The NRL is set to dramatically simplify its judicial system next season by reducing the number of gradings but the jury is still out on plans to introduce a fine system as the players prepare to have a decisive say on whether punishment for minor offences takes a monetary form.
The Australian understands the committee set up to review the judicial system has come up with two potential alternatives to the existing format, both of which would involve a significant reduction in the number of gradings for offences.
Charges currently have five gradings but that may be reduced to three next season, a dramatic simplification of a convoluted system that came under heavy criticism this year.
The most intriguing change shapes as the potential introduction of a fine system for minor offences, a concept already used in the AFL and now under serious consideration in the NRL.