Lee Grant
John Eales (66)
Below is the link which mentions the appeal:
http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3821_6278985,00.html
I missed the bit when Quade should have said, "I was a careless dickhead and deserved to get suspended."
As for the lack of uniformity in periods of suspension at different levels of rugby: you could see a case where, say, for an offending South African player by way of example:
1. A number of games is sanctioned not a number of weeks.
2. A player suspended for actions in a test match should be suspended for a number of test matches but be allowed to play in the Currie Cup or club games.
3. A test player suspended for actions in the Currie Cup should be suspended from Currie Cup matches and test matches but be allowed to play club rugby. [That is: you may play down but not up.]
4. All bets are off for prescribed egregious incidents, such as eye gouging, where multi month suspension from all forms of rugby should be imposed.
I can see the holes in some of these things but something like this is needed to deal with the supposed inequity that Cooper misses two tests and Fourie one.
Until those or any other procedural matters are established, the Cooper suspension should stay as is. Otherwise some in the SAffer setup, already on the point of paranoia, will be carrying on like some cricket officials from a certain continent - and it ain't an island.
PS - I am all for hasher penalties for repeat offenders but otherwise SANZAR has to get out of the judiciary Stone Age and implement some of the technological initiatives that many of us have mentioned in the last few years.
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http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3821_6278985,00.html
I missed the bit when Quade should have said, "I was a careless dickhead and deserved to get suspended."
As for the lack of uniformity in periods of suspension at different levels of rugby: you could see a case where, say, for an offending South African player by way of example:
1. A number of games is sanctioned not a number of weeks.
2. A player suspended for actions in a test match should be suspended for a number of test matches but be allowed to play in the Currie Cup or club games.
3. A test player suspended for actions in the Currie Cup should be suspended from Currie Cup matches and test matches but be allowed to play club rugby. [That is: you may play down but not up.]
4. All bets are off for prescribed egregious incidents, such as eye gouging, where multi month suspension from all forms of rugby should be imposed.
I can see the holes in some of these things but something like this is needed to deal with the supposed inequity that Cooper misses two tests and Fourie one.
Until those or any other procedural matters are established, the Cooper suspension should stay as is. Otherwise some in the SAffer setup, already on the point of paranoia, will be carrying on like some cricket officials from a certain continent - and it ain't an island.
PS - I am all for hasher penalties for repeat offenders but otherwise SANZAR has to get out of the judiciary Stone Age and implement some of the technological initiatives that many of us have mentioned in the last few years.
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