I see the Wigan mafia on SKY have got the result they wanted.
Nicely stacking the deck in the favour of.......... erm Wigan this Friday.

Dunno mate 2 matches each seems about right......in Walsh's case it could have been a lot worse.
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Hang on, so Sky control the disciplinary now, do they?

What paranoid garbage is this?

No but they're in a very impressionable position. They speak on live TV on one of the countries biggest sports channels turning over multi millions of pounds each year. They have a huge audience which includes those who chair & sit on the disciplinary panel.
If you realistically use this platform to have a 5 minute chat about one tackle at the end of the game and speak directly at the camera at half time making a passionate plea to 'rid this type of incident from our game' then your making an impassioned plea to the appropriate body (RFL disciplinary) to act as such.
When you view incidents such as Wllie ISA's spear tackle this season which leaves with a warning only, you see clear flaws in the system. If you have a sky overreaction to that tackle during the game, I'd say you get a different outcome

Its Sky who come up with the garbage trying to dramatise everything to suit there own agenda. Last weekend SKY reported Smith signing a 4 year deal with Saints, the club have confirmed it as rubbish.

He's signed a five year deal instead

I've heard Fielden and Sculthorpe are the touch judges tomorrow night. Any truth to this?

Doubt it, Danny Sculthorpe struggled to run 80 metres when he played the game

No, Fielden and Sculthorpe have got a SKY invite to sit either side of the video ref and both to be wired up for a direct link with the field ref to put stuff on report.

You heard it here first.

#PrayForSaints

Nickles Forearm and Judder Man:

I don't disagree with your more nuanced responses. The Sky coverage is cheap, contoversy-seeking (and making!) garbage. They should learn from the much larger more measured attitudes of most of the Aussie. TV commentators. But they won't, of course.

But it goes without saying that the disciplinary process shouldn't be influenced by them, any more than they should by the complaints of club coaches. If we truly believe they are, we might as well give up on the sport altogether.

The review process tolerance is too wide that it creates inconsistency and makes the disciplinary appear corrupt. I remember a lot of team coaches over 10 years ago asking for clarity and transparency, we are no further on as our current coaches descriptive to the disciplinary as "Not Fit for Purpose".