to watch the QLD squad demolish NSW regardless of what ever rubbish is thrown at them by the NSW controlled NRL.

Then give him life. I saw it happen at the time. I was watching it with mates and I said to them "did you see that? Thurston just pushed the ref in the back and sent him arse-up". We watched the replay and they agreed with me, we all thought he did it on purpose. In fact I was amazed it wasn't brought up on the sports programmes the next morning. This bloke is a long-time dissenter of authority. I have never seen a player get away with what he does when it comes to referees. Steve Roach once received 4 weeks for a light-hearted pat of Eddie Wards head yet this goose continues to referees a gob-full every week. He's a blight on the game and a very poor example to young kids. I must say though, as much as I wouldn't have any remorse for this Bozo if he did get life I would still prefer he play SOO 3, because as Dean from Surry Hills said, Qld would be a much better team with Cronk or Cherry-Evans in there in his place.

Ken, refer my storylate last week: http://www.theroar.com.au/2011/06/18/whats-going-to-queensland-excuse-this-time/

Gazza I agree with you that we would like like Thurston to date our sister but lets not knock his ability to play the game. He is a treat to watch and the best I have seen since Joey. I think it is a disgrace that he has to fly down here to defend himself on a trumped up charge that Blind Freddy can see was an accident. NSW had a guy 2 weeks ago who almost put another player in a wheelchair and he got off.

Davo I live in Sydney and bred in Wollongong and I am embarassed about this charge. Anyone that would think any player would purposely charge into the back of a ref is on another planet. It was 100% an accident. Full stop. But here is the ting. If it was ON PURPOSE then the player should be rubbed out for life. He must play.

This is a gee up surely. Fox Sports had it out last night and were correct. There is no consistency. I can't see how they could charge Thurston with a grade 2, (or any grade for that matter) and some others who have done the same thing get nothing, and some others get a grade 1. How do they differentiate? If Thurston gets two matches, that will do me. You will never cease the conspiracy theories from North of the border, and rightly so. Call me what you want, but that is a wank.

Just a point of reference, Todd Carney with the ball ran straight into Tony Archer put him on his back earlier in the year... 0 weeks. That Canberra player Mccrone, ran into the back of (no idea who the ref was) was forced to plead guilty by the Raiders and recieved... 0 weeks. Sam Thaiday bulldozed i beleive Checcin, recieved.... 0 weeks. If this system has any credibility this charge will be dropped, and football as a whole can benefit by not being brought down by this garbage and the focus can return to the best players playing the biggest game of the last 5-10 years. Common sense, fingers crossed shall prevail here, however... we are dealing with the NRL, nuff said

couldn't agree more. as i said if it was his own player he would have run around him. but he ran into the ref to see if he could milk something out of it

Told ya Thursty was a muppett. Milks penalties whenever he can and loves stripping a ball when the ref aint looking. He loves nothing more than bending the rules and then having a moan when he gets pinged in an attempt to justify his wrongs. Maybe he was hoping that the video ref would disallow this try on an obstruction ruling

i wonder if Mal is going to urge the judiciary to suspend JT, or if he gets off i wonder if he will say it is a disgrace. I have a hunch Mal will be very discrete.

that was actually a accident, this isn't.

It looks more on purpose than accidental to me. Thurston is 6m behind with the opposing player 10m from the tryline, there is no way he is going to be caught. It's not like the referee blind-sided Thurston at all, he was in Thurston's line of shigt for the whole time. I can gurantee if it was of his own players he wouldn't have knocked him over, he would have tried to run around him. However, knocking over the referee makes it look like it was the refs fault. Thurston might have got away with it if he didn't have a lenghty history of blowing up at referees. He deserves a suspension. However, i want him to play origin 3 or else QLD will go about conspiracies and how the Match Review Panel are against them, claim they are NSW fans etc. claim that NSW can't beat QLD with Thurston etc. Sorry QLD fans but the NRL was founded in NSW hence the headquarters are there. That doesn't mean that they support NSW. What are supposed to do, have the headquarters directly in the state boundary, or move them to Canberra where there is hardly any Rugby League? QLD fans are often a joke. Get over yourselves and stop moaning

Is this a quiet news week or something? Uate spear tackle, nothing. Gallen late, high swinging arm on Inglis, nothing. A ref runs in front of JT and JT gets two weeks. Seriously, if this is upheld the NSW exec and admin will need riot police if the come to the game. Better yet, let's allow Ricky his wish and take the bus down Caxton St. -- Comment left via The Roar's iPhone app. Download The Roar's iPhone App in the App Store here.

Jordo Its black and white. He either gets off 100% or he get the electric chair. There can be no grey area and half hearted sentence for collliding into a ref. If he did it on purpose then he is gone forever, if it was accidental and the audio will prove that, then he should get off 100%. How can they have 2 weeks for colliding with a ref? Shows u the mentality of the guys making decisions.

I'm thus assuming Tonie Carroll didn't retire but is in fact serving a 10 year sentence for decapitating tony De Le Heras?

It a bloody shame for the game that he cant play/ Its a bigger bloddy shame for Qld. Kinda stupid as if the NRL want the game to expand what better way than having the best players on the park for a rep game. This could be a case of league continues to grow despite its self. I am amazed how well it does.

I dont know anyone that saw this happen. OK say he did collide with the ref. If he did it on purpose then he should get life from the game, but if it was an accident he should be reprimanded or at worst a fine. For any player to miss playing in a Origin decider for an accident is ludicrous and any body or any organisation that would entertain that thought should be stood down for incompetence and I am a NSW guy. There can be only 2 calls here: 1. Give him life 2. Nothing and able to play.

As a Blues fan I think it would be a shame for him to miss Origin based on that - although it would almost be worth it to watch the Mal and the QLDers work themselves into a frenzy about conspiracies and the like...