He could not have got more as that was the maximum penalty for the offence he was charged with.medlocke wrote:not surprised,the fact is he did wrong, whether he was goaded into it is irrelivent, he shouldn't be so stupid to be drawn into it, i mean it's not rocket science, he's numb, he has a short fuse, he should know by now that others will take the piss trying for the penalty, he should be happy ith what he got as he could have got more
They could not have charged him with a different offence either because he did what he did not something else if you see what I mean.
I agree he is being targeted and that he reacts but that doesn't mean the club wasn't right to appeal the ban given he was sent off in the game and based on how other players who have done as he did have been punished.
There is a glaring inconstancy here and the RFL would be far better adopting fixed penalties for offences and none of this taking good or bad records into account.
If you lamp someone you get a ban of X matches and so on. Get three such bans in a season then you cop five matches or something like that to punish persistent offenders.
Would Hock be such a persistent offender and cop a longer ban under rules like that? Maybe but at least the system would be transparent and fair and at the moment it looks anything but.
