While McGuire has now racked up four similar offences, Annesley reiterated that his past was not taken into account when the Match Review Committee was evaluating his latest transgression.
"I think in the McGuire case, what we have to be really careful of is disassociating the person committing the offence with the actual offence itself," Annesley said.
"Because the Match Review Committee don't look at the background of a player or the number of charges that he's had.
"All they look at is the offence and they try to be as consistent as possible in grading that offence as a standalone incident.
"If a player has a record, that catches up with him when the calculation's done. If he's got prior offences, that involves loadings and so forth.
"But it doesn't change the actual grading of the offence just because a player might have had previous offences."
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