Hes not been cited for it

Here's the incident youtu.be/Sp06s5uTjbE

Here's the incident youtu.be/Sp06s5uTjbE

I think he owes a big apology and a big thank you to Thaler, who looked for a second like he would take action but resisted. Probably after speaking to Thaler and his take on events is why they haven't charged him.

Luke Gale's a very naughty boy - should've been an 8 point try for his attempted kick on Penny when scoring in approx the 70th minute.

its a strange one this, the Hock Thomason one against Hull, it happened in front of the Hull fans and none complained about it Thomasson made a joke about it the Media didn't report it. Then the following Tuesday when the match review panel had seen it it everyone had an opinion on it.

Quote TheElectricGlidingWarrior="TheElectricGlidingWarrior"Here's the incident youtu.be/Sp06s5uTjbE'" Bloody stupid by Gale. Clearly avoidable. 2 match ban for me. You've got to step on stuff like this.

Quote TheElectricGlidingWarrior="TheElectricGlidingWarrior"Here's the incident youtu.be/Sp06s5uTjbE'" Bloody stupid by Gale. Clearly avoidable. 2 match ban for me. You've got to step on stuff like this.

www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/disciplinary/item?6137 "Player makes contact with Referee while walking back to position however contact is not deliberate or excessive." Looked deliberate to me

www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/disciplinary/item?6137 "Player makes contact with Referee while walking back to position however contact is not deliberate or excessive." Looked deliberate to me

Deliberate? Maybe. Probably, even.

Excessive? Hardly.

Still a stupid thing to do, though. Put himself at risk of a ban.

Given that Hock has been charged in the past for pulling the Ref's arm to talk I don't think the RFL should allow this to go unpunished.

Accidental offsite gets a punishment, accidental high tackles do too. There's far too much of this going on in the game and it should be stamped out, while we are at it, get 10 meters for arguing with the ref back in.

Storm in a teacup

Not so sure. RL as a game is utterly dependent on all players, no matter how pumped up or angry, absolutely respecting the referee's right to make the decisions without fear. You might think he's a blind/biased/incompetent git, and you can swear about him to your mates behind the sticks or in the dressing room, but you cannot ever threaten him verbally or physically. Cross that line and the game is done for. It's bad enough having soccer players running in to surround and try to physically intimidate their refs, but in RL, with our hyper-aggressive blokes who are paid to bash each other ? Very, very dangerous. That's why Graham's ban in Oz is quite right, and why Hock's bans were correct too.

I thought Gale should have been given a ban for that, even if Thaler was willing to pretend he thought it wasn't deliberate (it clearly was - I'm a lot less agile than Gale, but I could have avoided walking into Thaler in the same position). Certainly if an amateur player deliberately walked into me like that in a game, I'd send him straight off. Otherwise, you really are inviting much worse to come.

Hard to see that as anything other than deliberate - made worse by a bit of amateur lip-reading; he clearly shoulders Thaler out of the way like a surly teenager, and swears while he's doing it.

He's lucky no to be cited - Mr Child would have had him before the beak in a flash.