I see yer point sal but that falls soley at Chase's feet imo he's their "Marquee" and highest paid player so he should have to face some of the financial burden.
It's not the RFL's responsabillity imo to wory about any kind of £££££ implications for the club if their player is banned.

It may not be their job to worry about it, but it could be in the back of their mind. After all, surely the RFL can only afford to prop up a certain number of clubs

I don't think its wrong, but it should only have a bearing on it. To a certain extend then length of absence is down to a certain amount of luck.

Using the recent spear tackle by L'Estrange. In theory, that could have ended Peacock's career, had he have been very unlucky.

In the real world example, I don't think it makes that much difference in a like for like situation. If you hit someone once, and it just happens to be a cracker I'm not certain you'd get a harsher sentence than if you hit someone with a normal punch. Where there is extra punishment and usually extra damage is where multiple blows are struck, which I don't think is comparable in this case

Cas shouldn't be a 'one man team' then

All clubs have marque players - could you see the RFL banning Sam Tomkins for 8 weeks or Kevin Sinfield or James Roby?

If they deserve it yes

Tad - you don't get much more blatant than Chase on Saturday so what would you have to do to get 8 matches and no matter what Tomkins did he would never get 8 matches, he is the biggest draw in the sport.

That should make him more accountable for his actions then. He should be under even greater scrutiny to make sure he doesn't get anything that wrong.

All pigs are equal mate, some more equal than others.

Also Playing devil's advocate here Sal
Would the RFL has also take into account the welfare of the Catleford Tigers clubs finances if Rangi made that self same challenge on one of SL's so called marque players?
Lets say for arguments sake that this serious injury was sustained by Sam and also in a game that Cas needed to win to make the play offs a reality and thus secure their financial future

I know which side of the fence they would be sitting on then!

Shoot them all and let the Rugby Gods sort them out.

thats on youtube 'Leeds 26 vs Widnes 12 (1989) 1/2' the challenge on offiah by gibson in the 2nd part isn't very clever either