Once upon a time you could work off your carry over points. If you have a game where you are not charged you lose 5 points. So if you played 10 straight games without being charged your 50 points are gone.
Thats fair. How can you be not allowed to play a game because your suspended but that game not count towards your suspension.
Will every suspended player now be able to come back a week early?
Not at all, but I count the all stars as a game he missed.
It's a fine line. Trials don't count towards suspensions. The All-Stars game is an exhibition match with cultural significance but it's still essentially a trial game too. So he's lucky to have that counted when other players can't get trial games counted towards their suspensions..
Double standards
Exactly, the NRL are farkin making it up as they go along. Rapana got suspended from an incident in the All Stars game, Fuimaono was suspended from a trial. How the fark can the NRL logically justify how a player can get suspended from an incident in a game but that game itself doesn't count against existing suspensions and you can't play in those games if you are suspended, WTF. Except if your Mitchell or course then the NRL just makes up exceptions as they go along.
Yeah Melbourne have every right to ask for the same exemption for Smith and any other/club player that was similarly affected.
I agree bro - but then he should of been allowed to play in it. It was seen as different from a trial game already by the NRL.
Yeah it makes no sense. They should have let him play in the All-Star game and keep the suspension as is. Like I said, if Latrell's suspension is reduced, then Brandon Smiths should be too..
