Wade Graham faced the judiciary on Wednesday night.

As his Blues’ teammates kicked back and relaxed in camp at Coffs Harbour, Graham was forced to fly back to Sydney where he was found guilty of a careless high tackle on North Queensland and Maroons’ star Johnathan Thurston.

Graham will now be denied the chance to run out for NSW next Wednesday against Thurston and the Maroons - but was just as quick to point out he would do everything to make himself available for game three.

“Obviously I’m disappointed to miss out on the game, and there are not really words to describe how disappointing it is,’’ Graham said.

Graham was banned for one match for his high tackle on Thurston.Source:FOX SPORTS

“I thought we went in there and put forward a good argument.

“I thought it was a fair case.

“Unfortunately the decision did not go my way.

“It’s important for me now to move on and head back to Cronulla, play good football and hopefully have my name in the ring again for game three.’’

Graham landed in hot water for his high shot on Thurston during the 64th minute of Cronulla’s 13-10 victory over the Cowboys on Monday night. Straight after that game Graham achieved a boyhood dream of being picked for the Blues.

Graham was flanked by a healthy entourage at Rugby League Central, including NSWRL boss Dave Trodden and Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan.

Flanagan later said it was time for the game to review the points system when it came to Origins and grand finals.

Plenty of NSW and Queensland fans will agree.

Graham leaving the judiciary on Wednesday night.Source:News Corp Australia

“This highlights the anomalies in our game, to miss an Origin with 100 points,’’ Flanagan said.

“We need to think about it. We’ve brought it up at coaches’ meetings, and we need to bring it up again. I’m not upset with tonight’s process, it’s just disappointing he’ll miss Origin.’’

Judiciary chair Geoff Bellew, who had spent all day presiding over the murder trial involving former policeman Roger Rogerson, reminded the three-man panel of Queenslander Bob Lindner and proud New South Welshmen Don McKinnon and Sean Garlick to ‘’disregard the publicity and opinions expressed by others’’ in relation to Graham case.

Most in the game were split on whether Graham would be cleared of the high shot.

There was still no clear winner in the gallery after the 70-minute hearing.

NRL counsel Peter McGrath said while Graham started out with the best intentions when rushing out of the line to tackle Thurston, he had ‘’over-run’’ him and ‘’flung your arm out’’ as he continued to complete the tackle.

Graham’s fate was sealed in a little over 12 minutes.Source:AAP

“And it’s with moderate impact he pulls player Thurston’s head back,’’ McGrath said.

Graham said Cronulla often became slippery at night, and ‘’if you tackle around the ball, or just below the ball, you can force an error’’.

He claimed Thurston had spotted him race out of the line and lost his balance.

Graham said Thurston dropped his body by about ‘’one foot’’, and the contact ‘’unavoidable’’.

“I had no time to adjust,’’ Graham said.

“He was right in front of me, he drops right in front of me, and there was not enough time to do anything.

“I tried to move my feet to take the weight out of the tackle and go with him to the ground.’’

Graham’s lawyer Nick Ghabar spent more than 20 minutes explaining for the tackle to be deemed careless, it needed to be avoidable, which it was not.

Ghabar pointed out the two on-field referees did not record the tackle in their incident report. However, judiciary Bellew was quick to remind the panel the match review committee had the power to act ‘’independently’’ of the whistleblowers.