Childs is useless. The RFL Disciplinary is wholly inconsistent. The Sky is up.

Why should any of this come as surprise and why does any of this, which has been the case forever, mean the game is dying?

I wonder how many of those proclaiming teh death of the game actually attended in the 70s and 80s when things were much, much worse, whatever old farts looking through rose tinted glasses may tell you.

thats the biggest problem.

barrie mac was brilliant on the briers issue last night on backchat. nailed it spot on

What did he say?

he said he understood there wasn't a lot in it but had bailey or himself done it the outcome would have been different.
he could see both sides, very little in it but there needs to be consistency

Which you wont get due to the crux of the descision comes down to the referees discression. As was mentiond on the fantastic ass-covering #askthe referee. Although what else do we expect really?

Cheers. Baz is bang on.

I didn't think he would get banned, but it should of been dealt with on the pitch in the first place.




1st video I clicked on YT 2:50 mark, but crap angle watch?v=R1A6UGhd1FI

This.

You can't disagree with that.

Echos what Bails said in YEP, it shouldn't matter who you are, it should depend on what you do. Sounds fair.

Absolutely.
Didn`t Hock tweet that if it had been him he would have been banned for 3 games?
I still thought I heard Childs say no contact made when speaking to his TJ`s.
Although he was pretty near to the incident.
Maybe if he felt contact was made he would have at least binned him.
The fact that was missed should have been picked up by Redhall at least.

Surely the players ability to punch shouldn't be a factor anyway?

Just because someone like Hock or Rob Burrow would actually make decent contact the offence is surely the same? Briers punches like a girl, but he still threw the punch and meant to throw the punch.

Too busy playing amateur stuff then to watch ...... and even though I played 95% of games on the wing (I'm not daft), can't remember any game where I didn't cop for (and throw!) a few digs. Was always part of the game, but the one thing that really annoys me in todays SL is refs (and whatever those ornaments running up & down the touchline nowadays are called) not using the sinbin enough. Putting players on report is a complete cop-out, and has no effect on the game where the offence has been committed.

A simple "Sit down, calm down, and come back on when you get your head straight" was the order of the day. It was never a full 10 minutes either - Touchie would decide when you had calmed down enough. The threat of it kept most players to no more than a scuffle to dominate a tackle, then get on with the play ... and refs let that go. Suppose they didn't get scrutinised with 20 slow motion replays then though, even at top level.

rlHERErl

The same Ryan Bailey who wasn't sent off against Catalans for punching Blanch?

But was sin binned and subsequently charged with a harsher offence than Briers and received a ban. Bailey's punch being retaliation in addition.