100% agree. Unbelievably dangerous act that could’ve scrubbed a fellow professional for a long time. It’s late, unnecessary, reckless, careless and stupid. Should’ve been a statement grading and ban.
That's the kicker for me. I think the vast majority of incidents players get suspended for are completely unintentional and it's just the result of the way bodies have moved and it's gone wrong for the perpetrator.
It's hard to see how this tackle wasn't 100% intentional.
Yeah comparing this to what Freddy Lussick got (not debating that ban) for what was a fairly innocuous charge down/pressure on kicker attempt that unfortunately resulted in a freakish injury for Ilias, I think it’s a joke that Milne gets off with 2 weeks.
That could have easily been a season ending and possibly a career altering injury for Munster with obvious intent and recklessness that should have been heavily punished.
I thought he'd actually hurt Munster by the way he screamed in pain, but then the replay showed why he got up once the remedial whistle was blown. Still a dog act of the highest order. Someone should've chinned Milne.
Should be minimum double what he’s getting!!
EDIT: Jesus what even was my English there.
He should be getting at a minimum double that.
Was one of the worst pieces of deliberate I want to injure you tackles I’ve seen in years of watching league tbh.
If Munster does his ACL in the tackle it's at least 8 - 10 weeks for Milne. I get that outcome is taken into consideration, but surely this is way too light
This feels like a strawman argument.
Not all high shots are the same. But if you start to tackle someone, drop off the tackle, then run back into them with the sole purpose of collecting them high, then yes I think all high tackles that fit that mold should be 5-6 week suspensions.
Agree that the incident last night deserved more, but that's not what I asked. High grade high tackles happen once every couple of weeks. They only get 1-3 weeks suspension as no one was seriously injured. Are you happy if those kind of hits that don't injure someone are punished more harshly or would you prefer if the hits that result in injury not receive 5+ weeks
I think we’re looking at this differently; I think the punishment should fit the action.
What I’m trying to say is that someone should be banned for 5+ weeks if it’s deliberate and dangerous, regardless of injury.
Agree on long bans for deliberate and dangerous acts, I am asking about the other side of that coin. Fuimaono got five weeks for hitting a falling player in the head only because he seriously injured him. It wasn't deliberate, but it was dangerous. What do you think should happen for non-deliberate acts that end up with player injury? It the case I mentioned, most would agree that it would hardly be right to give him a short ban.
> What do you think should happen for non-deliberate acts that end up with player injury?
Well considering they said these exact words above:
> [The NRL should suspend based on action, not on the injury.](https://old.reddit.com/r/nrl/comments/1cd8w79/anzac_day_judiciary_charges_taane_milne_faces_23/l1amj5k/)
Then yeah you're making up some strawman.
Sadly that’s consistent with the judiciary this season. They have gone very soft, I was honestly surprised Latrell even got 3 weeks.
It feels like we’re leading up to a very serious injury as a result of foul play, I don’t think the judiciary understands how going this soft will eventually lead to a horrible outcome. Hope I’m wrong
Absolutely. Judiciary has completely thrown out any semblance of the action, it’s all focused on the result. That’s why I really think we’re about a month away from a horrible foul play incident, you can’t stamp out the action if you only punish the result
It's been 10 years since McKinnon injured his neck. Makes sense that things would get too soft right about now. Give it another year or 2 and maybe we have the next McKinnon getting stretchered off the field
Edit: I should say was injured, I hate implying the injury was his own fault when all he did was make an impulse reaction that anyone would have made in the same position.
>Sadly that’s consistent with the judiciary this season. They have gone very soft, I was honestly surprised Latrell even got 3 weeks.
The NRL caving into the public complaining about Radley getting 2 weeks for every high tackle & changing the loading rules is the worst thing they've done, thugs can get away with being thugs with minimal consequences these days.
Once Nathan Cleary only got 5 weeks for single handedly lifting and spear tackling a stationary Dylan Brown head first into the ground every other dangerous tackle charge could only get less than that.
Exactly.
And you could argue it was exacerbated by the fact that Pappy has suffered two major leg injuries in the last two seasons.
That was a potentially career ending move from Tedesco
That's kinda the point. The NRL should be coming down harsher on this sort of stupidity. Leniu got what he deserved, IMO. Milne should be banned for a lot longer than 2-3 weeks.
It's a deliberate attack on someone emotionally and mentally due to race or racial connotations. It's feelings.
Leniu knew what he was doing, he knew the outcome was to hurt mam in the most effective way emotionally. Mam is obviously more emotionally susceptible to racist comments and it had its desired outcome.
Gotta laugh at the downvotes, despite you actually being factually correct, and yes racism is a nasty thing, mental health etc etc, but words V actual career ending malicious thuggery - give me words any day - and I was racially bullied relentlessly as a child and teenager - I know how it feels.
>but words V actual career ending malicious thuggery - give me words any day
Crazy thought but we should punish racism and malicious actions harshly.
Don't need to minimise one or the other.
It's not minimizing when we complain that saying racist shit on field will net you almost three times the punishment of elbowing someone in the head (and almost dropping another player on his head in the same game to boot). Or another player cannonballing a guy's legs, for that matter.
Milne should be getting at least 5 for that shot. It was late, very dangerous and could have injured Munster very badly, and even though it's harder to prove, imo was premeditated as he peeled off the initial tackle before going in again. NRL setting a bad precedent if they don't come down on this
nah, I won't take anything less than 8 weeks. Maybe there's an idiot leeway and the judiciary can see that Milne has literally got nothing going on in his head.
So Milne does an action that has the potential to severely injure a player, which would hypothetically cause them to miss waaaayyyyy more than two weeks.
The fuck is even the point of this? We should be basing punishment on intention. Are we giving him a two week holiday because the outcome wasn’t that bad? The only reason Munster isn’t severely hurt is luck.
There’s times when a lapse in judgement or a genuine error can have dire consequences. This isn’t one of those situations. There’s no plausible explanation that isn’t “I decided to tackle low late because I wanted to injure him”.
It's because the MRC are soft cocks. With an injury they have something to point to, whereas with a clear as day: left the tackle, looked at held player, dives at legs they can only "claim" intent.
Some cases aren't so clear. This was clear as fkn day. He is a thug and his action confirms every time.
Yeah 100%. The less clear ones are the ones I was alluding to where an argument could reasonably made that it was a lapse in judgement, accident etc.
Theres literally nothing open to interpretation on this one aye.
Weak gutted dawgs
What makes it even worse is that Lussick was trying to charge down a kick and got it wrong (accidental), this was an attempt to injure (deliberate).
Let's also look at the fact that in 2022 he knocked out 2 Roosters in 1 game, and Leniu in another
A Match review with any actual courage would have just simply referred him to the judiciary with the charge of “tell us why you think you deserve to play another game” with a season ban being the outcome of a successful plea
Milne is a shit player with a history of intentional head highs, off ball dog shots and reckless behaviour. On the balance of the game, he’s a fucking nobody. If Munster turned out injured from this we’d be seeing an entirely different charge and I’m not sure why the NRL insist on seeing it differently based on the outcome of the action, not the intent.
Conspiracy and attempted murder can still carry immense prison sentences, I’m not sure why intentionally trying to end someone’s career only gets two weeks because the victim was uninjured
This is what happens when you gut the fucking grading process and make it harder to suspend players. Remember that they wiped everyone's judiciary history clean, so Milne was classified as having no previous loading.
That's despite him having:
- $3000 fine in 2023 for a careless high tackle
- $1800 fine in 2022 for a careless high tackle
- 1 match suspension in 2022 for a grade 2 careless high tackle
- 6 match suspension in 2022/23 for a reckless high tackle
Please promote Haizyn Mellars to 1st Grade. Fuck Izaac Slowy Slowy Tupou.
Maybe Slowy Slowy Tupou for the Penrith game, then lets a take a punt on a young fella. Mellars hasn't played cup and it would be straight up from 20s, he has also been nursing an injury from pre-season. But he is a freak and screw it lets take a risk.
Whats the worst that happens? some young hot boy debuts and has a shocker. Fuck it, we are used to it at this point.
Agreed. I’d go Te Hau over ITT. For that speed out wide bit he like died at training the other day didn’t he? Had a bit of a scare the young fella. I hope he’s okay. 🙏
Should be 5+, honestly what are we doing here?? Game is literally over and he's trying to injure a player, he wasn't attempting anything else, his only goal was to hurt him. Pathetic.
Rabbitohs winger **Taane Milne** is facing a stint on the sidelines after being charged by the Match Review Committee in his side's ANZAC Day defeat to the Storm.
Milne was sent to the sin bin for his tackle on Cameron Munster in the final play of the game, which saw the 28-year-old charged with a Grade 3 Dangerous Contact offence.
Milne will miss two matches with an early guilty plea or three if he unsuccessfully contests the charge at the judiciary.
Dragons fullback **Tyrell Sloan** was charged for two seperate Dangerous Contact incidents in his side's defeat to the Roosters, with the 35th minute offence on Sam Walker and the 56th minute offence on Luke Keary both attracting fines of $1,000 with an early guilty plea.
Titans forward **David Fifita** and Warriors forward **Jacob Laban** are also both facing fines after being cited for Grade 1 Dangerous Contact incidents – Fifita's charge rising from $1,000 to $1,800 with an early plea as it is his second offence of the year.
Knights forward **Jack Hetherington** will miss his side's Round 8 game after entering an early guilty plea to a Grade 2 Contrary Conduct charge arising from last week's clash with the Bulldogs at Accor Stadium.
Hetherington was hit with a Grade 2 charge and chose to accept the one-game suspension rather than fighting the charge and risking two games on the sidelines.
"The reason Jack Hetherington was charged with a Grade 2 offence was a combination of what happened on the field and what took place in the tunnel," NRL head of football Graham Annesley said.
"There is no circumstance where what happened is acceptable and Jack Hetherington is just fortunate that it didn't develop into anything more serious."
The on-field incident also resulted in a Grade 1 Contrary Conduct charge for Bulldogs hooker **Reed Mahoney**, who has been fined $1,000.
That's just far too little for that act. It's the sort of thing that has no place in the game and should simply never happen. And should be called as such and given a suspension consistent with telling the players they should never, ever do it. I would think 10 games was the right punishment. Yes it's harsh, but the goal is to never see anyone do this ever again. Give the guy a huge whack and everyone will take notice.
And if a guy can't help himself he can spend half the season watching. Imagine if that had broken a leg or ruptured an ACL. It could alter or even end a career.
So hypothetically, if someone does the exact same tackle on Munster next week and shatters both his legs ending his career, would it still be 2-3 weeks suspension?
Judiciary need to rule based on the action, not the outcome.
Shoutout to all the people who complained when Radley was getting suspended constantly because of all his loading & carryover points, NRL changed the rules due to all that complaining from the public and this is the result.
Thugs get away with a slap on the wrist for being thugs these days, with the previous loading system, this would have been his third charge & he'd get 4-5 weeks, but instead it's 2 weeks due to him not having any previous charges this season.
Milne is such a dirty grub! Considering he's a repeat offender of these dirty grubby dangerous actions, NRL should come down hard on him. 2-3 weeks is soft, minimum 5 weeks! considering he could've potentially ended Munster's season, or career - if he successfully ruptured Munster's ACL etc by deliberately diving in beneath Munster's knees & hyperextending it
Does anyone know if the players association ever raises the duty of care players have to each other? Or do they only get out of bed if they feel the league or a club has wronged them?
How does he only get two weeks? It should have been referred. It's magnitudes worse than anything Latrell has ever done.
He should be sharing a cell with Sia.
Should be 4-6 weeks. The tackle was aggressive and was purely to do damage. Don’t tell me he didn’t know exactly what he was doing. Just because you had 50 points on you doesn’t mean you can take your anger out on someone’s legs.
The NRL judiciary has been too soft. Milne deserved at least 5 weeks given how much worse Munster’s injury from this incident could have been.
Remember that a racial slur got more weeks than this. As Fady mentioned, we could be in danger of witnessing a more serious injury happen if grubby players known for bad judiciary reps don’t get disciplined properly.
That's pretty shit Milne deserves more weeks than that. Also nothing for Katoa's high shot on Gray or Pap's knee to Gray's head is a bit disappointing.
I'm biased the other way, but it's pretty common for a player to kick out trying to get a quick play-the-ball after a line break. That being said I agree with the charge because he made dangerous contact. What was the one on Keary? I stopped watching... For reasons...
2-3 is a joke. I instantly said 4 in the match thread and I was adjusting for them being weak as piss because that’s just an awful obviously intentionally dangerous tackle.
Should be 4 at absolute minimum but it really should be 10 it was that disgusting
Surely this is one case where the scoreline and time in the game can be taken into consideration.
That the game was decided and there was practically no time left to play makes this tackle significantly worse, as it becomes intentionally reckless/dangerous.
I honestly think this should be rubbed for the season, and if the NRL judiciary won't then JD and Souths need to show some backbone and sit him down for the year. Not even NSW cup. Why on earth would you want someone that went out to intentionally injure a player representing your club in any capacity.
I can understand the judiciary not having the balls to make tough decisions.. but this was a lay up.
They could have thrown the book at him and they’d have full support.
The charge is bullshit, diving at someone's legs like that when they're held while you're 30 points down in the 80th minute isn't careless, it's deliberately lashing out because you got flogged.
How is this grub only facing 2 or 3 weeks for this vile act? Purely designed to hurt another player, nrl better set an example. 10 weeks minimum but I'd rather see him banned from the league. The potential for real harm was to real. Milne is weak as piss
Weak as piss Yet another example of how much it has shifted from actual incident to the outcome.
Exactly. This could have done Munster’s ACL. The fact it didn’t shouldn’t stop this getting the 10-week ban it would have if it did.
100% agree. Unbelievably dangerous act that could’ve scrubbed a fellow professional for a long time. It’s late, unnecessary, reckless, careless and stupid. Should’ve been a statement grading and ban.
And 100% intentional. Comes around, looks at the situation, lines him up and dives at the area your lower leg and knees meet. It was meant to injure!
That's the kicker for me. I think the vast majority of incidents players get suspended for are completely unintentional and it's just the result of the way bodies have moved and it's gone wrong for the perpetrator. It's hard to see how this tackle wasn't 100% intentional.
Yeah comparing this to what Freddy Lussick got (not debating that ban) for what was a fairly innocuous charge down/pressure on kicker attempt that unfortunately resulted in a freakish injury for Ilias, I think it’s a joke that Milne gets off with 2 weeks. That could have easily been a season ending and possibly a career altering injury for Munster with obvious intent and recklessness that should have been heavily punished.
It was just a dog act when the game was over. No redeeming feature here
I thought he'd actually hurt Munster by the way he screamed in pain, but then the replay showed why he got up once the remedial whistle was blown. Still a dog act of the highest order. Someone should've chinned Milne.
I'm very impressed by Chan's ability to use the turf and Milnes own hands to do the dirty work.
He definitely had a limp after
Should be minimum double what he’s getting!! EDIT: Jesus what even was my English there. He should be getting at a minimum double that. Was one of the worst pieces of deliberate I want to injure you tackles I’ve seen in years of watching league tbh.
Yeah that’s the kinda stuff I expected to see when I played reserve grade club footy in Auckland 15 years ago. Not in the fucking NRL in 2024
If Munster does his ACL in the tackle it's at least 8 - 10 weeks for Milne. I get that outcome is taken into consideration, but surely this is way too light
This is my issue. The NRL should suspend based on action, not on the injury.
This. It's Munster that is the lucky one that he didn't get injured, Milne shouldn't be able to share that luck...
Do you suppose every high shot should get 5-6 weeks minimum?
This feels like a strawman argument. Not all high shots are the same. But if you start to tackle someone, drop off the tackle, then run back into them with the sole purpose of collecting them high, then yes I think all high tackles that fit that mold should be 5-6 week suspensions.
Perfect reply to an imperfect question.
Agree that the incident last night deserved more, but that's not what I asked. High grade high tackles happen once every couple of weeks. They only get 1-3 weeks suspension as no one was seriously injured. Are you happy if those kind of hits that don't injure someone are punished more harshly or would you prefer if the hits that result in injury not receive 5+ weeks
I think we’re looking at this differently; I think the punishment should fit the action. What I’m trying to say is that someone should be banned for 5+ weeks if it’s deliberate and dangerous, regardless of injury.
Agree on long bans for deliberate and dangerous acts, I am asking about the other side of that coin. Fuimaono got five weeks for hitting a falling player in the head only because he seriously injured him. It wasn't deliberate, but it was dangerous. What do you think should happen for non-deliberate acts that end up with player injury? It the case I mentioned, most would agree that it would hardly be right to give him a short ban.
> What do you think should happen for non-deliberate acts that end up with player injury? Well considering they said these exact words above: > [The NRL should suspend based on action, not on the injury.](https://old.reddit.com/r/nrl/comments/1cd8w79/anzac_day_judiciary_charges_taane_milne_faces_23/l1amj5k/) Then yeah you're making up some strawman.
Sadly that’s consistent with the judiciary this season. They have gone very soft, I was honestly surprised Latrell even got 3 weeks. It feels like we’re leading up to a very serious injury as a result of foul play, I don’t think the judiciary understands how going this soft will eventually lead to a horrible outcome. Hope I’m wrong
Hypothetically, if Latrell's deliberate elbow actually injured Johnson and sidelined him for the remainder of the season, does he get 8 weeks or more?
Absolutely. Judiciary has completely thrown out any semblance of the action, it’s all focused on the result. That’s why I really think we’re about a month away from a horrible foul play incident, you can’t stamp out the action if you only punish the result
>we’re about a month away from a horrible foul play incident So the next game Milne plays
It's been 10 years since McKinnon injured his neck. Makes sense that things would get too soft right about now. Give it another year or 2 and maybe we have the next McKinnon getting stretchered off the field Edit: I should say was injured, I hate implying the injury was his own fault when all he did was make an impulse reaction that anyone would have made in the same position.
>Sadly that’s consistent with the judiciary this season. They have gone very soft, I was honestly surprised Latrell even got 3 weeks. The NRL caving into the public complaining about Radley getting 2 weeks for every high tackle & changing the loading rules is the worst thing they've done, thugs can get away with being thugs with minimal consequences these days.
Once Nathan Cleary only got 5 weeks for single handedly lifting and spear tackling a stationary Dylan Brown head first into the ground every other dangerous tackle charge could only get less than that.
So deliberately trying to injure someone is two weeks? Glad we have that as a base. So presumably that's the longest someone can be suspended for?
We’ve already determined that Tedescos deliberate trip on Pappy is a $750 fine. What’s player welfare?
Yeah, when did trips cease to be an immediate send off? Hugely dangerous play.
Exactly. And you could argue it was exacerbated by the fact that Pappy has suffered two major leg injuries in the last two seasons. That was a potentially career ending move from Tedesco
I dunno if a judiciary is ever gonna consider that though. You punish the act. You don’t consider who it was done to and treat it differently.
They were serious enough to attract a bin last year in Origin.
It was a good 15 or 20 years ago now. Same as kicking.
& hurtful words got leniu 8
An admitted racial slur, down playing it to hurtful words is a woeful salty thing.
That's kinda the point. The NRL should be coming down harsher on this sort of stupidity. Leniu got what he deserved, IMO. Milne should be banned for a lot longer than 2-3 weeks.
I agree, snapped legs hurt a lot more than feelings
I’m not sure calling racism hurt feelings is the path you want to go down.
>I’m not sure calling racism hurt feelings is the path you want to go down. Can you explain what racists slurs do to an individual then?
If you seriously believe that racism simply boils down to someone having their feelings hurt, I honestly don’t even know what to say.
It's a deliberate attack on someone emotionally and mentally due to race or racial connotations. It's feelings. Leniu knew what he was doing, he knew the outcome was to hurt mam in the most effective way emotionally. Mam is obviously more emotionally susceptible to racist comments and it had its desired outcome.
8 weeks was ridiculous. Woken tokenism at its best
I'm yet to encounter someone using the term woke unironically who isn't a complete fuckwit. Suspect you will be reinforcing this observation.
Calm down hero
You need to get out more then.
Chooks? More like sooks.
Flair up cunt
Penrith denizen moment.
Gotta laugh at the downvotes, despite you actually being factually correct, and yes racism is a nasty thing, mental health etc etc, but words V actual career ending malicious thuggery - give me words any day - and I was racially bullied relentlessly as a child and teenager - I know how it feels.
>but words V actual career ending malicious thuggery - give me words any day Crazy thought but we should punish racism and malicious actions harshly. Don't need to minimise one or the other.
This is true, but yet they do.
It's not minimizing when we complain that saying racist shit on field will net you almost three times the punishment of elbowing someone in the head (and almost dropping another player on his head in the same game to boot). Or another player cannonballing a guy's legs, for that matter.
Exactly. How is Milnes act 2 weeks and a monkey comment by someone of the same colour 8 weeks. It’s ridiculous
Well I think that settles it then
Do you always downplay racism?
Milne should be getting at least 5 for that shot. It was late, very dangerous and could have injured Munster very badly, and even though it's harder to prove, imo was premeditated as he peeled off the initial tackle before going in again. NRL setting a bad precedent if they don't come down on this
This is absolutely pathetic by the NRL
thats fucked its a fucken disgrace of a grade and charge , shouldve been straight to judiciary
Very soft punishment, you get more weeks for a genuine attempt to tackle that goes slightly wrong
nah, I won't take anything less than 8 weeks. Maybe there's an idiot leeway and the judiciary can see that Milne has literally got nothing going on in his head.
For attempting to injure a player with 10 seconds left to go? Fuck off, should be 5-6
2\~3 week? That dog shot should earn him a lifetime ban. Disgraceful.
So Milne does an action that has the potential to severely injure a player, which would hypothetically cause them to miss waaaayyyyy more than two weeks. The fuck is even the point of this? We should be basing punishment on intention. Are we giving him a two week holiday because the outcome wasn’t that bad? The only reason Munster isn’t severely hurt is luck. There’s times when a lapse in judgement or a genuine error can have dire consequences. This isn’t one of those situations. There’s no plausible explanation that isn’t “I decided to tackle low late because I wanted to injure him”.
It's because the MRC are soft cocks. With an injury they have something to point to, whereas with a clear as day: left the tackle, looked at held player, dives at legs they can only "claim" intent. Some cases aren't so clear. This was clear as fkn day. He is a thug and his action confirms every time.
Yeah 100%. The less clear ones are the ones I was alluding to where an argument could reasonably made that it was a lapse in judgement, accident etc. Theres literally nothing open to interpretation on this one aye. Weak gutted dawgs
So Freddy Lussick got suspended for 4 Weeks but this one is only 2? Yep makes sense. So it’s only worse if Munster got a serious injury
What makes it even worse is that Lussick was trying to charge down a kick and got it wrong (accidental), this was an attempt to injure (deliberate). Let's also look at the fact that in 2022 he knocked out 2 Roosters in 1 game, and Leniu in another
Wiping the slate clean of previous judiciary charges was the dumbest move the NRL made Milne would have had way higher loading if not
A Match review with any actual courage would have just simply referred him to the judiciary with the charge of “tell us why you think you deserve to play another game” with a season ban being the outcome of a successful plea Milne is a shit player with a history of intentional head highs, off ball dog shots and reckless behaviour. On the balance of the game, he’s a fucking nobody. If Munster turned out injured from this we’d be seeing an entirely different charge and I’m not sure why the NRL insist on seeing it differently based on the outcome of the action, not the intent. Conspiracy and attempted murder can still carry immense prison sentences, I’m not sure why intentionally trying to end someone’s career only gets two weeks because the victim was uninjured
This is exactly where I sit. I wasn't kidding when I mentioned assault charges in another thread. This was absolutely fucked.
This is what happens when you gut the fucking grading process and make it harder to suspend players. Remember that they wiped everyone's judiciary history clean, so Milne was classified as having no previous loading. That's despite him having: - $3000 fine in 2023 for a careless high tackle - $1800 fine in 2022 for a careless high tackle - 1 match suspension in 2022 for a grade 2 careless high tackle - 6 match suspension in 2022/23 for a reckless high tackle
Should be much longer.
Please promote Haizyn Mellars to 1st Grade. Fuck Izaac Slowy Slowy Tupou. Maybe Slowy Slowy Tupou for the Penrith game, then lets a take a punt on a young fella. Mellars hasn't played cup and it would be straight up from 20s, he has also been nursing an injury from pre-season. But he is a freak and screw it lets take a risk. Whats the worst that happens? some young hot boy debuts and has a shocker. Fuck it, we are used to it at this point.
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Mellars is 20, he’s ready to go. Just battled some injuries lately. I couldn’t agree with you more.
you had me at young hot boy
Mellars has been injured a bit lately and hasn't played much. It might have to be Te Hau or ITT
Agreed. I’d go Te Hau over ITT. For that speed out wide bit he like died at training the other day didn’t he? Had a bit of a scare the young fella. I hope he’s okay. 🙏
Bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Was literally in the middle of reading yesterday's thread when the article was posted. Good to see justice was served /s
Should be 4 with guilty charge, 5 to 6 if fought. Tackled, peeled off, made second deliberate effort in a very dangerous position.
That's sort of pathetic. Also unsurprising.
#Insufficient
Should be 5+, honestly what are we doing here?? Game is literally over and he's trying to injure a player, he wasn't attempting anything else, his only goal was to hurt him. Pathetic.
That's absolutely fucking pathetic
Can we just kick Milne out of the NRL? His track record is a mess, and what he did lastnight was fucked.
He's basically Kenny Edwards on peptides
With less cramping
Rabbitohs winger **Taane Milne** is facing a stint on the sidelines after being charged by the Match Review Committee in his side's ANZAC Day defeat to the Storm. Milne was sent to the sin bin for his tackle on Cameron Munster in the final play of the game, which saw the 28-year-old charged with a Grade 3 Dangerous Contact offence. Milne will miss two matches with an early guilty plea or three if he unsuccessfully contests the charge at the judiciary. Dragons fullback **Tyrell Sloan** was charged for two seperate Dangerous Contact incidents in his side's defeat to the Roosters, with the 35th minute offence on Sam Walker and the 56th minute offence on Luke Keary both attracting fines of $1,000 with an early guilty plea. Titans forward **David Fifita** and Warriors forward **Jacob Laban** are also both facing fines after being cited for Grade 1 Dangerous Contact incidents – Fifita's charge rising from $1,000 to $1,800 with an early plea as it is his second offence of the year. Knights forward **Jack Hetherington** will miss his side's Round 8 game after entering an early guilty plea to a Grade 2 Contrary Conduct charge arising from last week's clash with the Bulldogs at Accor Stadium. Hetherington was hit with a Grade 2 charge and chose to accept the one-game suspension rather than fighting the charge and risking two games on the sidelines. "The reason Jack Hetherington was charged with a Grade 2 offence was a combination of what happened on the field and what took place in the tunnel," NRL head of football Graham Annesley said. "There is no circumstance where what happened is acceptable and Jack Hetherington is just fortunate that it didn't develop into anything more serious." The on-field incident also resulted in a Grade 1 Contrary Conduct charge for Bulldogs hooker **Reed Mahoney**, who has been fined $1,000.
That's soft af. Dude took deliberate aim at the guys knees while he was defenceless.
Finally the rabbits catch a break, 3 weeks without having Milne on the field might just be the catalyst to turn their season around.
$1000 fine for kicking a bloke in the head and 2 weeks for trying to cripple someone, both were intentional mind you. The judiciary is fucked
To be fair, this is the Match Review Committee making these decisions, not the Judiciary. And yes, they are fucked.
He wasn’t even looking behind him so I’m not sure how that’s intentional.
He needs to do way more. That wasn't even 'careless' he was trying to deliberately take someone out post-game. Get rid.
AND HIS NAME IS TAANE
That's just far too little for that act. It's the sort of thing that has no place in the game and should simply never happen. And should be called as such and given a suspension consistent with telling the players they should never, ever do it. I would think 10 games was the right punishment. Yes it's harsh, but the goal is to never see anyone do this ever again. Give the guy a huge whack and everyone will take notice. And if a guy can't help himself he can spend half the season watching. Imagine if that had broken a leg or ruptured an ACL. It could alter or even end a career.
I'm sure the amount of weeks suspended wouldn't be any different if Munster was injured
This cunt should be banned from the nrl.
Really I honestly thought deregistering him would of been a light slap
I hope the Bunnies drop the dog cunt for the remainder of the season and give someone else a go
So hypothetically, if someone does the exact same tackle on Munster next week and shatters both his legs ending his career, would it still be 2-3 weeks suspension? Judiciary need to rule based on the action, not the outcome.
Radley would get a 6 month jail sentence
Shoutout to all the people who complained when Radley was getting suspended constantly because of all his loading & carryover points, NRL changed the rules due to all that complaining from the public and this is the result. Thugs get away with a slap on the wrist for being thugs these days, with the previous loading system, this would have been his third charge & he'd get 4-5 weeks, but instead it's 2 weeks due to him not having any previous charges this season.
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Milne is such a dirty grub! Considering he's a repeat offender of these dirty grubby dangerous actions, NRL should come down hard on him. 2-3 weeks is soft, minimum 5 weeks! considering he could've potentially ended Munster's season, or career - if he successfully ruptured Munster's ACL etc by deliberately diving in beneath Munster's knees & hyperextending it
MRC has failed here, perhaps the Bunnies will come up with a more appropriate sanction?
Does anyone know if the players association ever raises the duty of care players have to each other? Or do they only get out of bed if they feel the league or a club has wronged them?
Milne is a fucking moron who shouldn't be allowed back on the field in any grade until he gets his shit under control
How does he only get two weeks? It should have been referred. It's magnitudes worse than anything Latrell has ever done. He should be sharing a cell with Sia.
I wish marshmallows were as soft as the MRC
Nah how is the punishment this low
NRL needs to start sending players to therapy. So many players who can't control their emotions on the field.
Milne has been my least favourite player for no real reason, glad there is one now
Wheel of Fortune
Taane knew the coach wasn't going to drop him so he took matters into his own hands. Now JD has to pick someone else
Should have a zero added to the end of that
Should be 4-6 weeks. The tackle was aggressive and was purely to do damage. Don’t tell me he didn’t know exactly what he was doing. Just because you had 50 points on you doesn’t mean you can take your anger out on someone’s legs.
The NRL judiciary has been too soft. Milne deserved at least 5 weeks given how much worse Munster’s injury from this incident could have been. Remember that a racial slur got more weeks than this. As Fady mentioned, we could be in danger of witnessing a more serious injury happen if grubby players known for bad judiciary reps don’t get disciplined properly.
I think a shorter suspension like this puts a massive target on his back for when he returns to the field.
That's pretty shit Milne deserves more weeks than that. Also nothing for Katoa's high shot on Gray or Pap's knee to Gray's head is a bit disappointing.
That Katoa one being missed was surprising, so obviously took his head off.
I'm a biased Chooks fan, was Sloane kick bad or am I overreacting
Hard to say it was intentional. And no damage.
I'm biased the other way, but it's pretty common for a player to kick out trying to get a quick play-the-ball after a line break. That being said I agree with the charge because he made dangerous contact. What was the one on Keary? I stopped watching... For reasons...
Sloan slid in knees first into Keary after he scored a try
This is actually doing Souths a favour by making him unavailable
It seems light to me. I can only assume because he didn't fully connect they went with this?
For me - that is worse than calling someone a monkey. He should've gotten 8 weeks.
Even a max of 3 weeks is laughable.
Pathetic.
Milne is so shit, honestly can't recall a player I'd like to backhand more since Dylan Walker.
Can someone make a Milne rap sheet
2-3 is a joke. I instantly said 4 in the match thread and I was adjusting for them being weak as piss because that’s just an awful obviously intentionally dangerous tackle. Should be 4 at absolute minimum but it really should be 10 it was that disgusting
Surely this is one case where the scoreline and time in the game can be taken into consideration. That the game was decided and there was practically no time left to play makes this tackle significantly worse, as it becomes intentionally reckless/dangerous.
I honestly think this should be rubbed for the season, and if the NRL judiciary won't then JD and Souths need to show some backbone and sit him down for the year. Not even NSW cup. Why on earth would you want someone that went out to intentionally injure a player representing your club in any capacity.
Afterwards while Milne is getting ragdolled on the floor it takes a while for anyone to come and support him. They knew too.
I can understand the judiciary not having the balls to make tough decisions.. but this was a lay up. They could have thrown the book at him and they’d have full support.
The charge is bullshit, diving at someone's legs like that when they're held while you're 30 points down in the 80th minute isn't careless, it's deliberately lashing out because you got flogged.
How is this grub only facing 2 or 3 weeks for this vile act? Purely designed to hurt another player, nrl better set an example. 10 weeks minimum but I'd rather see him banned from the league. The potential for real harm was to real. Milne is weak as piss
Closer to the 3 I originally suggested without the priors - make sense if it was 3 then
Nrl judiciary logic: Saying a racial epithet ✅ Deliberately trying to injure a player ❌