All this crying about briers is pathetic. The likes of bailey and ablett have got away with far worse than what briers did. Bring back the biff, its part of the game.

If you could point me to any incident where Ablett has got up from a legitimate tackle and punch the tackler that would be great. Intact Ablett has had similar incidents before when he has been punched, and in those situation he's never retaliated back (apart from laughing at the punches that is)

Punching people because you don't like being tackled is certainly not part of the game.

On the basis that Briers got away with it because of the ref's bottle and the EGP option, it might be part of the game for a few weeks to come.

That's why i said the closest.

A-B Reaction to opponent – lashing out - Ablett was walking back into the Leeds line and didn't do anything that should cause an immediate reaction.

A-B Punching – self defence - It certainly wasn't self defence.

A-B Punching – one on one – minor - 'one on one' implies the two players were squaring up.

C-D Punching – sustained, repeated or violent - It wasn't any of those

E Punching – sustained, repeated, violent & aggressive - It wasn't any of those

So that leaves E-F Running in & punching – opponent off guard - He certainly caught his opponent 'off guard'

As i said it just highlights one of the problems with the disciplinary.

How did he catch him off guard, when Ablett was looking at him?

This can be explained by reviewing the photo evidence earlier in the thread. Ablett always walks back into the line whilst auditioning for a job at the ministry of silly walks.

This can be explained by reviewing the photo evidence earlier in the thread. Ablett always walks back into the line whilst auditioning for a job at the ministry of silly walks.

he caught him off guard, when he ran at him at high speed, did a superman punch from behind.

All this despite ablett looking at him, as he stood up, as ablett was still stood next to him and had barely moved.


Some blatant lying and/or stupidity from people here, from teams who are usually the beneficiaries of such slack refereeing.

Won't somebody think of the children!

They did - he submitted an EGP

Briers should have got 2 matches, one for throwing a punch because he can't take being tackled and one for how patheic the said punch was! Really it is the gutless/clueless Refs that are to blame, 10 minutes in the bin would have sorted it no problem!