Can't believe you lot think he should have got a ban for them 'punches'. Small club mentality.

I am talking fist fights, a punch similar to Poores or Willie Mason's is sufficient to take a player out of the game or even break a jaw.
If you want consistency tell me what the penalty for each of the 'Anything else' list is? Surely every single incident must have have the same result & judgement?
McGuire no doubt knows he transgressed, I doubt he contends that. If the game ever got to the stage where that deserved more than a penalty then I would choose a new sport. It was reviewed, there was nothing in it, accept it.

The Poore and Mason incidents highlight my point exactly - one was a straight red, the other got nothing iirc, not even a penalty.

I'm discussing consistency in the ruling re fighting, so not sure why the other transgressions are relevant, unless you want to completely re-write the rulebook, but I'm fairly certain there is a consistent rule for attacks to the back of the head - a red card (and quite rightly). Probably off the ball late hits too - if they are seen.

I'm only using the McGuire incident because it is the most recent, but my point regarding that match in particular is the inconsistency. Danny wasn't even penalised, Joe gets a red and a 2 match ban. I don't see how the two incidents differ to such a degree, when both could quite easily have been dealt with by sin-binning the guilty party.

Because one was a response from a player on the floor who had been fouled, who whilst in a group had a little scuffle, the other was a player who lost his cool, whilst stood up and walking away from the play decided to only swing once, but to swing again and again and again at the head of a player who wasnt swinging back.

It really isnt difficult to appreciate that whilst both can be adequately described as 'punching' not all instances of 'punching' are the same. The same as not all high tackles are the same.

I've got a car. It's a million year old Skoda worth £5. You have a car. It's a Lamborghini worth £180,000.

But they are both "cars", aren't they, so that means they're just exactly the same thing.

Like punches.