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The NRL harboured a secret fear when coming up with the penalties.
Part of the thinking behind the NRL’s light punishment was that the game needs to sell all the stars it can at the moment.
Latrell Mitchell emerged as something of a cult figure last year. Nobody is faster than the Fox, Josh Addo-Carr. Penrith’s Nathan Cleary will one day be more popular than both.
Not only did the game want all four on the field
to give the game solid star power to sell in this hour of need — it will certainly help the sell to Nine — an unspoken fear was the game does not know how many more players will break the rules over the season and did not want to create a precedent it could not recover from.
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ARLC chairman Peter V’landys declared the next player to breach social distancing rules won’t get off as lightly.
“The next one will be harsher,” V’landys said. “We’ve given them the benefit of the doubt in this instance. Out of every negative is a positive and the positive here is that every player is on notice.
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after acting NRL chief Andrew Abdo says
he isn’t concerned about punters feeling the game has gone soft, after stars Latrell Mitchell, Josh Addo-Carr and Cleary escaped suspension over serious social-distancing breaches.
New slimy head.... same FU to the fans