Yeah I'd have been fine for Tricky to be given more too.
I'm taking the legal part out of it completely. Driving a company car, unlicensed, with drugs in his system and causing an accident with reckless driving rates pretty high on the scale for me. It's not like he rear ended someone. To me it seems the NRL place that just about on par with a racial slur on the field. Neither are good, but they arent the same.
Maybe it means they got the Spencer one wrong and not this one, but either way the inconsistency across the board is BS.
For some reason we don’t have the bold as a fact
Now, you can say you’ve seen the video and it looked very bad and I agree, but in the space where it matters (as far as determining a punishment) neither body (NRL/legal system) cares apparently.
As a mate who is a cop said - it’s not inherently illegal to have a car accident.
If a licensed player with clean system got distracted and had that crash how long should they be suspended for?
Drugs in his system was detected at basically the lowest possible level and unlikely to have been impairing him in any way.
We don’t know how he had an accident.
To me I’d put my money on he was using his phone, but I can’t prove that.
End of the day given the legal wrist slap I think NRL punishment was about right and he has good expensive lawyers to thank both aren’t much more significant as I think an other charge could have come close to doubling his weeks.
Agree accident and slur aren’t the same - I’m sure in the legal system you could find many different examples of different things having similar punishments. Doesn’t bother me if NRL wants to be quite strict on racism.