I used to love the biff but now it has no place in rugby league and I support hard-line efforts to try to eliminate it from the game.
A lot has changed since I used to run around as a player and the game is constantly evolving. The efforts to clamp down on punching is further evidence of that.
Sin-binning players who lash out is the right approach. If they are banned for a couple of weeks for striking, it won't eradicate the problem but it will quickly be less prevalent in the NRL.
If anything, I think Eels prop Mitchell Allgood's two-week suspension for his dirty work against Manly was lenient. He should have been banned for longer because what he did was disgraceful and it's a blight on a game whose demographic is changing - roughly half of audiences these days are made up of women.
I support what officials are trying to do but what disappoints me is the fact they don't use the sin-bin more frequently for other offences like high or reckless tackles.