I see club tinted glasses are in full use on here!

Is it a shoulder charge? -yes
Is there any contact with the head? -yes
Is it mis-timed? - yes
Is it reckless as to whether injury may occur? - yes
Is there any malice? - no
Has the RFL set a precedent this season for such "tackles"? - yes
Do I think the incident will be cited and any ban be administered? - no
Are fans from any team capable of being open, honest and even handed in this or any debate on rlfans forums - unlikely!

I am not sure how it can be compared to Chase's last week tbh. Chase went in with the elbow. As it appears he likes to quite often.

It was nothing like Chase's 'tackle'. Chase made direct contact with Hardaker's head and raised his forearm in the process.

So the video ref has club tinted glasses on as well then!!

I don't know, has the video ref posted on here?

IMO it would have been a fair tackle had O'Brien had the ball, which is the main difference with Chase. However it was still an illegal tackle as O'Brien had passed the ball & Scruton had time to relax the intensity of his tackle but not prevent the impact. I have effected that tackle many times & had it dished out to me. You don't get many chances in a match to line up a player like that & Scruton couldn't resist the opportunity that had just past (or passed). It was not a sending off offence, but would have been 10 minutes if ruled late, so it will be interesting to see what the outcome is if he is referred belatedly.

Meh, looked OK to me. The one thing I did find distasteful was one of the Bulls players holding aloft an imaginary card trying to influence Ganson into sin-binning a Cas player, which he was going to do anyway. No need for it - it isn't "soccer".

Maybe we should play with them yellow tassles stuck to players shorts that way there is no risk of death caused by shoulder in our game!

I personally thought both the hit/push on blythe and the off the ball hit by whitehead were 2 worse incidents as at least o'brien was probably expecting to be tackled!

It was slightly late and nick hit shoulder to shoulder, it was the whiplash from o'briens neck that caused him to go off, he is also on loan from wire so cas had to make sure he was ok, it was nothing like chase or busquets who hit him a good 5 seconds after he had passed the ball whereas as soon as o'brien passed he was hit nothing a prop can do about that no way can a 16 stone guy pull out of the tackle

Didn't see this yesterday as I was out a Giants match, but having read about this "dreadful tackle" I watched the Sky replay this morning with some interest. Scruton's tackle was a little late so a penalty, no more than that. It has been blown out of proportion because Phil Clark immediatly compared it to the bad one by the Catalans prop the previous week. It was nothing like it.

Having watched it O'brien took one step between passing and the hit, not three or four. Because of the way his body was turned Scruton may not even have seen the pass. Not the best tackle, but no malice imo.

Couldn't have said it better. If you take on the line as a half back you are going to get hits like this....committed,slightly after the ball has gone and most importantly not malicious

A few red amber and black tinted glasses on here. Scruton clearly led with the elbow and connected on the bridge of the lad's nose. As you can see from this [IMAGE] his whole forearm is within the half-back's brain cavity.

Seriously, if a Giant's fan thinks the hit wasn't too bad (and lets face it we aren't having a mutual lovefest of late) then that says something.

I was disgusted to be a Bulls fan after this attack. If Scruton doesn't get a 10000 match ban for that considering the angelic Rangi got two matches then there's something up.

In all seriousess it should have been a penalty but that was it. We're bound to get melodramatic over reaction bile from cas fans like Nottinghamtiger and tigertot but that's due to bias nothing else.

Ere ere

Nowt in it TBH. These things happen all throughout the season and nowt gets mentioned. I reckon these poor Cas fans are just being a bit touchy cos they lost their star player for a couple of games and, as such, they are baying for blood.

If Chase was not serving a ban TBH I doubt nobody from Cas would have remembered the incident, never mind keep banging on about it.