marshman wrote:
I'm guessing you are an official within the RFL then The Chin's Back, since you have failed to see what the cas club have been doing BEFORE, during and after the incident. Take the time to go to the Tigers website and read the reasons why the Cas club feels hard done by with the severity of the fine. The RFL have given the reason that the Cas club failed to act upon the chants when according to the version Cas have written in their statement, i can't see much else they could have done apart from randomly throw a handgrenade in the direction of the chanting. After the Catalans incident last year, the club stepped up their efforts and then this incident gets them an astonishing £40k fine even though the Cas club feel they are doing, and did all they could.
They didn't get a £40k fine, they got a £20k fine.
You can argue all you like about the £20k fine, and in all honesty it was very harsh in relation to similar treatment of football sides.
But you can't argue about the other £20k. There is no argument to be had. You accepted the suspended fine previously, and you have committed an offence again. You can't go back and say "well actually sir we thought you would never enforce it".