Quote Andy Gilder="Andy Gilder"You pick up the man, you and you alone are responsible for getting him back to ground in a safe manner. You may not like it, but that's the approach the sport takes and IMO it's entirely the right one for player safety.
While what happened to Burns may not be what Hardaker intended, and fortunately it resulted in no harm being done, it is right that the RFL have referred it to the disciplinary and right (IMO) that he got a charge out of it. I might have gone Grade A, but I've no real argument with B and a one match ban.
I don't really care what McIlorum did or didn't do. I don't really care what goes on in the amateur game. I don't want to see tacklers being unable to control a player once they get him in mid-air and beyond the horizontal. It presents an unacceptable risk of injury to the ball-carrier that the sport doesn't need.'"
Whole heartedly agree with everything you've said there aside from the McIlorum bit, because unless they clamp down on all these incidents they can't be taken seriously as a disciplinary body. The punishments dished out to Sneyd and Sims in recent weeks for acts of deliberate endangerment are not a significant deterrent, and that worries me.
