easyWire wrote:
Oh BTW, it'll be interesting to see what sort of bans are handed out for all these offences. If we're comparing it to Vaughan pulling on a player's shirt and getting 4 games, then we should see the three players last night getting more. My guess is we won't. Pele certainly won't get a McGuire-length ban anyway.
It'll be interesting to see what they do with him. The tackle was fine, no problems there. The swinging arm on the floor is apparently a 4-6 game ban under the new guidelines. The punch to the back of the head of Lewis in the resulting handbags is 8+. I'm not sure what his record in the NRL was like, but he seems to have a reputation as a toughguy, so I can't imagine it was perfect. They could let him off by saying they both missed, it's hard to tell really on the Sky footage. But if they use it to make a statement, as they often do early in the season, he could be looking at being banned until the last week in May.