Jimmy

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Cameron, re the Franklin incident, the MRP may or may not have handed down the right penalty, but it seems that we are at least in agreement that the MRP got it wrong in grading Franklin’s conduct as being merely ‘careless’. Some might think that this is splitting hairs on my part i.e. who cares so long as the same outcome is reached (although reaching the same outcome in this case would have depended on the MRP grading the impact as ‘low’ cf ‘medium’). Nevertheless,I think that it goes without saying that it’s important that the MRP grades conduct (i.e. ‘careless’ vs ‘intentional’) correctly in situations as uncontentious as this one. Intentional conduct of medium impact with head high contact would have resulted in 2 weeks with an early guilty plea (correct for mine). And, more importantly, it will be interesting to say the least to see how the MRP strives for some consistency in grading conduct in future in light of this decision.

Match Review Panel correct with Franklin and Tippett

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