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I’m not saying it’s fine because it’s a hard sport I’m saying it happens in the heat of the moment, nasty things are said that the person saying them won’t really mean. If someone called it me on a rugby pitch it would just mean I’d try to tackle them harder, I wouldn’t want them banned. However if it was used towards a PDRL player by an able bodied player then a whopping great big ban would be suffice.
Nobody is perfect and mistakes are made, certainly in the heat of battle but there still has to be consequences and he’ll get a ban that is IMO warranted if he’s found guilty. It’s just a moronic thing to say, a bit childish and while it probably didn’t make the Leigh player (or whoever he aimed it at) bat an eyelid, it paints him and the game in a bad light.
I can’t get my head around him doing it when clubs know how how easy it is to pick up bans. I’d have him in the firing line if I were Powell or a Wire fan and not the disciplinary. Lads were handed bans for next to nothing last year, with all manner of accidental incidents being punished and it was a joke. This isn’t that, it’s a player being a fool and is so easily avoided. There are dozens of words he can use when getting in to verbals with the opposition. He’ll probably have a few weeks to practice them now.