At the risk of spoiling the highly-entertaining raging; rugby’s disciplinary system is largely based on a Common Law trial (or court martial; two key figures in designing it were a solicitor and the Judge Advocate General of the RN).

That has certain consequences.

Plead, you get a discount, because you save time and allow others to agree what you did was a red.

If you don’t plead, you don’t get as big a discount if you don’t succeed. You roll the dice either way, and the odds for good or ill are longer when you roll the dice that way.

Second, the more of an offence happening, the more sentences for it go up as a deterrent.

Happens in the Courts, happened with things like tip-tackles.

Do not get caught for the same offence as someone else a week before or you’ll get more as a deterrent to others.

As an aside, a red card hearing is not a citing. You have to effectively overturn the red, and the onus is on you to show that. It’s a very high bar and very, very rarely succeeds. Pleading but arguing sentence in such a way you effectively undermine the red often works better.

I am, of course, joking. It’s all an Irish conspiracy centred around delectable confectionery produced from the lair of evil that is the biscuit pits under the south stand of the Aviva Stadium, the Barad D4 itself.

What else could it possibly be...?

As you were...

Addendum: that the dice came up snake-eyes does not mean it was wrong to roll the dice. Ross has a pretty solid argument for rolling them, here. https://twitter.com/rossmarno/status/1361983156245716994