Quote: Saddened! "Rather than sucking it up and lumping it, would it not be better if we just had a system that was transparent and consistent rather than the random approach they take now? It seems incidents are referred at random by some mysterious committee and there is no attempt to be consistent and no reference to previous findings either. A classic example are the spear tackles, the derby ones both worse than Laffranchi's as his barely went past the horizontal and landed the player on his back.
When Wellens was banned last week I said that there would be at least 3 or 4 incidents per game in SL that would be worse over the Easter weekend and I was proved right. The spear tackles, the late hits on Roby and Lance's swinging arm were all more severe incidents, yet none are considered worthy of a ban.'"
The problem is the variables within every incident. One would have to see the guidelines by which the disciplinary operate off to fully understand why seemingly identical infringements go unpunished. I don't whether that information has been made public, but it would certainly go along way to appeasing the fans and making the whole system more transparent.