Bullets Vs Hawks
Jervis - unruly physical intimidation
Conger - unruly vocal intimidation

Outcome guess
Jervis - fine
Carrera - fine

ZING!

Shouldn't we know the findings by now?

Any minute... probably hour now I'd imagine

I hope nothing comes out of it.

I think it adds to the marketability of the league. The league will definitely use the footage to promote future match ups.

A light fine and a slap on the wrist is all that is needed.

Cooke Jr's reaction to it all was the best.

Carrera maybe emotional crazy, but DC has that stare like he's super cray cray.

Carrara suspended for one game for an incident the refs didn't even assess a foul on him - after reviewing the incident several times?!?! Spare me

Carrara suspended for one game for an incident the refs didn't even assess a foul on him - after reviewing the incident several times?!?! Spare me

Michael Carrera - Cairns

Unreasonable contact with the face. Intentional / Medium impact / High = 2 games suspension down to 1 game if accepts early plea
For incident immediately preceding the melee in the 4th Period.
Engaging in a melee / brawl = $500 fine down to $375 if accepts early plea
Jarrad Weeks – Cairns

Engaging in a melee / brawl = $500 fine down to $375 if accepts an early plea
Nnanna Egwu - Cairns

Engaging in melee / brawl = $500 fine down to $375 if accepts an early plea
JP Tokoto – Perth

Unduly Rough Play. Careless / Low impact / High = $750 fine down to $500 if accepts an early plea
Engaging in melee/brawl = $500 fine down to $375 if accepts an early plea


This really begs the question how the supposed two best referees in the league called a common foul on Cooke jr and an unsportsmanlike on Tokoto....

I guess the Wildcats were favoured right LV

Wildcats V Cairns

Carrera

Unreasonable contact with the face. Intentional/medium impact/high = 2 games suspension down to 1 if accepts early plea - for incident immediately preceding the melee in the 4th period!

Everyone else gets monetary fines for engaging in melee/unduly rough play.

Snooch, I think that demonstrates that the referees messed up not the other way round.

Pretty sure a child could have worked out Carrera was to blame.

This sucks.
Wish they could have just got it right on the day. Suspension should not have been necessary IMO.

Yep, crazy disparity between what the refs called after reviewing footage vs what the tribunal ruled...

All monies raised goes to the League's Salary Equalisation Subsidy Scheme Fund which is current sitting at zero balance.

Isn't the rule an auto USF for anyone being the second one in to discourage this exact situation?

How does Carrera not get a foul yet get suspended ? I've looked at the replay a number of times and am hard pressed to see Carrera make contact, clearly by Cooke's lick the lips reaction he did but gee whiz 2 games and no foul?

Agree with J, The referees messed up by not calling any fouls on Cairns players.

All three should be stood down for a few weeks for their poor handling of the situation.

Carrera should really be forced to serve that suspension when Cairns next play Perth.

Dome rat raising and or throwing it is worthy of a usf alone, contact is not required. At least last time I did a ref course refresh

when did I say it wasn't?

How do the umpires with video replay come to their decision but the tribunal come to this.

What a joke

To be clear I am confused how someone who didn't get penalised with a foul has ended up getting suspended for 2 games. I never questioned what a USF was.

So Kickert and Buford got unsportsmanlike fouls but their names didn't come up at the tribunal.... what a surprise.
The refs watched those replays for 15 minutes. I’m not usually one for ref bashing, but that’s incredibly incompintent.

Anon two of the supposed best referees failed to apply the rules of the game. There is no excuse for how wrong they got it.

Christ alive, what is with the spelling in this thread?

Quite ironic that I spelt incompetent incorrectly

There's no way a player should be suspended for that. It's farcical. An usf at the very most - 2 of the most experienced refs in the country thought it was nothing!

No penalty on Weeks? He came charging in and tackled Tokoto.

spelling aside, I'm really disappointed in the lack of scorching hot takes on this thread.

League has a big problem with these decisions on the Taipans v Wildcats game.
The League's 2 top refs Vaughan Mayberry & Michael Alyen ( both full time professionals) made decisions after reviewing footage that the Review panel has now deemed as incorrect. This would now seem to put both ref in a situation where the panel has declared a lack of confidence in the refs, and has declared them incompetent. They should be considering their position, look to tendering their resignation. If they do not resign, what penalties will the league impose on them for their sub-standard display. Fines? Suspensions? (A serious talking too).
If i was Cairns in this situation, i would appeal the finding and call both Mayberry & Alyen as witnesses. This would make the league either back the tribunal decision and sack Mayberry and Alyen, or realise they look like idiots and clear the Taipans Players.

That the Tribunal may add penalties to reinforce Referees' on-the-spot decisions I can understand.
But to effectively post-penalise a team, as with the Taipans decision, contrary to the adjudicating Referee assessment, makes no sense whatsoever.
It totally traduces the time-honoured independence and absoluteness of refereeing decisions, and imposes an arbitrary ex-officio process between supporters, players, and referees.
This is League-damaging move that ought be widely condemned.
If you smugly imagine your team has escaped unscathed, you're bloody wrong, pure and simple.

Another thing to come out of this "incident" is that at least the Cairns Players had each others back, Three of them rushed in to back each other, poor old JP Tokoto looks like he was left on his Pat Malone, maybe the Cats players only talk the talk, and let the refs do the walk.

Every sports league reviews video and suspends players according to the rules irrespective of the call made in the game. AFL, NRL etc do it all the time, often when a free kick was not called during the game. Your outrage is misguided and lacking in logic.

"Time honoured" what cliche are you living in? NBA announces publicly if the refs made the wrong call in the last 2 mins, just finding they made not one but two mistakes that cost OKC a game.

The issue here is that our two full time referees looked at replays and royally fu#$*d up the interpretation of the rules. As stated above raising an elbow alone is worthy of an USF.

Post penalise? they won the game, there are consequences for breaking rules, this is one of them.

"League damaging move", no that was only suspending josh childress for one game for a flying elbow as well as the collection of jaw breaking non penalties that happened that year.

Prof leagues do not like fighting, they will penalise it heavily to discourage it.
Frankly I can not understand why you would start shit when you are up 22 against the defending champs with 6 mins to go, you absolutely pulled there pants down then you pull this stunt, why?

Even Boti can acknowledge the refs blew it, and he really doesn't like the wildcats "The GRP did seem to reflect the situation in Cairns more accurately than the officials caught up in the heat of the moment,"

Aylen really hates the Wildcats, always have always will. Shame that Mayberry didn't want to upset the apple cart (Aylen) but instantly agreeing to what Aylen wanted after watching the video call.

Carrera has been given 2 weeks for that incident.
Lets hope all players appeal the verdicts to embarrass the NBL into making a decision.

And they call this comp HARDBALL. geez

I think everyone should be fired for making a decision that had no impact on the final result of the game........

Daniel Kickert enjoying a couple of glasses of WHINE on Twitter about these sanctions.

It was only 2 years ago you could break a mans jaw in the NBL without penalty.

Hope that means they can re-visit Jervis role in it all and get it right. He was the "angry man" in that altercation, just like Carrera was in the Cairns/Perth one.

So the next United game with a bit of push and shove will result in fines? Like Hell!!

Hahahahahahaha.
Hahahhaahahahahahahaaaaahahahaaha.

This season just gets better and better.