You're having a tin bath mate.

I thought the hit was "late" Briscoe could have pulled out of the tackle as the ball was already in the wingers hands when he made contact.

The damage was caused by a clash of heads has Briscoe jumped into the tackle.

Wouldnt be surprised to see it refered.

As to HKR they lacked some composure and were short on the bench.

Eh?

since when was a head clash a good hit?

Nothing in it at normal speed, just an unfortunate outcome.

Not on the replay IMHO (in real time) shown from behind the attacking line. It shows it is clearly late as the ball is already in the wingers hands well before the collision which was high in the sense that Briscoe jumps up to make the hit and hence the head contact.

It's all opinion. For me just one of those things. Briscoe did his job, Bailey did his, Watkins could have improved the angle a bit but never mind Sinfield covered his inexperience nicely.

Just an unfortunate outcome.

Agreed.

Bailey drew the tackle and commited Briscoe.... which was nice to see from a Prop these days.

I honestly didnt see anything really malicous in the intent and the head class was purely accidental.

I think that's a fair summary. That kind of collision occurs in every game, it's just very unfortunate that Bailey was hurt, which no-one wants to see.