We need to talk about the judiciary

By SuperEel22 / Roar Guru

On Wednesday night, Parramatta’s Junior Paulo was rubbed out of the game for a third of the season.

Charged with a Grade Three Dangerous Throw by the match review committee, Parramatta went to the judiciary seeking a downgrade.

The charge already carried more than 500 base points plus prior loading, seeing Paulo face seven weeks.

The Eels were hoping to have the charge downgraded to a grade two, seeing Paulo miss four weeks.

The tackle itself wasn’t that bad. The Eels forward picked up Matt Ballin and threw him into the ground.

Ballin more or less landed on his shoulder and the side of his face. Paulo didn’t drive him head first into the ground, he didn’t put his hands between Ballin’s legs.

Yet he still garnered a grade three charge.

The judiciary, for reasons unknown, decided to uphold the original charge and hand Paulo nine weeks.

A ridiculous period of suspension for any player.

To put this in perspective, Jordan McLean, the player involved in the Alex Mackinnon tackle, was handed seven weeks.

Also charged in Round 1 was Mitchell Moses for almost decapitating William Zillman and Jack Wighton for throwing punches at Sosaia Feki.

Both men escaped suspension by entering early guilty pleas.

According to the judiciary and match review committee, it is completely fine to coat hanger a player, or punch them in the head, but throw a guy onto his shoulder or face and it’s nine weeks.

In my opinion, the judiciary needs to be seriously re-evaluated with their processes looked at.

The judiciary is essentially the NRL’s “court system”, as such it should be applying appropriate precedents to their proceedings as well as providing justifications to the sanctions that they hand out.

It’s time for the judiciary to own up to why they make their decisions. There is no logical reason for them not to be able to publish reasons for the punishments that they hand out.

The judiciary currently has no consistency and no accountability.

It’s time that was changed.

The Crowd Says:

2015-03-16T08:13:49+00:00

George

Guest


For the record, at the risk of lowering myself briefly to your trivial, kindergarden level again. At least I can read dear "The Bazza" because clearly you are struggling with this simple concept, as well as the inability to spell and the inability to write a basic sentence. Here's a final example of what rubbish you wrote above. Note your last sentence, read it slower this time, it may help you understand better. The Barry said | March 13th 2015 @ 5:21pm | Report comment Emotional rant that’s short on facts. Hasson (the bloke who did the knee lift) was charged and suspended. The Paulo tackle was not simply a bear hug that slipped. What a load of rot. How did Ballin go head first into the turf if he was just in a bear hug that slipped? Paulo grabbed him and then performed a second motion that spun him around and tipped him over. It’s the second movement that Paulo was suspended for not the bear hug. What was all that nonsense about accidents and on purposes? People het ‘punished’ for accidents all the time. lol What does het mean? Abbreviation perhaps using your so called logic. So as well as being all that I mentioned above you are also a confirmed hypocrite, as well as inconsiderate to the real fans on this page. No wonder the building is cleared. At least everyone got to have a chuckle at your emotional and apparently angry rants. As for counting? I didn't bother counting Benedict Arnold as he wrote the same stuff as yourself more or less. You should've run dear The Bazz when I kindly gave the you the opportunity. But instead and as I predicted, you chose to hide behind your shiny "guru' badge which unfortunately for you, is shrinking before my eyes, continue to harass and immaturely condescend me....again! Big mistake...among the pile of mistakes you have displayed here. Glutton for punishment maybe? There are doctors for that sort of thing. Probably a weakness of your over inflated ego among the rest of your problems. In a way, I do sincerely feel sorry for you for what it's worth. At the end of the day remember that, you are very special. The good news is your shovel is working fine and you haven't run out of straws yet. The bad news is, any further emotional rantings you make here or elsewhere, may fall on deaf ears....especially mine. Goodbye my dear parrot and good luck with everything. :)

2015-03-16T05:48:54+00:00

George

Guest


Blah Blah Blah.... hello cocky.

2015-03-16T04:13:16+00:00

The Barry

Roar Guru


You haven't simplified anything. You've made everything more and more complicated as reason has left the building. You started badly, tapered away a bit in the middle and the less said about the finish the better.

2015-03-16T04:11:13+00:00

The Barry

Roar Guru


So you can't construct a sentence or count. You're killing it Georgie...

2015-03-16T03:01:28+00:00

George

Guest


Another coincedence I guess or one of your few friends...on Earth.

2015-03-16T02:54:47+00:00

George

Guest


*AFL copied the NRL

2015-03-16T02:25:39+00:00

George

Guest


Apologies to the real fans here.

2015-03-16T02:17:36+00:00

The Barry

Roar Guru


That wasn't me buddy...

2015-03-16T02:13:29+00:00

George

Guest


Also finally and I mean finally...and in consideration to the real fans here, the point which also went over your head in the accident on purposes example was to say, you can't stop accidents. Hopefully, I've simplified it enough for you "The Bozzo" to maybe understand. Next time you attempt to discredit and condescend (character assasinate) someone's points in the way you attempted with me with your lame headings because I challenged and disagreed with you, I hope you will be more considerate and get your point accross without that sort of rubbish in future. I gave you chances to be decent and then you got what you deserved.... clearly you are the crazy person in more ways than one or maybe you just have a bad memory.

2015-03-16T01:38:05+00:00

George

Guest


I only noticed everyone disagreeing with you(except 1) and not being backtracking disengenous pompous condescending arrogant little weeds like your good self if they disagree....whatever makes you feel better at the end of the day oh boring one. By the way why are you speaking to me and why do you exist?

2015-03-16T01:32:42+00:00

George

Guest


Nice try The Bazza...you really need a life to go withh your cheesy humour..

2015-03-16T00:42:42+00:00

George

Guest


Hi, I'm a different George. I only look at the Roar every couple of days, and usually make dopey, narky comments that reflect that I have a pain condition, rather than a brain. I'd just like to say that I'm a different George, not all George's are mad!

2015-03-15T20:03:49+00:00

The Barry

Roar Guru


More importantly George - did you notice the difference between Realist's logical, coherent, considered, ordered opinion and emotional rants about 'on purposes' and 'character assassination'?

2015-03-15T19:54:46+00:00

The Barry

Roar Guru


12. Souths supporter - nope. Not sure why you'd think that? 13. Storm supporter - ditto. 14. Work for the NRL - ditto. As I said - you're easily confused. It's difficult to 'debate' someone who doesn't understand even simple concepts like 'ditto'.

2015-03-15T18:11:59+00:00

George

Guest


13. Storm supporter – ditto. 14. Work for the NRL – ditto. Lmao

2015-03-15T11:00:47+00:00

George

Guest


Alright George we have heard and seen enough. Please move on...Mods

2015-03-15T10:53:35+00:00

George

Guest


Couldn't agree with you more Realist, well said. More blatant examples of the ongoing inconsistencies and double standards that have been going on around the grounds for far too long.

2015-03-15T09:04:03+00:00

Realist 1975

Guest


Geez, a fiery debate indeed. IMHO I had more issue with Hasson's knee into Watmough than the tackle on Ballin. Still believe that Moses should have been sent off for his tackle on Zillman. Likely in the minority as I would have penalised Hasson's dirty knee more than Moses and Paulo.

2015-03-15T08:51:30+00:00

The Barry

Roar Guru


Are we going to the country? "Or-da-city"

2015-03-15T08:49:03+00:00

The Barry

Roar Guru


What's the definition of "ordacity"? I heard a word once. I'm pretty sure I know what it means. I've never seen it written. I'm going to go for it. Now that's what I call "ordacity"... Hahaha

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