Sam isn't happy about how the new changes were communicated (he found out in the press) and how they have retrospective action from last season. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/sa ... -confusion "“We’re playing a game in 24 hours and I don’t know what they’re going to do if they want to sanction one of my players because I just won’t accept it. What am I supposed to do? It’s tough, isn’t it? “We’re all playing the same rules but if they’re changing the system, it’s not been explained to us."

Sam isn't happy about how the new changes were communicated (he found out in the press) and how they have retrospective action from last season. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/sa ... -confusion "“We’re playing a game in 24 hours and I don’t know what they’re going to do if they want to sanction one of my players because I just won’t accept it. What am I supposed to do? It’s tough, isn’t it? “We’re all playing the same rules but if they’re changing the system, it’s not been explained to us."

And rightly so, can’t be bringing in a new system and counting last season’s disciplinary into it.

We only have to look at the fiasco last year when the Hull player was sent off for catching Ben Currie on the chops .Even Ben couldn't believe it. What with changes to disciplinary matters & rule changes in the game Rugby League is evolving away from the spectator & becoming increasingly hard to follow.

[quote="ninearches":1xvxa1p2]We only have to look at the fiasco last year when the Hull player was sent off for catching Ben Currie on the chops .Even Ben couldn't believe it. What with changes to disciplinary matters & rule changes in the game Rugby League is evolving away from the spectator & becoming increasingly hard to follow.[/quote:1xvxa1p2] Agreed - and it's all so easily avoidable, that's the thing. All it needed is for someone to have had the common sense to say "no, we can't give players disciplinary points based on last season, that's ludicrous, let's just start 2025 with a clean slate". Players who fell foul of the disciplinary in 2024 have already had their cases dealt with and have served their punishment, so by now including points based on those cases, you are effectively going to be punishing a player twice for the same incident. I'm not even sure that would stand up to a legal challenge, if anyone's got the guts to do it.

Look at the Vaughan sending off against Leigh for which he got a 4 match ban from a disciplinary panel that said he was guilty when half the viewing public thought there was no foul committed. Look how many times different players get different sanctions ,if any at all, for the same offence. Unless we get a disciplinary panel that can hand out punishments fairly & evenly how can we have any faith in this new system.