{"id":49025,"date":"2021-03-24T07:48:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T08:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=49025"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:57:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:57:44","slug":"fittler-not-impressed-by-nrls-kaufusi-dwz-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=49025","title":{"rendered":"Fittler not impressed by NRL's Kaufusi, DWZ bans"},"content":{"rendered":"

League legend Brad Fittler<\/a> has called on the NRL to come down harder on reckless acts after Felise Kaufusi<\/a> and Dallin Watene-Zelezniak were both handed two-match bans.<\/p>\n

Fittler is the latest to criticise the NRL after referees boss Jared Maxwell urged match officials to use send-offs and the sin bin to eradicate high shots.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>MORE: <\/strong>Gould and Gallen lock horns over Kaufusi blow<\/a><\/p>\n

The Blues Origin coach said that he would have been comfortable with Kaufusi being given his matching orders for his hit on Ryan Matterson<\/a> and called on the NRL to be tougher on such incidents moving forward.<\/p>\n

\"Felise<\/p>\n

"We're at a place with knowing more about our bodies and our brains, that careless and reckless things that happen in a game you need to come down harder on," he told 2GB's Wide World of Sports Radio. <\/p>\n

"(Kaufusi and Watene-Zelezniak) got two weeks and I just think that wasn't enough. It doesn't send a good enough message to say that if a player is in that position next time that it holds them back. <\/p>\n

"Four to six weeks might have been something better. All of a sudden your coach isn't backing you, saying that was stupid and you're going to cost the team. <\/p>\n

"We just need to change that directive and these two might be the incidents that send the change to the judiciary and the referees."<\/p>\n

\"Felise\u00a0Kaufusi\u00a0on\u00a0report\u00a0for\u00a0hit\u00a0on\u00a0Ryan\u00a0Matterson\"<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, Maxwell said referees should not feel reluctant to give players their marching orders when required.<\/p>\n

"I don't want to be seeking a weaker approach in relation to foul play," he said.<\/p>\n

"I wouldn't have been disappointed if they had taken the toughest approach. That's definitely an option and there for a referee to dismiss players.<\/p>\n

"We're not sending the message out that that can't happen."<\/p>\n

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League legend Brad Fittler has called on the NRL to come down harder on reckless acts after Felise Kaufusi and Dallin Watene-Zelezniak were both handed […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49027,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49025\/revisions\/49027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}