Jack Wighton
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Have to agree I think The Sharks are the glory, glory team this year.
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Going by those three key points... How did Evans get away with his shoulder charge on Kasiano without even getting penalized?
Every week they prove more and more that they have no fucking clue what they're doing.
Players should just be given one of those boards where they spin an arrow and it either lands on "your good to go" or "your fucked" because that's basically all the NRL do.
Every week they prove more and more that they have no fucking clue what they're doing.
Players should just be given one of those boards where they spin an arrow and it either lands on "your good to go" or "your fucked" because that's basically all the NRL do.
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How the fk did he get off? When the parra players looks to offload. Wighton clearly accelerates to Hit the parra player with his shoulder.
It really feels like Wighton got public support and media support because Canberra are golden child's and every fans second favourite team.
It really feels like Wighton got public support and media support because Canberra are golden child's and every fans second favourite team.
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i believe it's because of the NRL's stupid interpretation of what a shoulder charge is
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The shoulder charge was one of the best things in the NRL. The game keeps getting more boring as each new year a new rule comes in.
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The MRC has once again proved its ineptness. If they are going to say that a+ b +c are the pointers towards a certain charge being legitimately made, they need to make sure that whatever they have said cannot possibly be disputed in any way. The way in which they lay charges and their grading etc. are seriously flawed. I don't know how many times a player has been charged for an offence that has been incorrectly phrased leading to them escaping punishment.
MRC and judiciary are supposed to work in unison to make sure that players are punished in a fair and proper manner, obviously neither understands each others function.
MRC and judiciary are supposed to work in unison to make sure that players are punished in a fair and proper manner, obviously neither understands each others function.
And that is the point. Ennis should have been charged then we would not be having this discussion; Wighton would be serving a suspension of some kind, but instead we see both players running around this weekend when in the past others have been found guilty for very similar offences.
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I can't stand the raiders if for nothing else then the fact that I hate Ricky Stuart with a passion. The fact that he was part of our proud club just pisses me off Honestly can't stand the bloke & don't want the raiders to win purely for that fact
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Fuck who cares , game is soft and a player shouldn't get wiped out of the finals for that, we want to see the strongest teams playing
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Great news ... you can elbow a guy in the head at force, and as long as MRC fuck up and charge you with the wrong charge, you get off scott free!
I wonder how much that decision cost the Raiders in brown paper bags.
I wonder how much that decision cost the Raiders in brown paper bags.
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I agree the shoulder charge rule is a joke. The only rule should be that if you hit a bloke high, then you'll get minimum a penalty and if the circumstances warrant it, a suspension.
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Imagine if Kasiano had produced this sort of hit. He would have been given 4 weeks minimum.
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Or even your ranga twin Napa...
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This article says it all and reinforces my opinion that the wrong charge was levelled at Wighton and that if they had got it right we would have seen him sitting out a few weeks. He committed a chargeable offence by creating dangerous contact with the head of an opponent. Once the MRC decided to big note itself by demonstrating the three parts that denote a shoulder charge they were on a hiding to nothing and their case fell apart. ( See my post from Tuesday 9.05pm)
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...-wighton-former-mrc-boss-20160907-graypx.html.
Former match review committee chairman Greg McCallum believes the NRL laid the wrong charge against Jack Wighton and prejudiced its own case against the Canberra fullback by breaking protocol and attempting to justify its decision.
Penrith's general manager of football, Phil Gould, described the process as "embarrassing" in a scathing attack on the decision makers involved. The controversy is one of many embroiling the MRC following a series of questionable charges, most notably for apparent inconsistencies in dealing with players who have made contact with referees.
McCallum backed the governing body's decision to outlaw shoulder charges but believed neither Wighton nor Cronulla's Michael Ennis had committed the offence in the final round of the regular season.
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"I wouldn't have charged him with a shoulder charge, I would have charged him with dangerous contact or contact with the head. Once they determined it was a shoulder charge, they had all sorts of problems trying to convince people it was. That came to a head [at the judiciary]."
The MRC is under fire after Wighton was found not guilty of a grade-two shoulder charge on Wests Tigers forward Joel Edwards. Wighton was facing the prospect of being sidelined for a month but is now free to line up against Cronulla on Saturday night after being cleared at the judiciary.
The NRL took the unprecedented step of comparing Wighton's supposed shoulder charge to a similar incident involving Ennis. Ennis didn't attract a charge, with the NRL providing stills of the incident and stating: "It's very clear that the left arm of Ennis is away from his body and not tucked into his side."
McCallum, also a former first-grade referee, said he had never commented on such matters during his decade at the MRC.
"That was highly unusual, we've never done that in the time I was there," he said.
"To me, they broke their own rule in doing it. You've got a position where, once a charge has been laid, it was always imposed on me in the 10 years I was there not to make public comment about it because it would prejudice the case.
"To me, they broke their own rule in doing it. You've got a position where, once a charge has been laid, it was always imposed on me in the 10 years I was there not to make public comment about it because it would prejudice the case.
"It's put a lot of doubt in people's minds in what constitutes misconduct as far as the shoulder charge goes."
The NRL said the case highlighted the benefits of having an independent match review committee and judiciary.
Close contact: Jack Wighton goes in hard. Photo: Supplied
"It ensures that if a player believes he should not have been charged or seeks a downgrade he can take the matter to the judiciary and have the case heard in full by a second independent authority," an NRL spokesperson said.
McCallum believed the MRC was top-heavy with former footballers and could benefit by having a range of stakeholders on the committee.
"My personal observation is you need to look at the structure of the committee," he said.
"When I was on the committee I came from a refereeing and administration background, Peter Louis came from a coaching background, Mark O'Neil and Bradley Clyde came from playing backgrounds.
"There was a good balance. My feeling is the committee is overloaded with players and not enough with people from other aspects of the game who see things differently.
"It makes it difficult for the club supporter to understand the differences between the charges."
Gould, speaking on Sky Sports Radio's Big Sports Breakfast, didn't hold back in his criticism of the NRL.
"The people that are doing this have absolutely no idea what they're doing," Gould said.
"I fear for the future of the game with the people that we have in charge at the moment. Honestly …
"To go through the embarrassment of, at the time, charging Wighton [and releasing] a detailed description of why he was guilty and why Ennis wasn't; to then have it turned over by their own judiciary, it embarrasses the code. Someone needs to be held accountable for that."
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...-wighton-former-mrc-boss-20160907-graypx.html.
Former match review committee chairman Greg McCallum believes the NRL laid the wrong charge against Jack Wighton and prejudiced its own case against the Canberra fullback by breaking protocol and attempting to justify its decision.
Penrith's general manager of football, Phil Gould, described the process as "embarrassing" in a scathing attack on the decision makers involved. The controversy is one of many embroiling the MRC following a series of questionable charges, most notably for apparent inconsistencies in dealing with players who have made contact with referees.
McCallum backed the governing body's decision to outlaw shoulder charges but believed neither Wighton nor Cronulla's Michael Ennis had committed the offence in the final round of the regular season.
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"I wouldn't have charged him with a shoulder charge, I would have charged him with dangerous contact or contact with the head. Once they determined it was a shoulder charge, they had all sorts of problems trying to convince people it was. That came to a head [at the judiciary]."
The MRC is under fire after Wighton was found not guilty of a grade-two shoulder charge on Wests Tigers forward Joel Edwards. Wighton was facing the prospect of being sidelined for a month but is now free to line up against Cronulla on Saturday night after being cleared at the judiciary.
The NRL took the unprecedented step of comparing Wighton's supposed shoulder charge to a similar incident involving Ennis. Ennis didn't attract a charge, with the NRL providing stills of the incident and stating: "It's very clear that the left arm of Ennis is away from his body and not tucked into his side."
McCallum, also a former first-grade referee, said he had never commented on such matters during his decade at the MRC.
"That was highly unusual, we've never done that in the time I was there," he said.
"To me, they broke their own rule in doing it. You've got a position where, once a charge has been laid, it was always imposed on me in the 10 years I was there not to make public comment about it because it would prejudice the case.
"To me, they broke their own rule in doing it. You've got a position where, once a charge has been laid, it was always imposed on me in the 10 years I was there not to make public comment about it because it would prejudice the case.
"It's put a lot of doubt in people's minds in what constitutes misconduct as far as the shoulder charge goes."
The NRL said the case highlighted the benefits of having an independent match review committee and judiciary.
Close contact: Jack Wighton goes in hard. Photo: Supplied
"It ensures that if a player believes he should not have been charged or seeks a downgrade he can take the matter to the judiciary and have the case heard in full by a second independent authority," an NRL spokesperson said.
McCallum believed the MRC was top-heavy with former footballers and could benefit by having a range of stakeholders on the committee.
"My personal observation is you need to look at the structure of the committee," he said.
"When I was on the committee I came from a refereeing and administration background, Peter Louis came from a coaching background, Mark O'Neil and Bradley Clyde came from playing backgrounds.
"There was a good balance. My feeling is the committee is overloaded with players and not enough with people from other aspects of the game who see things differently.
"It makes it difficult for the club supporter to understand the differences between the charges."
Gould, speaking on Sky Sports Radio's Big Sports Breakfast, didn't hold back in his criticism of the NRL.
"The people that are doing this have absolutely no idea what they're doing," Gould said.
"I fear for the future of the game with the people that we have in charge at the moment. Honestly …
"To go through the embarrassment of, at the time, charging Wighton [and releasing] a detailed description of why he was guilty and why Ennis wasn't; to then have it turned over by their own judiciary, it embarrasses the code. Someone needs to be held accountable for that."
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