I reckon he'll pick up a couple of games for that.

can't blame the on field ref no, but surely the VR should have picked it up on the first replay?
im pretty sure he will be summoned to red hall on tuesday.

Did it go to the VR?

TBF the first indication I'm sure 95% of us had that something was dodgy was when Monaghan laid down afterwards.

Not defending the incident BTW, although I reckon it's clumsy not intentional. Should get a ban.

It's not illegal to do so. It happens regularly.

1 match ban max for me.

Go check the rules i think you will find it is illegal

I havnt seen the incident so cant really comment, but trying to kick the ball out is illegal, using your legs to prevent the ball being grounded is not. There can be a fine line between the two sometimes.

For me there was potentially a much worse incident in the Hudds Wigan game, if we are getting super sensitive about such things. As Wardle scores his first try a Wigan player (I think Bateman) comes in with both knees. As with Ablett I will give him the benefit of the doubt, that he was trying to get part of his body under the ball, but the damage could have been much worse if he had connected.

I have. Stopping a try with the foot is not illegal and happens (or attempts at it) happen regularly and plenty of tackles near the try line involve the defender getting their feet and legs under the body of the attacker.

Kicking the ball out of the hands is illegal.

Why did referee not ask video ref if there were grounds for awarding an '8 point try'? What more has to happen for refs to award an 8 point try?

Mick Monaghans try was perfectly ok too how could Child's get that wrong?

It should have been an 8 point try. In the refs defence he gets 1 look at incidents, if we went to the video ref every time a player takes a knock we'd never get the game started.

I don't see why the video ref can't tell the ref there's something to look at in that situation where the game is stopped though.

Heres Brian Mcdermotts thoughts on the incident:

''I've not seen the incident so can't comment''

Might not be illegal to try and stop the grounding with your foot but it's sure as well illegal to do it in such a manner you miss the ball entirely and kick a player in the jaw and leave him apparently heavily concussed.

Should have been a red and 8 point try but the disciplinary can and hopefully will deal with it.

Hardaker managed to find Chris Bridge yet?

Completely agree