Rugby Union player in Australia given 96-week ban for assaulting a referee

[sunburywhite]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/65620647

[Willham]

Wow, I'd love to see the incident in question, if it looked accidentally at the time, I wonder how old the player was too, nearly 5 years of their career gone, they don't have much career left unless their young.

Found an article with the video footage;

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/perth-rugby-player-hit-with-five-year-ban-for-physically-abusing-referee-20230517-p5d91f.html

Can see why it was imagined to be an accident but I think it's clear after a couple of watches it was intentional and he took the opportunity

[sunburywhite]

100% intentional

[HamsterWheel]

He must have a rubbish lawyer, he was trying to tackle the bloke with the ball and the ref got in the way!