I went to see Leeds Knights last week, I know nothing about Ice Hockey apart from you need to score. Near the end there was a fight , the announcer said that both players were sent off for five minutes and will be banned for the next game. I thought that was disciplinary at its quickest, our panels and appeals could learn a lot from that.

[quote="Rhino at work":1h91tzrv]Nerd alert... You can work out from the RFL disciplinary record that our points b/f were accumulated and so drop out after 12 months as follows: Lisone - All 5 points 22nd February (the ridiculous 3 match ban he got at Hull KR before things settled down a bit) Ackers - 1 point 25th July Bentley - 1 point 2nd March Connor - 1 point 16th March Cam Smith - 1 point 28th March and 1 point 3rd August[/quote:1h91tzrv] Can someone explain how these carry forwards have been arrived at. I get the conversion of offence severity into points that accumulate during the season. But I don’t follow the application of this to 2024 offences. If a player offended last year surely they’ll have served a ban then and those offences extinguished. Or is it that all offences last season, even though they served a ban for them, are carried forward to this year.

Seems that a decision has been made that offences get annulled after a year I think. But given the woeful level of reporting of this and the byzantine complexity of it all who knows?

[quote="GeordieRhino":1id9myeg]Can someone explain how these carry forwards have been arrived at. I get the conversion of offence severity into points that accumulate during the season. But I don’t follow the application of this to 2024 offences. If a player offended last year surely they’ll have served a ban then and those offences extinguished. Or is it that all offences last season, even though they served a ban for them, are carried forward to this year.[/quote:1id9myeg] Last year's gradings of offence are reduced by one level so for example Lisone's Grade D becomes Grade C hence he starts on 5 points. We can argue about the fairness of it all (double jeopardy / new NRL imports being exempt) but clearly the intent is that they want to start 2025 as if the system had always been in place. I guess the "it's the same for everyone" attitude has been applied. As luck would have it we have done OK by having 3 new overseas players plus Holroyd and Gannon coming back from long lay offs.

[quote="Bullseye":xocblprn]Seems that a decision has been made that offences get annulled after a year I think. But given the woeful level of reporting of this and the byzantine complexity of it all who knows?[/quote:xocblprn] That's what is being reported by journalists but I haven't found any detail about the practicalities of it. Could be key for us regarding Lisone - he got his 5 points on 22nd February 2024 and we play round 2 this year on 22nd February 2025 so I would hope they will have disappeared by then but who knows?