NRL Round 18 Judiciary Update: JWH Decision Made

[Archelon]

Tend to agree that JWH could be a liability at times. I feel somewhat more at ease when he’s not playing because he also gives away too many penalties.

like everything, there’s always pros and cons. JWH is great in his own rights, but he’s not immune to criticism.

[MKCS]

Corey Horse brah got 3 weeks for punching and headbutting an opponent

The punishments rarely make sense. Latrell Mitchell dog shotting Joseph Manu and caving his face in got 6 weeks but Spencer Leniu uses hateful language in a game and gets 8 weeks. I'm not in favour of what Leniu said at all but surely dog shotting an opposition player and causing a relatively serious injury is worth more than Leniu saying something grubby.

[SupermanSupportsEasts4Eva]

This decision is further proof that there is absolutely no consistency from on field rulings to the MRC to the Judiciary. They claim its black and white, but in practice every decision made is a lottery.
JWH's "careless" high tackle barely warranted a penalty let alone a 4 match suspension. The player was officated, not the rule.

[Carlos Parra]

Corrupt bastards.

[Waylander]

This decision is further proof that there is absolutely no consistency from on field rulings to the MRC to the Judiciary. They claim its black and white, but in practice every decision made is a lottery.
JWH's "careless" high tackle barely warranted a penalty let alone a 4 match suspension. The player was officated, not the rule.

To be fair, the length of this suspension is partly due to it being his 3rd similar offense this season, not just the over-grading.

[gragra]

They aren't taking all big hits out of the game or are they? After every kick off after a try a forward runs full steam into opposing forwards....and no penalties...and the crowd love that about the nrl...take the big hits out and the game loses something significant of the theatre. Targeting jwh for a penalty here was just plain wrong...

[milanja]

Give me other legends like Cordner, Friend Aubo, Ricko & Mini over JWH any day.

They could stay on the field.

Their careers were affected by injury.

JWH's carrer largely affected by suspension.

Relax I love him but stand by the fact he was a selfish player compared to the others.

I'm sure you can work that out.

Not sure of your age, so you may be a bit young to remember this. Got suspended for 3 weeks.

Ultimately, may have cost us the grand final in 2004

[zac]

not good. jwh misses 4 games of the maximum 11 we've got left this year.
not speaking from personal experience but what do they say about herpes? once you get it you don't have to worry about getting it? at least we know he won't get injured or have a season ending suspension in the next 4 rounds.
the boys need to channel what they did when he was in the sin bin on the weekend - everyone needs to lift

[SupermanSupportsEasts4Eva]

To be fair, the length of this suspension is partly due to it being his 3rd similar offense this season, not just the over-grading.

I get that. My point is more that the incident itself didn't warrant a suspension. If he wasn't placed on report or the MRC didn't pick it up then he wouldn't have been suspended at all. Many other tackles occur each game that are much worse that go unnoticed and unpunished.

[Eggspert]

Not sure of your age, so you may be a bit young to remember this. Got suspended for 3 weeks.

Ultimately, may have cost us the grand final in 2004

Hehe

No I remember that very well...also remember his dodgy hammy saga in another GF.

But I think we're stretching it to suggest Ricko cost us anything in 04.

That was Chris bloody Walker.

[milanja]

Hehe

No I remember that very well...also remember his dodgy hammy saga in another GF.

But I think we're stretching it to suggest Ricko cost us anything in 04.

That was Chris bloody Walker.

Be nice if his nephew could get one back for us v dogs 20yrs later

[JAF]

not good. jwh misses 4 games of the maximum 11 we've got left this year.
not speaking from personal experience but what do they say about herpes? once you get it you don't have to worry about getting it? at least we know he won't get injured or have a season ending suspension in the next 4 rounds.
the boys need to channel what they did when he was in the sin bin on the weekend - everyone needs to lift

Thankfully we have good depth to cover this season, with probably Whyte to step up.
This will give JWH a chance to rest and recover from any niggles and Whyte a chance for some game time.

My wish is to have a full strength team fit and firing for the entire finals campaign.
If this happens, then we can dare to dream!!