Quote: Errlee Berd "They could have similar debates about football (two-footed leg breaking tackles, biting etc), Union (eye-gouging, fighting), Ice Hockey, Boxing, UFC etc.'"
It's possible that they already do. Most of the things you mention there also happen in League.
Quote: Errlee Berd "Will that extra charge actually achieve anything further to whats already been done? I'm not sure it will. Flower must be in a horrible place right now and the media attention alone is enough to deter incidents from happening in the future.'"
It would be a way of showing that the game as a whole will not tolerate individuals dragging it through the mud in this way. Not a further match ban but instead some sort of 'community order' within the game where he goes around schools for 12 months explaining why it's unacceptable to behave in the way he did either on or off the field. Maybe that will help him emerge from this 'horrible place' that he's put himself in.
Quote: Errlee Berd "There could be an argument that more people will now tune into RL through curiosity than will turn away from the sport due to the attention it's had.'"
There could be. I should imagine that medium term it will have little effect either way.
