Ezra Mam accepts nine-game ban, $120000 in fines

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Looks like Mam is getting 9 weeks from the NRL...lucky no one was hurt...oh wait.

With the Broncos getting the rails run from the legal system and the NRL it seems like they're a lock for a top-four spot.
 
Seano said:
Looks like Mam is getting 9 weeks from the NRL...lucky no one was hurt...oh wait.

With the Broncos getting the rails run from the legal system and the NRL it seems like they're a lock for a top-four spot.
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Should have been suspended for the season...
 
A whole season suspension would be drastically out of step with other punishments given by the NRL. The 9 weeks is already more than twice the sanction Trindall got for a lighter version of pretty much the exact same thing.

He’s shown contrition, enrolled in rehab, is being fined well over $100,000 & is copping a hefty suspension. It’s been addressed now for mine & I don’t see why we should get swept up in the outrage campaign still being driven by the definitely cleanskin, never done anything wrong in their lives, “journalists” at Fox/News Ltd.
 
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Milford got 11 weeks for throwing a bin at a car and Spencer Leinu got 8 weeks for saying monkey.

I can understand people being confused that driving under the influence while unlicensed and fracturing the hip of child gets a similar punishment.
 
… and Trindall got 4 weeks for driving unlicensed under the influence.

And, god damn dude, “saying monkey” doing a lot of work in that sentence. God damn.
 
Trindall didn't hurt anyone and I don't think Leinu was being malicious. And even if he was, hurting someone's feelings isn't equivalent to injuring a child. I guess Milford throwing a bin was a heinous crime too.
 
No, the Milford one is the most absurd of the lot. They get it wrong often, I never said they’re always right. But the punishment wasn’t 11 weeks, it was a 4 week suspension, they just didn’t factor in the time under the no fault stand down, which they should have.

On the Leniu one, I think we may be too far apart for there to be a productive discussion, but suffice it to say I disagree with your read on it, I think the punishment was fair, and you can’t just ignore that Mam was fined over $120,000 & Leniu fined $0 and then say “well Mam’s punishment was barely bigger because it was only one more week”. And yes, Trindall didn’t hit anyone… so it’s less than half as many weeks, and no massive fine. Am I missing something?

People demanded a severe punishment. I thought he should get a severe punishment: He’s been given a severe punishment and I don’t understand how anyone could possibly say otherwise. The media hacks are still going on about it because he’s a high profile player at the biggest club & that means easy engagement & lots of clicks. Him being an Indigenous player who’s stood up for himself re: racist **** helps with that as well because then there’s automatically a big audience of people who want him put in his place.
 
Have just moved this into its own thread.

Find it hard to care what happens with these bans and fines, there's so many variables in each one. There will never be consistency. Unless it affects a Knights player then I think bans jumped the shark for me when Todd Carney got lifetime for some weirdo videoing him peeing in his mouth in the toilet lol.
 
HarVeeGee13 said:
… and Trindall got 4 weeks for driving unlicensed under the influence.
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The term the judge used, in Ezra's case, I believe, was 'a cocktail of cocaine'.

He's then driven unlicensed, has crossed onto the wrong side of the road, caused a head-on collision with an innocent group, resulting in a broken hip to a young girl.

So yes, he should cop more than Trindall.
 
Again: I mention Trindall got 4 weeks specifically because it’s the most comparable thing to have happened, and Mam got a much bigger punishment. I didn’t deny Mam’s incident was worse. Whether Mam’s punishment is exactly commensurate with how much worse can be debated, but what I was specifically arguing against is the idea that Mam wasn’t harshly punished. He was. I would go as far as to say he was made an example of. Even for someone on a footy player’s wicket, $120K isn’t just chump change.

I’ve seen it suggested that a whole season ban is obviously appropriate here, not just in the thread above, but in a bunch of places, and my question there is “based on what”? What precedent is there for that? Are you saying Trindall should have gotten 10 weeks instead? 12?
 
For me when I say ban him for the season it's because he recklessly endangered lives and I would of been all for him being fined less by the club/nrl. His punishment is severe In comparison to some others in the game and I'm okay with that. The Nrl just loves to keep us on our toes with these kind of things
 
Can’t understand why he wasn’t criminally charged for what he did, broke a few laws and caused injury.
If it was me, non playing sports star, normal everyday bloke, and I did what he did would I not be charged.
Licence suspended!!!!!!! excuse me he didn’t have a licence to suspend
Crime is rife because punishment is weak
 
Frank McWilliams said:
So what was the outcome, slap on the wrist, good behaviour bond, no D/licence for extended period or a sentence.
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After a lengthy monologue, where the judge berated him as being 'stupid' for endangering the life of himself and others, and declaring that Ezra 'has to learn from this', he handed down a sentence of a 6-month licence suspension (which incidentally will be Ezra's fourth licence suspension in 3 years) and an $850 fine, with no conviction recorded.
 
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