[quote="ninearches":1xvxa1p2]We only have to look at the fiasco last year when the Hull player was sent off for catching Ben Currie on the chops .Even Ben couldn't believe it. What with changes to disciplinary matters & rule changes in the game Rugby League is evolving away from the spectator & becoming increasingly hard to follow.[/quote:1xvxa1p2] Agreed - and it's all so easily avoidable, that's the thing. All it needed is for someone to have had the common sense to say "no, we can't give players disciplinary points based on last season, that's ludicrous, let's just start 2025 with a clean slate". Players who fell foul of the disciplinary in 2024 have already had their cases dealt with and have served their punishment, so by now including points based on those cases, you are effectively going to be punishing a player twice for the same incident. I'm not even sure that would stand up to a legal challenge, if anyone's got the guts to do it.

Look at the Vaughan sending off against Leigh for which he got a 4 match ban from a disciplinary panel that said he was guilty when half the viewing public thought there was no foul committed. Look how many times different players get different sanctions ,if any at all, for the same offence. Unless we get a disciplinary panel that can hand out punishments fairly & evenly how can we have any faith in this new system.

I know it's not the done thing to defend the RFL (I'm the sort of person who stands up for local councils on Facebook pages) but I think the intention here is the correct one. The new system is intended to (1) take players' previous dodgy record into account in a more consistent way and (2) reduce frivolous appeals. I support both of those objectives. I still think some of the rulings from the disciplinary panel (Vaughan x2) are complete nonsense and, on balance, I agree it will be better to start everyone off from a clean slate - as I suspect will happen now.

[quote="just_browny":2s2ho1yr]I know it's not the done thing to defend the RFL (I'm the sort of person who stands up for local councils on Facebook pages) but I think the intention here is the correct one. The new system is intended to (1) take players' previous dodgy record into account in a more consistent way and (2) reduce frivolous appeals. I support both of those objectives. I still think some of the rulings from the disciplinary panel (Vaughan x2) are complete nonsense and, on balance, I agree it will be better to start everyone off from a clean slate - as I suspect will happen now.[/quote:2s2ho1yr] I concur. Carrying naughtiness over from last season could have been the best thing for Vaughan’s discipline lapses.

Jordy got sent off in the Catalans game for an alleged infringement that my 9 year old grandson would have stood up to, it was pathetic, but never been carded since playing from 6 years old ended up with 3 points carried over to this season, that’s the gripe I have with it.