Thursday, January 20, 2011

Justice (of sorts)

Posted by febry on 10:00 AM

Welcome news last week that Maidstone RFC have been docked 50 points at an RFU hearing in the wake of the Clarence Harding eye-gouging incident.

Although the club were also fined a fairly paltry £2,000, the points deduction - which means that Maidstone now  face certain relegation from London 2 South East  - is at least a statement of intent that gouging will not be tolerated.

Some might say that punishing the club for the actions of one unidentified player is somehwat draconian.

I think not. Maidstone had their chance to identify the guilty party and chose not to. End of story.

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