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Repeating it over and over again won't make it true.Putting aside the comedy distractions like the Bushranger and Underarm- it's taken two pages for the discussion to arrive back at my point, posted 2 pages back.
It’s all in the wording of the directive - it says something like - ‘will USUALLY result in a grading of intentional’
I would argue this is not ‘usual’
- The tackling player CONTRIBUTED by slipping and this brought his head down to waist height
- the tackling player was actually ‘hanging on’ and Heeney’s clear intent was to clear the tackle, not strike the player
-Heeney was not watching the tackling player at poc.
- Contact was with the back of the hand and his nose was NOT the 1st POC.
There is simply no way the mechanics of this accident fall into the USUAL actions this rule was drawn up to prevent.
He’ll get off and we can all enjoy watching these poisonous bomber flogs calling for a lynching , burn up in the flames of their own straw arguments.