Fans of Championship clubs keep telling us the disciplinary treats them more harshly than SL clubs.

Let's see if Sarsfield's attack to the head of a grounded player with the arm, subsequent head butt and then "attempted" punching is punished more severely than Peacock's toe to toe punching shall we?

Oh, and had Thaler spotted the original offence and blown his whistle, none of that would have kicked off. Still, too much to expect that arrogant show pony to do his job.

Peacock grade B punching, sarsfield not charged. Hmm.

Hardaker has been charged with a grade E offence of using verbal abuse based on race/colour/religion/sexual preference.

That carries a potential ban of between 4 and 8 matches.

Thought there was an RFL conspiracy that made certain that none of our players got banned???

Along with Ablett, we're going to have arguably our best 3 players so far this year all banned for Hudds. One strange bloody conspiracy is that.

Maybe you guys have been seeing how far you can push it. Picking televised games to: kick someone in the head / punch people 3/4 times / scream 'homophobic' abuse may have been taking it too far?

Also quite funny if you look at the forums of all the other teams in SL on RLFans the only ones with threads going on about Hardaker getting charged and banned are.....Warrington, Saints, Wigan and Hudds.

So solely the other contenders for the GF when the year began.......coincidence I'm sure

Absolutley ridicoulous , and before anyone starts banging on i do not agree with recent suspensions for punching from other teams . Unprovoked attacks should carry bans but sorry the aggresor on Friday got what he deserved and for him to get off scott free because he was not capable of putting up a show once Peacock was stood up should not render him sin binning sufficient . Peacock was dealt with by Thaler and that should be the end , of course the RL Want to ban Peacock , i suggest they ban Thaler as well because his recent performances have been on a par with James Child .

I think all the times JP gets smacked in the face and doesn't react should add up as credits that he can spend when some c**k stiff arms him and head butts him while he's lying on the ground. The fact that Leeds got the penalty and that both players had 10 minutes and both showed each other respect after the game finished should really be the end of it. I don't want to see punches thrown at every tackle but then neither will coaches - 12 men on the pitch is not ideal. tvoc is right sometimes about the sanitisation of the game going too far.

Agree about Thaler, far too busy looking to see if JP's prone body was obstructing defenders.

Was Briers charged after he unprovokedly punched Ablett in the playoffs last year?

Inevitable and not unwarranted. I personaly don't think there was anything in it other than a general insult, but it was the wrong word to use and it would be innapropriate to let it go unpunished.

Can anyone else remember when you were a kid & you were told that "sticks & stones may break your bones but names will never hurt you"?
I don't condone what Hardaker may or may not have said nor to whom, but we do need to maintain some sense of proportion here.
An 8 game ban when you get less for breaking someone's jaw or causing, however accidentally, a career threatening injury?
Also am I alone in regretting the loss of the word "gay" in any other context than that of reference to homosexual men?
Sometimes I despair of the modern world.