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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 730918" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>Yeah, a couple things come into play on the media's reaction to this one - first local media is parochial and so will always back the home side, and second, Sydney is THE Rugby League capital of the world, and the way foul play penalties are dished out in the NRL is drastically different and far less severe than it is in Rugby, so there's a lot of simple misapprehension of how Rugby is governed compared with League. In League you now really need to go and punch someone square in the face to be sent off - pretty well nothing else will see it happen. </p><p></p><p>In my view League is too lenient and union is too harsh in its penalties, but that's a debate for another day. Personally I could have seen this penalty go either way - considering both players are falling and the arm is coming from underneath in my view makes it less clear cut than you average swinging arm to the head that goes higher than most people stand. That said, I've seen plenty of harsher calls in Rugby of late, so wasn't terribly surprised all the same.</p><p></p><p>In any case, in the end it was 5 tries to 1 and we were just terribly outplayed by a much hungrier team, so there's no use getting too preoccupied with JacPot's unfortunate accident.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well to be frank, I think most of us here considered that karma for all the stuff richie has gotten away with in the past ;-) .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 730918, member: 12207"] Yeah, a couple things come into play on the media's reaction to this one - first local media is parochial and so will always back the home side, and second, Sydney is THE Rugby League capital of the world, and the way foul play penalties are dished out in the NRL is drastically different and far less severe than it is in Rugby, so there's a lot of simple misapprehension of how Rugby is governed compared with League. In League you now really need to go and punch someone square in the face to be sent off - pretty well nothing else will see it happen. In my view League is too lenient and union is too harsh in its penalties, but that's a debate for another day. Personally I could have seen this penalty go either way - considering both players are falling and the arm is coming from underneath in my view makes it less clear cut than you average swinging arm to the head that goes higher than most people stand. That said, I've seen plenty of harsher calls in Rugby of late, so wasn't terribly surprised all the same. In any case, in the end it was 5 tries to 1 and we were just terribly outplayed by a much hungrier team, so there's no use getting too preoccupied with JacPot's unfortunate accident. Well to be frank, I think most of us here considered that karma for all the stuff richie has gotten away with in the past ;-) . [/QUOTE]
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