The NRL have ignored the seriousness of Josh McGuire's grubby eye-gouge on Cameron Munster on Friday night with the issuing of a fine, failing to serve justice for a potential career-ending low act.
That's the opinion of infuriated journalist Paul Kent who has torn the organisation to pieces for their weak sanctioning of the much-maligned Cowboys lock.
McGuire escaped suspension and copped just a $3350 fine for contrary conduct despite damning footage showing his fingers making contact with Munster's face .
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Instead, Kent believed the NRL should have thrown the book at McGuire and rubbed him out for three months.
“You can end someone’s career by detaching the retina, it happens in boxing all the time,” Kent told Triple M .
‘’And yet we get this weak-kneed NRL management that give a grade one charge to it.
‘’There is all the evidence in the world you want to say to this bloke ‘piss off out of the game for 12 weeks’.
‘’It’s an eye-gouge that can potentially end his career.''
The incident marks his fourth charge in the past year, including one for an ugly hair pull on Adam Elliott, a stomping offence on another rep teammate in Tim Glasby and another incident that saw him make contact with a referee.
However, all charges resulted in a fine.
Using McGuire's lengthy rap sheet to support his argument, Kent laid into Paul Green for suggesting the act was ''not in his nature'' , while placing some blame on Munster for retracting his complaint.
Play was stopped as referee Grant Atkins asked Munster whether he would like to make a formal complaint, however the Storm five-eighth kept his mouth shut to save his mate.
“I won’t go there,” Munster told Channel Nine after the game.
“Me and Moose have a connection there. He did get me but I wasn’t going to put it on report.”
Kent was not impressed.
‘’For the game to take the con job of Paul Green saying it’s not in his nature, for Cameron Munster to obey the rule that what happens on the field stays on the field…to then sit there and pretend it hasn’t happened and give him a grade one charge that carries a fine and not even a suspension – it’s disgraceful,'' he said.
‘’If Cameron Munster, who is the shining light in our game, who is the big name coming forward who is going to be at the top of his game for next seven to nine years – what if he had been rubbed out because of this knucklehead in Townsville eye gouges him and affects his vision and can no longer play?’’
