The current situation with send offs makes no sense - either a change needs to happen or the referees straight up admit it's dead unless you pull a knife on someone mid-game.
The send off has been made into some kind of mythical holy grail of punishments and the longer it isn't used, the more drastic it seems to use it.
An example scenario:
Everyone is all about trying to stamp out lifting tackles from the game, and we're happy to see 8 week suspensions handed out.
Greg Bird receives an 8 week suspension, missing 3 Origin games worth $60,000 of his income. An absolutely massive penalty for at worst a brain snap but more likely a careless moment of lost control. The NRL community is largely unconcerned or feels it is deserved.
But any mention of a send-off where someone might have to miss half an hour of football, and we have calls of "Worst send off ever" "Soft as" "Rugby League is dead" etc..
How does it make sense that we're happy to punish a bloke for 2 months but not 20 mins (as would have been the case with Hurrell last night)?
My suggestion:
If an act of foul play, deemed worthy of report by the referee (so already the referee thinks it's suspension worthy) results in an opposition player being so obviously injured that he will not return to the field of player, the offending player should be sent off. There can be some discretion by the referee for unavoidable accidents, which can happen in RL, but they should lean towards using the send off rather than leaving it as the mythical creature it has become.
If some balancing is required (it wasn't for 100 years), perhaps the offending team could replace the sent-off player after 20 mins to make it 13v13 again, but the sent-off player must remain out of the game for the duration, since he has left the other team 1 short.
The send off debate needs some perspective
The send off has been made into some kind of mythical holy grail of punishments and the longer it isn't used, the more drastic it seems to use it.
An example scenario:
Everyone is all about trying to stamp out lifting tackles from the game, and we're happy to see 8 week suspensions handed out.
Greg Bird receives an 8 week suspension, missing 3 Origin games worth $60,000 of his income. An absolutely massive penalty for at worst a brain snap but more likely a careless moment of lost control. The NRL community is largely unconcerned or feels it is deserved.
But any mention of a send-off where someone might have to miss half an hour of football, and we have calls of "Worst send off ever" "Soft as" "Rugby League is dead" etc..
How does it make sense that we're happy to punish a bloke for 2 months but not 20 mins (as would have been the case with Hurrell last night)?
My suggestion:
If an act of foul play, deemed worthy of report by the referee (so already the referee thinks it's suspension worthy) results in an opposition player being so obviously injured that he will not return to the field of player, the offending player should be sent off. There can be some discretion by the referee for unavoidable accidents, which can happen in RL, but they should lean towards using the send off rather than leaving it as the mythical creature it has become.
If some balancing is required (it wasn't for 100 years), perhaps the offending team could replace the sent-off player after 20 mins to make it 13v13 again, but the sent-off player must remain out of the game for the duration, since he has left the other team 1 short.
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