I haven't seen either incident, but how in earth does McIlorum have an early guilt plea? He's the biggest 5h1thouse in the league.

you'd have had your assumption there reinforced if you'd have seen his cheap shot on dixon. Lad fielding the restart - shoulder charge to the face - broken jaw

In the words of my local plumber who over ordered new parts for my toilet cistern, "What a load of ball cocks"!

Never mind the referees having no consistency, the RFL are as bad!

Justin carney is one of Castleford's best ever wingers, but he must learn to curb his temper, he fell foul of the RL 3 times last season. Teams know he has a short fuse and will retaliate, I am sure Bateman would have said someting to him, and he responded with a punch. With the review system now, no one is going to escape with a blatent punch. So calm down Justin we need you.

Thing that winds me up regarding McIlorum is that he'll get 3 matches after the fact and poor Kirk will be eating through straw for the next few weeks and will probably miss 8/10 games maybe more. The Rfl and refs have got to address this the on report is such a cop out

Agree. Cracking player, but, like Elima, has a massive key in his back. Very easily wound up and when let go, boy, does he go off.

Unbelievable just watched the super league show and they showed Carney throwing a punch and getting sin binned but not the tackle on Dicko.

Did you really expect anything else?

It is the first time I can remember us being shown first as well, mindst you that was probably because we were playing Wigan rather than any other reason.

Yeah they always show the Sunday matches last i noticed that too.

Fined and warned, but no ban

phew! I'm assuming they ruled that he was provoked? very surprised considering his bad record

RFL Twitter suggests that he admitted to the charge, which was probably in his favour sentencing wise.



McIlorum 3 game ban, after he chose not to use his EGP and contested the decision instead.

I think he got off very lightly - don't feel bad for McIlorum though. Dicko gets to spend a good few months on the sideline and he gets 3 matches... lenient tbh

Glad Carney got off but must serve as a warning for him.

Definitely Fully!

We can't afford to give penalties away or have players spending time in the bin. We need to keep our good run going and finish as high as we can this year. It would be great if by the tail end of the season, we were safely ensconced in the play off places and we could actually enjoy watching other teams fighting it out to avoid relegation.