Phil Rothfield: NRL to consider judiciary changes to stop stars missing Grand Finals THE NRL will consider changing judiciary rules to prevent players from missing a Grand Final for one simple mistake. Manly forward Glenn Stewart is anxiously awaiting a verdict from the NRL match-review committee following his high tackle on Sam Burgess in Friday night's grand final qualifier. A number of clubs want the system reviewed with an outcome that would allow players, for more minor incidents, to serve their suspensions next year. Not in the trials, but in early-round premiership games. Only serious incidents with a grading of more than 300 points would rub a player out of a grand final. "It's something we'd be happy to look at and put out there for discussion," said the NRL's head of football Todd Greenberg on Saturday. Glenn Stewart runs the ball against Souths. We need to be careful, though, because you don't want players thinking they can get away with foul play in a preliminary final, knowing they won't miss a grand final. At the same time, no-one wants to see a player rubbed out of a grand final for an innocuous tackle. We've had no discussions about it yet, but it's worth talking about and at least considering. Major incidents, like spear tackles and blatant head highs that cause serious injury, would still see players suspended from grand finals. But surely no player should ever miss a grand final for something as harmless as Stewart's high-tackle on Burgess early in the game on Friday night. Even Burgess agrees with that, saying, "I'd hate for him to miss a grand final." Publicly, Stewart stressed after the game he wasn't overly concerned about being put on report for the incident. "It was probably just a little bit lazy," he said. The review of judiciary rules will also include the State of Origin series. Greenberg says the Origin suspensions have been raised by Newcastle Knights super coach Wayne Bennett. "Wayne was of the opinion that if you do something wrong in Origin, you should miss an Origin match, not a club game," Greenberg said. Again, it's something worth considering. But what if a player did something serious in game three, caused a bad injury, but was then allowed to run out for his club on the weekend. It probably wouldn't be a good look. The changes to the judiciary has the support of former referees boss Bill Harrigan, who spoke about it after Manly's victory on Friday night.