robjoenz posted:
Watching it again I'm not so sure about that incident itself. It was a loose arm rather than a forceful smack round the head, probably was careless. Maybe it was right to let him off for that particular incident. However, if you consider the whole game (which I know was not the committees purpose) then you'd probably ban him. There was another incident, off the ball I think, that did deserve a ban. I think we're lucky really.
That is my point exactly, going off the incindent he was reported for, he thought the guy was getting the ball and only half pulled out, it wasnt a swinging stiff arm which would have leveled him, it was just lazy and stupid, no harm was done, and it was alot worse than it looked.