Guess he'll get the reduction for a first offence [in the UK] if he makes the early guilty plea.

Is Gaskell's reported jaw injury as a result of the Groat incident?

No jaw injury has been reported, so if he does have a jaw injury, then for all we know he could have done it shaving.

Groak should get the max for his grubby shot, regardless of whether he caused an injury or not.

I wondered about that too.

I think there have been rumours on twitter [shock horror, who would have thought that...] but nothing actually from serious sources. Of course, they could be correct for once!

Groat gets a 3 game ban. Ridiculous.

Anthony England ony getting 4 for deliberately spitting at opponent too. The RFL disciplinary panel are unbelivably soft.

I agree with you on the Jaime bloem thing! He knows the ins and outs of the games and knows high shots happen in the spur of the moment! But on the other hand he will jump on any foul play and is consistent for both teams this is why we need more ex players reffing

To be fair, I'd bet most referees have played the game - though not necessarily at pro, or semi-pro level.

We don't "need more ex-players reffing", if you mean SL reffing as a career pathway for SL players, it is ridiculous. For one thing, just because you play SL doesn't mean you'd be any better at reffing than the Dalai Lama.

Surely someone who chose to be a referee at an early stage, and has had many years of officiating at various levels of the game until reaching the top level, is the only sensible route to fill the bulk of places. And nobody is stopping ex players from applying, are they?

Maybe Gareth Hock could take it up as he's been involved in all aspects of disciplinary over the years

From Grub groat's disciplinaryresulted in broken jaw and opponent not expected to play for 8 weeks."

I make that 9th August, 2 weeks into the Super 8s.

But the grub is sorry, and didn't mean it. Basically Gaskell's fault for being that height.

So plenty of opportunities for Mullaney and Addy to work on their partnership...

Bloody typical! Would have put money on Gaskell missing part of 8's at beginning of season. Hopefully he will have a quick recovery and play the majority if not all the middle 8's.

Don't think we'll see mullaney addy pairing again. Suspect it will be sjelka plus one of them. Purtells comment in t&a about it being good having one of halfs back this weekend (sjelka) tends to back that up. I'd guess behind the scenes we're trying to juggle salary capto be able to bring sammut in for standoff role (even if only while gaskells out) but if that doesn't come off think we'll go sjelka/mullaney

It has to be Siejka with either Mullaney or Mendieka, and there are still a few opportunities to experiment with that. I'm not to concerned in the matches where we should dominate the ruck but now have concerns for matches against Sheffield, Fax and Leigh. Imperative that we secure position in top 2 then we can afford to lose a couple........ being second is fine, even several points behind first.