Parkers one match suspension a few years ago is still one that irritates me. It’s being used as a means of saying he doesn’t have a clean record for this incident but it was imo at least completely unjustified.
6 weeks seems extreme in this case to me. I understand the game has moved on, but I was reminded of Justin Koschitzke having a cracked skull via a relatively minor contact which was play on and no suspensions (from memory at least) Makes such a huge difference to the impact with the player unprepared in any way.
Appreciate there were other options aside from blocking but there’s no way to anticipate the level of damage with the nature of the block. I saw the bump Callum Brown put on McCartin as much more sinister and had the potential to be an extreme outcome (it still does) for McCartin long term.
Hopefully for Luke’s sake it gets reduced to 3-4 weeks which imo is still a lengthy time out of the game.
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