It's pretty unclear - on the one hand a grade D challenge equates to 12 points. The article goes on to say:
"As a result, 12 points have been added to England's disciplinary record.
Including the penalty points accrued for this charge, the Keighley man's total penalty points acquired for this incident stand at 18, which are carried over from the previous disciplinary system."That doesn't make any sense. I'm assuming they're adding the 12 points onto whatever he'd accrued already? So this new system can't be "new" can it? They've already been counting points for previous offences. When was the point that they started counting?
So if England is on 18 points that's a three match ban. Does he remain on 18 once the ban is served? So if he commits a grade B offence he gets another 3 match ban and a fine as he'll be up to 21 points? Another grade B after that and it's a 4 match ban? Seems a bit OTT. When are points anulled? The article states points are anulled 12 months after the offence. Does that remove points for that individual offence or all of them?
There are a lot of implications here. Some players could be spending more time on the sidelines than on the pitch for relatively minor offences due to committing one bad one in the past year.
God knows how many points George Taufua already has on his record.
