After last week, Bibby and Isa should be nowhere near!!

Quote ="NickyKiss"They need to stop being so precious the officials. As if there will be zero accidental contact when you’re playing a contact sport, at that pace and incidents like O’Neill’s or Martin’s look accidental to me. I’ve never seen the Foster incident and it sounds like a ban was warranted in that case but it was described as an assault. Now that’s a pretty serious term to throw about, that could live with the lad for the rest of his life. It didn’t sound like an assault from what I read but if a future employer, partner or whoever Googles his name, it will show up that he once assaulted a referee.'" https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/watch-th ... 56334/amp/

Quote ="NickyKiss"They need to stop being so precious the officials. As if there will be zero accidental contact when you’re playing a contact sport, at that pace and incidents like O’Neill’s or Martin’s look accidental to me. I’ve never seen the Foster incident and it sounds like a ban was warranted in that case but it was described as an assault. Now that’s a pretty serious term to throw about, that could live with the lad for the rest of his life. It didn’t sound like an assault from what I read but if a future employer, partner or whoever Googles his name, it will show up that he once assaulted a referee.'" https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/watch-th ... 56334/amp/

That's an absolute joke.

Is it any wonder why people like myself have no respect for refs? How can the above gets classed as assault? Another case of them protecting their own and milking anything they can.

Wow!

It’s a ban, he shouldn’t have done it but assault? Absolutely disgraceful wording and 8 games is farcical as well.

Stupid of him, but 8 games is a joke.

Definately a card and a few matches, but that being labelled as physical assault is insane!

Not to mention the ref came and stood directly infront of the player blocking his running line in the defensive setup, he walked straight past a gap between players to plant himself in the way! If the ref had be 1m or 2 to the right this would have not happened, you still can't go around pushing official's like that but there is a fair argument for the ref's poor positioning being the instigator.