tigerpie wrote:I've been going on about this for years.
Penalise the action and consider the outcome (injury) when found guilty of the action.
Consider the Gaff/Brayshaw incident.
If gaff brushes his shoulder, with a clear punch then he might have got off.
Flushes him he gets 6 or whatever he got.
Penalising the action will stop it in its tracks.
Penalising the outcome is a mute point if, luckily, the action misses the target.
Throwing a punch, elbow, headbutt, ball grab, nipple cripple, whatever, is instantly penalised.
Having been involved in tribunal processes, including training tribunal commissioners a few years ago this is always how the tribunals were run.
Judge the intent and the action first and then apply a grading to penalty pending the severity.
Thats why you used to hear people getting reported for 'attempting to strike'. the intent and action were clear, the outcome was minimal due to luck or the skill of the person trying to strike! still needs to be penalised for taking a deliberate swing though.
I'm not sure when this pivoted to placing so much weight on the end result and not so much on the action that lead to it.