[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/my_club/harlequins/8044453.stmMassive fine for faking an injury[/url



Probably get moved to other sports, but I feel a discussion about if the RFL would have the gonads to do similar could be interesting?

Whereas the RFL should have fined Quinz RL?

Bonzer!

I think they did it accidentally on purpose personally...

More like a balls up.

How can he be banned for 12 months and the south african guy who tried to removed the lions players eyes get 12 weeks???

Eight weeks if we're being pedantic.

<pedant> The RFU didn't issue the penalty </pedant>

There was once rumours that it was going on in Super League a few seasons back, then they changed the rules.

What a ridiculous punishment for such a minor wrong doing.

If the RFU "had balls", they would have also banned the trainer and coach who were also complicit in the event!



Somehow the player administered his own blood capsule which, if the trainer was innocent, he must have carried with him throughout the game.



The RFL recognised this years ago and so removed the free blood subs, but increased interchanges from 8 to 12.

It's even more interesting when you look at the number of instances where a team getting caned in the scrums manages to get two props "injured" so they can switch to uncontested, and yet escapes without sanction.



I wouldn't be surprised to see this reduced massively on appeal for both the player and the club.

any chance someone can explain to me why this has occured, not watching rah rah i can't say i can see whats wrong here, i know as mr gilder has pointed out about specialist prop replacements but i can't see what they've been fined for here, had they run out of subs or something?