: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:26 pm
Stand-Offish wrote:
I shall use a combination now of the RL Express for the sin-bins and sent-offs and the RFL for the on-reports.
Initial impression is that in SL they do nowt but put them on report as a first line of action.
I assume the referee puts a player on report because he is uncertain as to what exactly happened at the incident,what I don't understand is if the referee is uncertain as to what happened how does he arrive at the decision to award a penalty to the none offending team .
Imagine the scenario of the home team leading the game by one point with 15 minutes of the game left to play & there is an incident in the home teams 25 and the referee decides to put a home team player on report and he awards the visiting team a penalty which they choose to take a kick at goal which is successfully converted, the visitors now are one point in front & hang on to there slender lead to win the game, the following week the player who was put on report appears before RL disciplinary meeting who findings are that the player as no case to answer.