Penalty box the first player sent to it. Use of a sin bin was introduced to rugby union in 2001. In the National Rugby League, there is no "physical" sin bin. Players must serve their punishment in the dressing room; remaining on the sideline or in the stands is not permitted. However, in the European Super League and other UK based competitions, a player sent to the sin bin will usually sit on the bench and will wear a 'bib'; however, they do have the option of going back into the dressing room if they please. In rugby union, a sin-binned or
Bench-clearing brawl 1995, the National Basketball Association changed the penalty for leaving the bench to participate in a brawl from a $500 fine to an automatic one-game suspension. In 2010, the Northern Territory Football League in Australia ruled that any player found to have left the interchange bench to participate in a melee would be ejected from that match; they would also have their melee fine increased by 25% and receive an automatic one-game suspension. Bench-clearing brawls do not occur very often in gridiron football. All levels of the game penalize any "substitute who leaves the team box during a fight" (as