Foketi gets a Grade 2 Careless High Tackle Charge

[fletch]

Foketi will miss 1 game with an early guilty plea and 2 games if he fights it at the judiciary and doesn't win.

https://www.nrl.com/news/2025/01/01/...y-report-2025/

[Rooster_6]

Challenge, challenge, challenge.

Sorrenson falls into his collar bone and contact is minimal.

If you slow down every tackle you will find a dozen similar incidents every game. This is just incidental contact and going to always be present in a contact sport.

[Bates]

Have they graded Todd Smith's performance yet?

FMD it's far worse when you watch the replay of the game. No 1st grade referee can be so incompetent unless they were attempting to manipulate the scoreline.

[Mr Whippet]

Challenge, challenge, challenge.

Sorrenson falls into his collar bone and contact is minimal.

If you slow down every tackle you will find a dozen similar incidents every game. This is just incidental contact and going to always be present in a contact sport.

Yes absurd, compounded by a grade two, really not much use contesting it, we already know result.

[Carlos Parra]

Ludicrous.

[BTRD]

rubbish

but stoked to win

[Red.]

Grade 2 is ridiculous. Sin bin was more than sufficient.

[Barron's Dream]

I don't even think it was a penalty.

[Andrew Walker]

Doubling down on the ridiculous sin binning

[JAF]

This type of penalty and punishment is changing the fabric of the game that we love - if we continue down this path, I fear that rugby league will die as a sport one day …

[Vasco]

Grade 2 is ridiculous. Sin bin was more than sufficient.

I'm not convinced it was even a sin bin. None of the commentators (both channels) thought it was either.

[Eggspert]

I'm just speechless...that charge is embarrassing.

[Rooster_6]

This type of penalty and punishment is changing the fabric of the game that we love - if we continue down this path, I fear that rugby league will die as a sport one day …

Yeh I'm waiting for the recalibration where as a game we say this is going too far but they've gagged all the club officials and commentators are too scared to say anything with new bargaining agreements going on so I don't see it changing any time soon.

Head in the sand type behaviour from the current administration.

If you become a boxer or an MMA fighter you are accepting the risks associated with the sport. So long as NRL players understand the risk of our game before they start playing then there is no grounds to sue the league unless you can prove negligence or a breach of the rules by the governing body that puts players at risk.

If a competition like the UFC and power slap can be legislated into sport by governing bodies then we shouldn't need to water down our game any further. Good steps have been made with HIA's and stand down protocols but like you said we can not change the fabric of our game and we should be unapologetic about enjoying one of the most violent and brutal sports in the world.

[SamKerrSimp]

Ahhhhh you're off your head! They've given him a grade 2 careless to try and justify what a stinker of a decision it was.

[Juggler]

Based on what has gone in the past, it’s a grade 1 at worst. To say it was nothing pretty much ignores everything that has happened over the last few years.