Denis Denuto style stuff. What an absolute embarrassment.

We decide to challenge a ruling that put almost every category at the lowest grade, with almost the entire thing arguable as to whether there was sufficient force, intent or impact for it to be worth anything more than a freekick, and our gameplan is to validate that ruling by agreeing with it, then pulling out a farcical argument involving: Claiming that Brennan missing would be bad for the growth of the game (wtf?), then pulling out a completely irrelevant and frankly pathetic point that hadn't we suffered enough because the captain of a different side missed a premiership two years ago (despite that player probably being the player most associated with that premiership and only missing because he was injured, not rubbed out for some careless tackle).

That tribunal would have been itching to let her off:
-seriously she is a poster girl of the competition; good looking, a star and super polished in the media)
-the tackle was a little careless but hardly malicious, and honestly not much worse than about 10 other tackles from the same game
-missing a GF for a reprimand is bullshit

We had so many easy ways to play this case in our favour and instead we presented an argument that boiled down to "the good bloke defence". She never stood a chance with that argument.

What a joke.