Quote ="Saddened!"You can't ban someone for a slow play the ball in the 79th minute of a professional RL game
He'd run 162 metres with the ball by that point and done 20 tackles. He played it like Konrad Hurrell does in the 4th minute after his first run. The refs could just deal with it by stopping the clock if they think it's being overly slow and if there is a 'fake' injury and they stay down, use the green card. That's what it's for.
As daft as this all seems, the solution to it is players not touching the ball carrier. The bans have to stay until players understand that. What they can't do is let Vaughan off (Because he was time wasting) then ban the next fool who does it when the player turns out to have had a serious injury.'"
The thing is Matautia never looked injured and everyone including the officials just saw that tired looking slow play the ball. However the Disciplinary just see things completely differently.
We had 2 season ending injuries by cannon ball looking reckless tackles on Walmsley and Passi by Asiati and the disciplinary see nothing and no charge zero bans
We have Vaughan with a slight pull on Matautis shirt who at that point was getting on his feet in a tired manner, disciplinary see different and a 4-6 match ban.
Crazzzzzzzzzzzzyyyyyyy
He'd run 162 metres with the ball by that point and done 20 tackles. He played it like Konrad Hurrell does in the 4th minute after his first run. The refs could just deal with it by stopping the clock if they think it's being overly slow and if there is a 'fake' injury and they stay down, use the green card. That's what it's for.
