Brisbane will decide on Tuesday whether to roll the dice and challenge the severity of a judiciary charge threatening to rub out representative forward Petero Civoniceva for the opening two weeks of the NRL season.

Broncos officials opted not to comment on the match review committee’s careless grade three charge for his high shot on Melbourne Storm backrower Ryan Hinchcliffe in Saturday night’s NRL trial at North Hobart Oval when contacted by AAP on Monday.

Coach Anthony Griffin and football operations manager Andrew Gee studied the tackle on a front-on video taken by Melbourne officials which arrived at the club on Monday afternoon.

Civoniceva hasn’t been suspended since 2010.

If he pleads guilty, he’ll have to serve a one-match suspension and start the 2012 season with 96 carry over points hanging over his head, a situation which could convince Brisbane to fight the charge by comparing his tackle with others that have only attracted a grade one.

But if they went down that road and lost, it would be costly.

While Hinchcliffe was clearly stunned by Civoniceva’s tackle the Melbourne forward had earlier been involved in a head clash with Brisbane hooker Andrew McCullough in the first half which could have contributed to his slow recovery.

Three players were charged after the final round of trials, with South Sydney’s Issac Luke also facing a one-game ban after coming in into contact with referee Jason Robinson in Saturday night’s Charity Shield loss to St George Illawarra.

Luke ran into the back of Robinson as he chased down a clearing kick in the 31st minute.

Rabbitohs backrower Eddy Pettybourne will not miss any matches despite a grade one careless high tackle charge for his tenth minute high shot on Dragons centre Chase Stanley.

A concussed Stanley did not take any further part in the game.