So being the fair judge of a situation that you are Bren, what would you describe Hardacker's "he got me with his elbow" 2 days later "erm shoulder" Tweet? A lack of class? football esque drama to get the opposition in trouble?

Gets dropped by rangi.... He hit me with his elbow

Oh wait it's wasn't

Cowardly, soft, vindictive and an insult to a game normally played by men !!!

Enough about the drunken violent criminal Rangi Chase and his reputation for cowardly attacks to the heads of three quarters. What about hardaker?

The idea that Hardaker is some how to blame for Chase getting punished for hitting him in the head is only slightly less ridiculous than when Gareth Thomas got the blame for Cas being punished for their fans being homophobic.

No doubt those who want Chase bannned will be very quick to defend players of their club when they are up on charges for similar offences...or escape them.

Have you ever copped a tackle where you couldn't honestly say what hit you? I have. Hardaker saw arm, felt contact, saw stars. If he assumed elbow, saw footage and changed his mind, what's actually wrong with that?

This all seems a bit of a storm in a teacup to me. Disciplinary will look at an incident involving a possible high shot, in line with the rules. They'll review the footage they have and reacha conclusion. If they think it was a reckless high shot (note nobody's actually said it was deliberate) he'll get a short ban. A warning on technique is probably more likely given the footage on Sky was pretty inconclusive.

This somehow seems to have whipped up into a storm of persecution and vilification based on about 4 tweets from Hardaker and Fozzard and a couple of highly inconclusive stills (by inconclusive, I mean only that the one posted on here seem to show some contact, there is no way to say they are THE moment of impact, so they prove absolutely nothing at all either way).

As for Hardaker on any pro RL player being soft, I reckon if I ran at full tilt and stumbled head first in to Rangi chase's shoulder (whether he moved his shoulder towards my head or not) I'd know about it!

Whole thing's a non-issue. Even if he is found guilty, its of a reckless shoulder charge, not assault and battery.

Id be surprised if we didn’t see at least one player from every team cop a ban for a high shot or contact with the head before the end of the year.

Brilliant stuff.

So, if somebody was, let's say, assaulted in the street by someone they knew and wrote about it on twitter, that would be prejudicial and the assault therefore couldn't be prosecuted?

Fantastic.

I wouldn't bother, there'll be f**k all in there!

Got to admit he has a point Cas fans, it's not like the lad doesn't have previous.

Nothing wrong ??? I got hit by an elbow.... Oh wait it was a shoulder but no need to check simple facts on video before demonising a cellow pro...It's rangi chase he must be guilty because of a high shot in 2012 in a different game

Softacre got fairly banged and decided to lie about it, that much is obvious and IMO when chase gets found correctly innocent Softacre should be the one up on a charge !!!!

As I've already said, it was ill-judged and a symptom of the modern era; the instantanous nature of modern communications, together with its availability to the hard of thinking, means that this kind of thing happens all the time - this forum being a pefect example.

Regardless of the outcome of the disciplinary case, his club should be spoken to and asked to reinforce their social media policy and put him on notice to his future conduct. To suggest that it was part of a premeditated stitch-up job on Hardaker's part is something of a stretch.

I have to say that the over-reaction of some of you big girls blouses is cringeworthy; I'm sure that Chase loves that you love him so much, but he'd be embarassed to read some of the tripe on here.

It's to be hoped he dose not read the Waky forum