Melbourne forward Jeff Lima has been cleared of a crusher tackle on Cronulla's Matt Wright at the weekend but his team-mate Adam Blair and Gold Coast's Anthony Laffranchi both face bans after being charged with dangerous throws.
Lima was placed on report by referees Ben Cummins and Brett Suttor on Saturday night at Olympic Park after a tackle on Wright in the 24th minute left Wright on his back for several minutes being assessed for a neck or spinal injury.
Wright eventually walked off but took no further part in the game while Lima, who asked 'what's a crusher' when told he was on report, has not been charged for what Storm coach Craig Bellamy and his Sharks counterpart Ricky Stuart both dismissed as an accident.
"He (Lima) got him (Wright) in a bad position but then basically he let go straight away," Bellamy said. "I just thought it was a bit of a joke putting it on report, to be quite honest. It was one of those things that happened in a game that's an accident."
"I know because it's Jeff he's probably going to cop it, that's where it all started, this crusher crap. But he didn't hold him there for any length of time, he knew the position he was in and he let go so I'm with Rick (Stuart)."
Meanwhile Titans second-rower Laffranchi's grade-one charge for his lifting tackle early in Friday night's win over the Broncos at Skilled Park would normally not warrant a suspension with an early guilty plea.
But with two previous offences adding a 75 percent loading to the charge his demerit points balloon to 212 plus five more that are carried over from his most recent charge.
That means that if Laffranchi unsuccessfully contests at the judiciary on Wednesday night he will be slapped with a two-match ban that will rule him out of this week's home derby against the Cowboys and the Round 22 trip to Auckland to face the Warriors.
However, Laffranchi's points would reduce from 217 to 163 and he would only miss the game against North Queensland if he accepts the penalty, with Blair facing a similar fate on the same charge.
Blair was cited for a 47th-minute tackle and like Laffranchi cannot reduce his penalty to a reprimand, meaning he may elect to head to the judiciary in an effort to be available for Friday's huge clash with the Dragons.
In other NRL news, Gold Coast youngster Travis Drought has been provisionally suspended after an 'A' sample returned a positive result for the banned substance nandrolone, a steroid-based drug derived from testosterone.
Drought's 'B' sample has not yet been tested and he will be given the opportunity to engage legal representation if he chooses to have the second sample analysed, although he can also opt not to have it looked at.
If he does choose to have the 'B' sample analysed and it also returns a positive result Drought will be sent to the NRL drugs tribunal where he would face a ban of up to two years.