How did that work out?

That could be interesting if the draw throws up a Wigan v Leeds game

I see Thaler has been demoted to ref the Fev v London game this weekend.

I can't imagine what a worse one would look like.

I've no dog in this fight between pies and rhinos, but Sat watching the match on Friday night, I was pretty horrified at the angle his neck went into. And having done Brazilian jiu jitsu for many years, I've been on the receiving end of can openers, and getting stacked upside down on my neck.

I wouldn't like to guess the amount of pain the poor lady was in.

I wonder what size Ferres will be when he comes back from this enforced absence?

Come on! The boy's already got a serious injury - no need for your mocking post

Considering he couldn't run during the preseason because of a groin injury he'll be fine during this absence as he'll actually be able to do plenty of fitness work. Like McDermott said when Singleton was banned they'll put him into a mini preseason now so I think he'll actually come back in much improved shape.

I didn't say that, please don't twist my words.

What i said was that, as alluded to on the Wigan board, some.of the Wigan trolls 'hope O'Loughlin, Bateman and McIlorum are playing in the return game'

Read into that what you will.

I wish Gildart a speedy recovery, and the Wigan medical team perhaps some refresher training to boot.

Bang on. Will likely come back in supreme shape after a 6 week training camp which should involve plenty of cardio and less trips to KFC

Most the fans on this forum speak sense, but unfortunately like most forums, there is the likes of you.

Can't accept a horrendous tackle and need to start deflecting it with what someone else has done wrong, like a fuc*ing child.

Thaler has rightly been demoted on the back of it. Firstly as for nobody running in, George Williams stood in the ruck (think it was GW anyway) started pushing as he saw his mate was hurt. Thaler then has two touch judges and the cameras to aid him with the decision.

A clear red, he bottled it, rightly punished.

without getting into a pointless discussion, it should have been red, we don't know what the video referee said to him. perhaps in future we could eavesdrop. would make good listening

Can accept the tackle but that wasn't the point I was replying to which was about Thaler's appointment this week, do we know it's solely based on him not red carding Ferres or just Wigan fans thinking it is? Like I said he's not in a good position to see it and if his decision has been aided by what the touch judges or VR have told him then wouldn't it be them that have messed up? What if the report he got from them suggested it being worthy of a yellow then what's he suppose to do?

Also watch back, George Williams goes to push and takes offence at Cuthbertson (who has fallen off the tackle at that point) almost simultaneously as Gildart hits the floor so his issue wasn't about Ferres' tackle.

I can't find any comment where the Printer says that it isn't a bad tackle. He expressed a view that the ref was harshly dealt with by being demoted after his performance on Friday, which I disagree with, he deserved demotion for not pulling the Union reject for the head high on Rob. But regardless, your reaction is a bit OTT. The tackle was a bad one, a view I think is shared by the majority of Leeds Fans and Delaney deserves what he got. But I still think it was P poor technique and not a deliberate attempt to injure Gildart. I hope Gildart makes a swift recovery and the injury is not as bad as is rumoured (where did the three broken Vertebrae info on your board come from BTW?) But you can't really expect the Rhinos board to see things in the same cherry and white hew that you do, if that offends you, my advice would be to avoid browsing on here after a contentious incident.

I put it on the third page of this thread. I got a text from someone "close" to the club yesterday. If you look at my post on the first page I did hint that it was a very serious injury.