Ganson looked an absolute mess ( overweight). Its hard to see on TV how well he's keeping up, but I don't know how you get through 80 minutes in that shape. If he managed a half decent job, fair play to him, he must have some stamina to drag that gut around. It looks bad on TV though.

nothing wrong with mikas' challenge imo, didnt think he lead with his head just unfortunate

poores' was accidental, it was unfortunate that withers got hit by two of his own players in the tackle

At the time i was incredulous at the decision to give a penalty but that was purely heat of the moment and i can understand why it was given now. Clearly not deliberate (who would tackle with their head on purpose?) but i can see Mika getting a ban for this knowing the disciplinary panel and that would be a joke

Think you've just secured yourself a mention by @RLMeltdown.

They said the decision was laughable not the fact that Amor got knocked out



Sure some people want our sport to be more like netball/

Correct. I don think Mika should be banned, however I can see him getting a letter from the RFL about his tackling technique - Its his responsibility to ensure he 'gets it right' and as has been said on this thread, he could have bent his back and tackled Amor around the legs.

ganson put both teams on a warning then carded the next offence.
compare that to bentham who put wigan on a warning. wigan then conceded the next five penalties but no card. at least ganson was consistent for both sides. all you can ask for is consistency unlike bentham who needs to grow a pair

That's true of every tackle though, it's very rare for a forward on forward tackle with momentum behind it to be a legs tackle.
Mika was trying to put a hit on Amor, the fact that he nutted him is just unfortunate for both parties.
A ban would be very harsh.

You want him to go in low on a prop running the ball back from a KICK OFF?



Nobody is going to go for the legs in that situation, because if you go for the legs in that situation you're going to collect a knee or a hip and you're the one who ends up sleeping or with 20 stitches

There's very good reason that you don't see head-on tackling at the waist or below in the game very often, it's because it's effing stupid and coaches don't coach it. It's pretty much unheard of to tackle at the waist or below in a 1 on 1 kick-return scenario like that



Both players were at fault. Mika had his head on the wrong side of Amor, it was a technically bad effort. But equally Amor is a forward, a prop has no business taking the ball up from the kick off and trying a pirouette.

Accidents happen. You can't just dish out punishments whenever someone has an unfortunate injury. If Amor wasn't cut and got to his feet to play the ball not a single person here would have anything to say about the tackle. Head clashes are a fairly regular occurrence in the game, especially when people get wrong footed

why would you want to ruin a good game by sin binning for small time penalties which wire also did?

It would be if the attacker nutted him

set a dangerous precedent by giving a penalty for that it was an accidental had clash, its a by product of the game and it will always happen. if thats a penalty the best 2 props to have are ian kirke and paul prescott as they get a head clash almost every game.