Dude, Graham is getting suspended, Klemmer is possibly getting suspended, and Sam wont miss a game with the guilty plea. Im so over this...blokes trying to kick people, blokes throwing bottles at people. Absolute idiots with zero discipline. Not true Bulldogs.
In an odd turn of events, Sam Burgess has been charged by the match review committee, while Canterbury captain James Graham has gotten off scot-free.
After
South Sydney's win over the Bulldogs on Friday night, Graham faced a nervous wait to see if he would be charged by the match review committee (MRC) for lashing out with his boot at Burgess.
But the committee made no mention of Graham, instead charging Burgess for tripping the Bulldogs' other starting prop, Aiden Tolman.
In the 47th minute of Friday's game, Josh Reynolds reefed a bomb into the air and Tolman gave chase, coming unstuck as he passed Burgess.
The MRC on Saturday charged Burgess with a grade-one trip and a poor previous record means an early guilty plea would still result in a one-match ban.
"Any suspension is likely to be served in the end-of-season international matches being played by England, should he be selected in the England squad for the Four Nations, including a Test match against France prior to the Four Nations tournament," a Rabbitohs statement said.
Burgess' charge came after he called on the MRC not to punish fellow Englishman Graham for the attempted kick, for which he was put on report by the on-field referees.
"It didn't get me. I don't want to see him miss any games," Burgess said.
"It's a battle out there and we're both competitive blokes and it's going to boil over. There was nothing in it."
Graham will now be free to take his place in the Bulldogs' sixth-versus-seventh final against Penrith, as will David Klemmer, who was penalised on the field but not charged for a shoulder charge late in Friday's clash.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-03/sam-burgess-charged-james-graham-not/7812130
