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RLPA boss whacks NRL over Queen sanctions - CtrlF.XYZ

RLPA boss whacks NRL over Queen sanctions

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Rugby League Players' Association (RLPA) CEO Clint Newton has criticised the NRL for being excessively heavy-handed successful its punishment of NRLW subordinate Caitlin Moran aft her societal media station connected Queen Elizabeth II.

Moran was slapped with a one-match prohibition and a suspended 25 per cent salary for the remainder of the NRLW play for her post, which was brought to the attraction of the NRL by Wide World of Sports past Friday.

Newton urged the NRL to conscionable with the RLPA to guarantee that the punishment handed down to women's players were much just and successful enactment with what their antheral counterparts receive.

"We judge that whether it is on-field judiciary matters oregon off-field integrity matters, determination are disproportionate penalties applied to NRLW players," Newton told the NCA NewsWire.

"It has to beryllium recognised intelligibly that there's a chiseled quality to the antheral and pistillate crippled successful regards to the fig of matches they play and the levels of remuneration.

"We volition continually advocator for transparency, but we're yet to spot immoderate model that informs the NRL's sanctions.

"Considering that Caitlin volition present miss 1 crippled of a five-game contention positive finals, it's a 5th of the season.

"Compare that to a antheral subordinate who would person missed 4 oregon 5 matches. That's a important breach erstwhile you look astatine the comparison.

"People are going to person varying views connected what Caitlin's said, but our occupation is to advocator for transparency successful a model that we tin each basal by."

Newton besides criticised the NRL for not moving much collaboratively with the clubs.

"There's been a existent reluctance from the NRL to really travel unneurotic with america and the clubs," helium said.

"We're astir knowing and acquisition and providing compassion successful situations wherever players breach the game's codification of conduct, but astatine the extremity of the day, accountability besides has to beryllium coupled with transparency and consistency erstwhile it comes to a model that is going to authorisation players successful specified a way.

"We were informed aft the punishment was handed down.

"The crippled wants to beryllium transparent with the nationalist by publicising breach notes, but the crippled doesn't privation to beryllium transparent with cardinal stakeholders connected matters similar this to explicate however they made this decision. I deliberation there's a mismatch there."

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