Rubbish never a high tackle

Pathetic. Shoulder contact and his arm came up after , disgusting decision given by Ian Smith the worlds worst ref

however, he did disallow their last " try" which another VR could have given!!
agreed though that TP s shoulder charge was fair.
well played lads.

Farcical. Fairly similar to Moa's earlier in the season but not as bad, that wasn't a sending off either.

Both players go at it shoulder to shoulder and the Frenchy just bends his legs to give a push off into the shoulder charge. There was no raised arm and simply how you can give a red off the is mind blowing.

When Sam Burgess played in SL, the SKY commentors gave huge raps for a similar tackle on Frodsham, which knocked him out cold.

Put simply if that's the rule now, Burgess would never have played SL, he would have seen Red every other match.

Stupid decision.

Poor decision, it's not even a penalty. It's poor technique from Henderson, you dip your head into a challenge that it always shoulder on shoulder and it's your own fault. TP doesn't deliberately attack the head.

If they've outlawed the use of the shoulder, they need to communicate that to people. SBW might be better not returning to league if that's happened and someone better tell Burgess.

I thought he dipped his head too, but did not want to stand accused of blaming the Catalans player. It was just poor all round.

It was a superb challenge - if we start penalising them then we're slowing turning the sport into a game of touch rugby.

Someone mentioned Sam Burgess on Frodsham. Well how about Sam Burgess's legendary tackle on Fuifui Moimoi? Very similar to TP's challenge today and Burgess was (rightly) lauded for his shot.

Ryan Bailey on Fa'asavalu is another?

I only mentioned the Frodsham one as he was out cold on the floor. But if we are banning shoulder charges well does that go for attacking players as well as defending players..


Where are those tackle strips, get them on the players and we can pull them off and make it non contact.

Just nonsense, not even a penalty. Just a good hit.

To hear the Sky mob agreeing with decision really makes you question their ability to call these games.

I 've heard them going on about these hits on Boots and All a few weeks ago, saying that they should be banned. So it was not surprising to hear them agreeing.

Exactly the same as Sam Moas for Hull earlier in the season.

I can't remember how many games ban he got.

No it wasn't. Moa hit Rinaldi in the head - crucial difference. If TP get's a one match ban like Moa did I'll be suprised.

And both were incorrect calls.