Cockerill resentenced

[fleabane]

http://www.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/story ... a=chromium

[tigerburnie]

Odds:-

Complete let off...............odds against
Move start date to include pre-season.....pretty good
Increase the ban length..................naaaaaah.

[Alatoruk]

I would take anyone's money who wants to bet for a complete let off. As he isn't contesting the verdict !!!!!!

[jonlin]

Will Mr Pierepoint be available at dawn on Tuesday morning.

[LE18]

Sadly we abolished hanging some years ago, many say it should be repealed, but not for rugby crimes.

[tigerburnie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/23436116

Not worried at all.

[jgriffin]

Sadly we abolished hanging some years ago, many say it should be repealed, but not for rugby crimes.

Wrong forum.

[Knightonian]

Martin Crowson just tweeted 9 match ban to continue but to include pre-season friendlies

https://mobile.twitter.com/martin_crowson

[WhitecapTiger]

Martin Crowson just tweeted 9 match ban to continue but to include pre-season friendlies

https://mobile.twitter.com/martin_crowson

To include 2 of the 3 pre-season friendlies......Ulster & Jersey, doesn't include the Montpellier friendly because, apparently, the RFU didn't think that was the right thing to do

Bizarre, IMO, that they seem to acknowledge a need to right a wrong but still have their little dig....

[tigerben]

Martin Crowson just tweeted 9 match ban to continue but to include pre-season friendlies

https://mobile.twitter.com/martin_crowson

To include 2 of the 3 pre-season friendlies......Ulster & Jersey, doesn't include the Montpellier friendly because, apparently, the RFU didn't think that was the right thing to do

Bizarre, IMO, that they seem to acknowledge a need to right a wrong but still have their little dig....

Presumably it's because we have an 'empty' weekend between Montpellier (Fri Aug 9th) and Jersey (Sat Aug 24th).
Admittedly they could have included the Montpellier game and changed it to a 9 game ban rather than a 9 week ban. (This is one of the (few) occasions were I feel football is better than rugby - bans by match, rather than weeks).

[Bowden Tiger]

One has to ask if the RFU Discipline Panal has been taken over by the same 'Yellow Shirted Buffoons', that seem to officiate at most Tigers matches.
Are these people supported by Rugby/Legal experts who should avoid these almost comical outcomes?

[GETHIN EXILE]

even this new sentence is out of order. normal punishments in rugby are for a number of weeks not matches. the sentence should also start from the date of the hearing which by my calculation would mean the ban ending on the 30th of September. Oh silly me this would mean Cockers coming back for the game against you know who !!

[jonlin]

After all these years these "old farts" are still not fit for purpose.

[daktari]

The RFU are like those people you see in the street dressed in badly fitting clothes and think "Jezz, do you not own a mirror", totally oblivious to how others see them.

This is clearly to fit the RFU'S agenda and nothing to do with fair justice. If you are going to ban him, than ban him for either a period of time or matches, don't manipulate it to suit yourselves.If they ban someone then the start of the ban and criteria should be the same for everyone, regardless of what they were found guilty of. The sanctions should be applied fairly, Muppets the lot of them!

[The Ightham Tiger]

[quote="tigerben] To include 2 of the 3 pre-season friendlies......Ulster & Jersey, doesn't include the Montpellier friendly because, apparently, the RFU didn't think that was the right thing to do

Bizarre, IMO, that they seem to acknowledge a need to right a wrong but still have their little dig....[/quote]

Presumably it's because we have an 'empty' weekend between Montpellier (Fri Aug 9th) and Jersey (Sat Aug 24th).
Admittedly they could have included the Montpellier game and changed it to a 9 game ban rather than a 9 week ban. (This is one of the (few) occasions were I feel football is better than rugby - bans by match, rather than weeks).[/quote]

Fully agree. Further evidence that the RFU and their appellant body make it up as they go along. If they wanted to take him out of the equation up to a particular match, then the ban system should run for a number of matches. Certainly an instance (a solitary instance?) where football is clearer.