I was stood in our East stand that game as always and as soon as the tackle was made I said to my mate "Mika will be in bother for that" I was really surprised there wasn't any further action considering Flanagan was down for some time and didn't return to the field

Same happened to Puletua against Salford which put him out for 3-4 games, its an absolute joke.

As it shouldn't - he should be shouting it as loud as possible in all the press avenues available as should the club administrators. We suffer for a couple of shoulder charges and a high tackle non of which has caused any of the players involved to even not be able to complete the game in progress yet we lose 2 key players .... typical RFL bullsh*t , more interested in implementing a stupid detrimental shoulder charge rule than protecting players

Meli was very lucky he didn't injure Craig Hall more seriously.
Welham is out for 4 weeks thanks to Gardners shoulder charge.
As far as Con Mika's tackle which the Rfl looked at and responded as,


ON/211/13
Name Constantine Mika
Club Hull KR
Shirt Number 11
Match Hull KR v St Helens
Competition Super League
Date 07/04/13
Incident considered Dangerous Contact in 4th minute (Flanagan)
Decision No charge
Details of Charge / Reason for NF Player tackles legs of opponent held in the tackle however first contact is around thigh


Why didn't Brown compain at the time?

If first contact is the thigh, then how come he has done his ACL in? I thought that was around the knee joint?

Either way, how he has got away with ending someone's season is baffling to say the least.

And in terms of Meli, Chase got 3 games for shattering that poor bloke's jaw, yet Meli gets more for a clumsy tackle that was pretty bad? Seems fair.

For fans of a club, which counted Chris 'coathanger' Burton amongst its ranks, to lecture any one about high tackles is laughable at best!

Because it's the RFL - I'm sure they use some kind of random number generator to dish out bans.

yep, this week it was "Arthur" and set of balls "number 3"

Imo Meli should have got 6 matches(quite a lot of your fans have said the same) but I totally agree about Chase he should have got at least 8 matches.

What a ridiculous response to mention a player from 30 years ago. And where was this supposed lecture??

Well it's a good job the RL dont listen to people like you and SaintFan isnt it.

Isn't the 4 match ban irrelevant anyway as Meli is out due to him breaking?dislocating his arm? If so, the RFL have missed a trick as they could have banned him for longer knowing he can't play anyway and thus showing they are clamping down on dangerous play.

If they did that then god forbid decided to start showing consistency they would have made a rod for their own backs as every clumsy challenge would have triggered an 8 match ban. They were only as harsh as they were because it was a TV game with 9 million slow motion replays making it look far worse than it was. I'm glad it was the BBC though as they called it as they saw it where Slaphead and Wiggy would have been screaming for the death penalty like some idiots on these forums.

The fact he is injured should play absolutely no part in the ban. What a ridiculous suggestion. If they had given him a 72 match ban then they'd have to be consistent with that, so what's the point?!