The NRL match review committee got the thumbs up from Canberra raiders coach Ricky Stuart for their sanction on Manly star Jake Trbojevic.
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The only problem is it meant they got it horribly wrong when it came to Raiders back Nick Cotric.
Cotric is currently serving a three-game ban for a grade three dangerous throw on St George Illawarra's Tim Lafai.
For a remarkably similar incident, Trbojevic was charged with a grade one throw on Sunday for his tackle on Melbourne fullback Jahrome Hughes.
That means The Sea Eagles forward is free to play if he takes the early guilty plea and will have 75 carryover points.
In contrast, the NRL threw the book at Cotric, who will be free to play after for the Raiders' home clash against the Sydney Roosters in a fortnight.
He'll still be on the sidelines for their trip to Auckland to play the New Zealand Warriors on Friday.
"Which one did they get wrong do you reckon?" Stuart replied when asked about Trbojevic's sanction.
"Did they get Nicky Cotric's wrong? Or did they get Jake's wrong?
"Personally for me I commend the match review committee because I reckon they got young Trbojevic's right. It was an accident. Exactly the same way Nick Cotric's was an accident.
"They got Nick Cotric's dreadfully wrong and they were both the same tackles."
Stuart said there needed to be common sense in regards to cracking down on incidents in a contact sport and that sometimes accidents happened.
He said Panthers five-eighth James Maloney's tackle on John Bateman was the perfect example.
Maloney accidentally got Bateman into an awkward position, akin to a crusher tackle, and it left Bateman clutching his neck afterwards.
He also took umbrage at Newcastle fullback Kalyn Ponga's send off the other night.
"We have a very high-speed game and we have such huge collisions, and there's going to be accidents," Stuart said.
"I'm so happy for the game we don't need to get the penalty there because it was a complete and pure accident.
"We're getting too many people put out of the game because of accidents on the footy field.
"We have to have common sense in regards to our interpretation towards a number of incidents.
"The send off of Ponga the other night was a disgrace. We don't need that in our game. It was an accident.
"When there's intent to hurt somebody ... they're the things that have got to be dealt with."
Stuart was concerned with the constant changing of interpretations, which was making consistency harder.
"We can't keep changing the interpretations of the game to keep pleasing everybody," he said.
"It's a tough, elite sport. There are going to be accidents, there's going to be high shots and there's going to be tough collision at certain times because of the speed and nature of the game.
"The game isn't that bad. We've got match review committees, we've got rule committees.
"They're not at the coal face ... if you get the right coaches to sit down and talk about a lot of these interpretations we'll all be on the same page."