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Biting’s outside the NRL’s unwritten laws about acceptable ways to harm an opponent — and it means Kevin Proctor’s in trouble – ABC News
It’s usually about the impact, not the act, when a player is placed on report and appears before the NRL judiciary — but biting triggers a different response, writes Richard Hinds.
In the courts of footy justice, as in life, both punishment and perception are now all about the consequences.
When a player is placed on report, match review committees spend as much time studying the victim’s medical report as they do the video of the wallop that sent him to la-la land.
A stray elbow that leaves a player concussed might mean a two-week ban. A similar action that inflicts no trauma might attract only a fine.
The anomaly is obvious. Surely the penalty should be dependent on t…
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