George Burgess rubbed out for nine NRL games over eye gouge

George Burgess will miss the rest of the NRL regular season after being handed a nine-game ban for his eye gouge last Thursday night.Burgess says he will play more cautiously from now on, and he did not mean to eye gouge Robbie FarahThe three-man panel of Bob Lindner, Mal Cochrane and Dallas Johnson took 30 minutes to give their verdict in a hearing that lasted almost two hours.

"I've been pretty upset. My career is probably in the balance. What I've done looks pretty disgraceful on the footage there. It's a shame really," Burgess said.However he rejected any accusation that the play was deliberate, insisting he was completely unaware of where his fingers were."My hands ended up in a dodgy place. I wasn't thinking about it at the time. I was sort of in autopilot. I'm angry with myself about the situation," Burgess said.

He later said:"Things are going a million miles an hour. I swear on my kids' lives I didn't know I had my hands in his eyes."

Good

What a coincidence! I rubbed out nine for George Burgess 💦

If he blinded that player by eye gouge- what would u think

Second time he’s done it and he’s “an ornament to the club” 😂 and this won’t “define his career”. Yep, it will, he’s the “eye gouger”.

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We know.

Nowhere Near Long Enough. NRL

Should be rubbed out for the rest of his career

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