He should not have thrown the punches and i've no problem with the card, BUT Bailey threw his elbows into Ratchford, then he found himself defensless at that point, thats tough and his own fault. Anyone with half a brain would have realised "its not clever".

Watch it again. His ball carrying arm was off the floor when Sinfield tried to tackle him so he was entitled to carry on driving forward.

On the subject of Briscoe's try, Smith showed how blatently intimidated by Leeds he is by only going to the screen because the Leeds players told him to. There wasn't even nearly anything worth looking at, the video ref only went through it once. Rewind to two weeks ago when Hull wanted to go to the screen for the Ben Westwood try which was a clear double movement, but he didn't want to know.

Certain club officials have far too much influence at Red Hall

you ever get the feeling smith is not a fan of us?

sinbinning tickle for holding on at wire yet the same today when briscoe was held down for longer, not even a penalty, going to the screen today yet allowing a double movement at wire
sending radford off today when probably a yellow for both players, wigan v hudds was worse imo

and not forgetting last seasons 5 star peformance against salford with mylers american football style pass to dump us out the challenge cup!

Hang on, a second ago you said it's a red card every single time. Now you're saying yellow? You're already being inconsistent.

Punches thrown are very rarely red card offenses. If they were, we'd have some 7-a-side games come the derbies!

Radford had his man pinned to the floor defenseless, while swinging jack hammer blows to his head. I'm sorry but there is a big difference. I don't care if it was bailey's fault or not, the fact of the matter was that you cannot do things like that in rugby league. You have no argument

Wellens, at least had the guy looking at him, and gave him a clip back after he recieved one. Wellens "punch" could hardly be called a punch.

Leeds are the RFLs "poster boys". Of course the refs are going to be biased towards them

Oh FFS. Pathetic

Not only did Radford not have him pinned to the floor, he never give him a jack hammer blow. Uppercuts. Don't exaggerate, you'll be saying he ate his babies next!

If someone is prepared to throw an elbow, they should be prepared to receive something back. He wasn't defenceless in the slightest. He just didn't defend himself. There's a difference.

He was on his hands and knees preparing to play the ball. Radford steams in with punches. I have no idea how you can be any less defenceless.

He was on his hands and knees, so he could have tucked his head in (like he did) and cover up with his arms. That's called defending yourself in a fight.

To be defenceless, he's need to be held back by someone, kind of like he waited for Lee Radford to be before he attempted to attack him.

Defenceless? Or just stupid? If you elbow someone in the head multiple times, you should be prepared to get some back!

The stupid one in that exchange was Lee Radford for taking the bait. If he keeps his cool (and let's face it, a player with that level of experience should be able to) he stays on the field.

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For such a poor player opposing fans do go on and on about him enough!!

There wasn't just one stupid person in that exchange.