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Stumbled on an article about a lower-league Rugby player in Australia who copped a ban after being found to have deliberately injured a ref. The ban was set at X weeks, and I thought "that's hefty" ... and then the hammer dropped. It was X weeks excluding off-season. Turns out it's a 5-year ban...

Process has taken far too long, and through taking so long stinks of a fix (whatever that fix may be). Even if the authorities needed extra time to decide on the appropriate length & value of the penalty & fine, he should have been suspended immediately once the guilty plea went in and was...