Rugby league’s greatest ever referee Bill Harrigan wants the Fifita brothers, if found guilty, to be banned from the game for a year after an ugly incident at an A-Grade game in Penrith where the Fifitas allegedly attacked an official.

“It should be a long time out of the game,” Harrigan said on Triple M NRL.

“Because that’s what they are saying about anyone out there approaching referees, and trying to retain young referees over the abuse they all cop.

“To cop it from a first grader to say ‘I’ll smash you’ or something similar if that is what he has said.

“To me it has to be rubbed out to set an example, rubbed out for 12 months.”