If there was ever a case for sending off sufficient that was it. Single punch, provoked by the other players actions.
Fair enough - elima was trying to get MM off him so he could play the ball - but he shouldn't have been using his elbow which was dangerously close to smacking MM in the face.
If Sam had been doing what elima did there would be a 20 page thread slagging him off - not a debate as to whether the guy who punched him one deserved a ban...............