The trouble with that line of argument is that the culprit would also rather coach your kid to play RL than scrub walls. There has to be some punitive element to the punishment surely?

I would suggest that "Community Service" should force people to do work that best serves the community in question.

Not sure having Pryce scrubbing walls is particularly valuable for the community. Getting him involved with awareness/coaching schemes with kids who look up to him is likely to have far more impact than a cleaner wall somewhere.

If the Judge wanted a stronger punishment than unpaid work serving the community, he wouldn't have given him community service.

All IMO of course.

Salary caps and overseas quotas?

The Solicitors Regulation Authority can ban anyone working in a solicitors firm based upon criminal activities.

Governing bodies in all professions and careers can and do exactly that.

Don't dictate whether any particular individual can be employed, just restrict the amount their employer is allowed to spend and who they can spend it on.

Point taken about the SRA, I had forgotten they can do exactly that. Is "character" as important in a rugby player as it is in a solicitor or doctor however?

No, but then there's the public eye and "role models"element I guess.

Why, he's an idiot.

as are you

I'll wager 1 thing, i bet the next super league players who commit an offence anything like that of Reardon & Pryce's (especially Pryce!), I bet they get a longer than expected jail sentence to make up for the total farcical decision by this Bradford judge.

An assault is an assault whether Mr. Nobody or Mr. Somebody in my opinion

Do you like to like to loose money?

Congratulations - you win the newly created "Most Retarded Post of the Year" award.

What sport someone plays and at what level plays a massive part in the sentencing guidelines used by judges, oh yes.

That's the kind of money my wife spends. Well she spends loosely anyway.

Glad you made some sense out of what I typed there, I was struggling.

Having been a member of these forums for longer than I really ought to have understanding gibberish has become second nature.

Peter Smith should concentrate on being what he is a very poor journalist instead of being the Rhinos poodle.His total bias makes anything he writes not worth reading,unless of course you are reading with blinkers on.