Official Andrew Fifita

gando2230 · Aug 6, 2015

6 week BBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Capital_Shark · Aug 6, 2015

Tank said:
This penalty should now be the yardstick for all poor behaviour by NRL players. Bet it's not though!

No it shouldn't. Even if someone does the exact same thing as the Fifitas, they should cop it worse as this penalty was obviously not a deterant.

Nicholas2230 said:
Sharks media release

The Cronulla Sharks announced today that Andrew and David Fifita have both accepted six round suspensions for incident at an A Grade match conducted by the Penrith and District Junior Rugby League last month.

Andrew has also been fined $30,000 and will perform 25 hours of service to support junior Rugby League and match officials across the Cronulla Sutherland District Junior Rugby League.

In addition, he will provide a written apology to the match officials involved in the incident and undergo an appropriate development course.

In addition to his suspension, David will perform 25 hours of support to Junior Rugby League and match officials across the Cronulla Sutherland District Junior Rugby League.

He will apologise to the match officials involved and the Penrith and District Junior Rugby League.

The six-round NRL suspensions imposed on both players include rounds 21-26 of the current NRL Premiership season.

Sharks CEO Lyall Gorman said both players had expressed genuine remorse over the incident and the impact of the incident on on all parties.

hahaha the obligitory "development course".

northofthebordershark · Aug 6, 2015

Not ideal, now they'll be going into finals football underdone.

IMO this saga has been beyond laughable, the incident they're accused of is on par with Jennings smashing up the carparks boomgate, more or less nothing.

HaroldBishop · Aug 6, 2015

BlackWhiteBlue said:
The most obvious media bias about this is that everything has been about Andrew. Not both of them.

Also that every report mentions junior match or junior ref......makes it much more dramatic than saying a 24 year old ref in an A grade match

Mate the media will always focus on the higher profile player. They're selling papers. Just life unfortunately.

BlackWhiteBlue · Aug 6, 2015

HaroldBishop said:
Mate the media will always focus on the higher profile player. They're selling papers. Just life unfortunately.

Yeah i know that but i mean here we had 2 players involved, twins, but if you just tuned in you wouldnt know.

Anyway its finalised, i think 3-4 weeks woulda been enough but its done time to move on

sharks2010 · Aug 6, 2015

Could have been at least a 5 week ban so they are back a week before the finals
****s. 6 weeks for that

Capital_Shark · Aug 6, 2015

sharks2010 said:
Could have been at least a 5 week ban so they are back a week before the finals
****s. 6 weeks for that

They'll be back for rd1 of finals, won't they?

sharks2010 · Aug 6, 2015

Capital_Shark said:
They'll be back for rd1 of finals, won't they?

yeah. But would have been good to get a game under their belts before the finals

Capital_Shark · Aug 6, 2015

sharks2010 said:
yeah. But would have been good to get a game under their belts before the finals

Yeah read it wrong first off mate didn't register the "back a week before" bit. Its the little details, like playing the ball correctly.

Almost beer o'clock. I should be more cognitive after that.

gando2230 · Aug 6, 2015

Callers on talkin sport blowing up delux about it not harsh enough.

Super Impose · Aug 6, 2015

BlackWhiteBlue said:
The most obvious media bias about this is that everything has been about Andrew. Not both of them.

Also that every report mentions junior match or junior ref......makes it much more dramatic than saying a 24 year old ref in an A grade match

Not to mention Matt Lodge.

He has sailed through unscathed.

sharks2010 · Aug 6, 2015

Super Impose said:
Not to mention Matt Lodge.

He has sailed through unscathed.

Pretty sure he was found to have no involvement in the matter

Capital_Shark · Aug 6, 2015

gando2230 said:
Callers on talkin sport blowing up delux about it not harsh enough.

hahaha **** 'em.

I can't listen to that sorta stuff its absolutely cringe worthy listening to grown men get all fired up enough to call a radio station and bitch like an idiot as if anyone cares. I feel embarrassed for them.

sharks2010 · Aug 6, 2015

Capital_Shark said:
hahaha **** 'em.

I can't listen to that sorta stuff its absolutely cringe worthy listening to grown men get all fired up enough to call a radio station and bitch like an idiot as if anyone cares. I feel embarrassed for them.

lol Chad calls up radio stations...

sharkstragic · Aug 6, 2015

sharks2010 said:
Pretty sure he was found to have no involvement in the matter

I think all he did was ask the officials to forget the incident and not take it further. Heard thsat somewhere

Capital_Shark · Aug 6, 2015

sharks2010 said:
lol Chad calls up radio stations...

Yeah?

Well thats okay cause Chad is ours.

sharks2010 · Aug 6, 2015

sharkstragic said:
I think all he did was ask the officials to forget the incident and not take it further. Heard thsat somewhere

and you want him punished for that

Capital_Shark · Aug 6, 2015

Matt Lodge and the Fifita boys. A meeting of the minds that one.

evertonshark · Aug 6, 2015

gando2230 said:
Callers on talkin sport blowing up delux about it not harsh enough.

Mouth breathers.

I bet hughes is agreeing with them too.

Bundy Shark · Aug 6, 2015

Anyone know the details of the suspension or standing down, can they continue to train with the rest of the boys or are they 'quarantined' & must train by themselves?

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