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Lee Byrne suspended for 2 weeks.
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<blockquote data-quote="elgringoborracho" data-source="post: 301016"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (dullonien @ Jan 31 2010, 09:47 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=434578" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>What now? </p><p></p><p>2 weeks = 70 weeks? :blink: </p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p>Well, I obviously wasn't talking about Attoub! Burger was handed out a 2 week ban for gouging.</p><p></p><p>I know some people have critisized Byrne for pleading guilty, but imo that's rediculous. At the end of the day, he was on the field. If he pleaded innocent, he would have basically been saying that he wasn't.</p><p></p><p>This ban should be dropped or reduced on appeal. I take it that the panel hearing the appeal is different from that of the original hearing? Hopefully they will have some kind of common sense and conclude that the ban handed out to the Ospreys (which was also quite hefty compared to the £10,000 fine handed out to England, even though the 4th official was ignored in that case) was sufficient punishment.</p><p></p><p>All we are asking for is common sense, and again some consistency in the punishments handed out!</p><p>[/b][/quote]</p><p></p><p>I think Burger got 8 weeks but I still agree with you. There was not much he could do once his coach had told him to enter the field and had he said no he would have had problems with his own team.</p><p>The ERC has become very consistent in making f***tard decisions.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="elgringoborracho, post: 301016"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (dullonien @ Jan 31 2010, 09:47 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=434578']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> What now? 2 weeks = 70 weeks? :blink: [/b][/quote] Well, I obviously wasn't talking about Attoub! Burger was handed out a 2 week ban for gouging. I know some people have critisized Byrne for pleading guilty, but imo that's rediculous. At the end of the day, he was on the field. If he pleaded innocent, he would have basically been saying that he wasn't. This ban should be dropped or reduced on appeal. I take it that the panel hearing the appeal is different from that of the original hearing? Hopefully they will have some kind of common sense and conclude that the ban handed out to the Ospreys (which was also quite hefty compared to the £10,000 fine handed out to England, even though the 4th official was ignored in that case) was sufficient punishment. All we are asking for is common sense, and again some consistency in the punishments handed out! [/b][/quote] I think Burger got 8 weeks but I still agree with you. There was not much he could do once his coach had told him to enter the field and had he said no he would have had problems with his own team. The ERC has become very consistent in making f***tard decisions. [/QUOTE]
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