Second ly, I don't get how Soward was cited and Inglis wasn't. The replays are crystal clear - Inglis isn't fending off Soward, he has his right hand around his throat, strangling him "like a chicken" as coach Wayne Bennett would later say.

I simply cannot work out how any player - attacker or defender - has the right to wrap a hand around an opponent's neck. Doing that while a player is moving, as Soward was, is an action that could cause a player serious injury.

And yet Inglis walks away scot-free.

The thing I really don't get is the issue of the grading. The league's match review committee chairman Greg McCallum said it would have been greater than the grade one Soward got had he injured Inglis.

"There was contact with his (Soward's) leg to Inglis's face and obviously any injury or additional force could have led to a higher grading," McCallum said.

Now cast your mind back a few weeks to the third State of Origin, where Jonathan Thurston kicked David Williams in the face after he'd scored.

That broke Williams' cheekbone. So, by the match review chairman's own definition, Thurston's inflicting an injury should have seen him get a high grading.

Yet Thurston scored just a grade one - same as Soward. So the Dragons playmaker, whose leg barely brushed Inglis' face, gets the same penalty as Thurston, who kicked a player full-on in the face.

They're not even close to being the same offence.

If Thurston's was a grade one, then Soward's was a grade minus-10.