[Bullseye]

Re: New Disciplinary rules : Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:57 am  

Seems that a decision has been made that offences get annulled after a year I think. But given the woeful level of reporting of this and the byzantine complexity of it all who knows?

Re: New Disciplinary rules : Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:46 am  

GeordieRhino wrote:

Can someone explain how these carry forwards have been arrived at. I get the conversion of offence severity into points that accumulate during the season. But I don’t follow the application of this to 2024 offences. If a player offended last year surely they’ll have served a ban then and those offences extinguished. Or is it that all offences last season, even though they served a ban for them, are carried forward to this year.

Last year's gradings of offence are reduced by one level so for example Lisone's Grade D becomes Grade C hence he starts on 5 points.

We can argue about the fairness of it all (double jeopardy / new NRL imports being exempt) but clearly the intent is that they want to start 2025 as if the system had always been in place. I guess the "it's the same for everyone" attitude has been applied.

As luck would have it we have done OK by having 3 new overseas players plus Holroyd and Gannon coming back from long lay offs.

Re: New Disciplinary rules : Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:50 am  

Bullseye wrote:

Seems that a decision has been made that offences get annulled after a year I think. But given the woeful level of reporting of this and the byzantine complexity of it all who knows?

That's what is being reported by journalists but I haven't found any detail about the practicalities of it. Could be key for us regarding Lisone - he got his 5 points on 22nd February 2024 and we play round 2 this year on 22nd February 2025 so I would hope they will have disappeared by then but who knows?