Sm to remember I think a Halifax, well Yorkshire team anyway, water carrier involved in a tackle when Warrington attacking. It's rare.... Yorkshire = cheats

Salford played 35 seconds ( 3 sets ) with a player who shouldn't have been on the field .( between 76.33- 77.0icon_cool.gif

Castleford Played 19 minutes with a player who shouldn't have been on the field, who was guilty of denying Salford a try with an dangerous challenge and contributed to breaks that resulted in two further Castleford Tries afterwards. and Castleford have put in an official complaint ..
Tansey put in an early guilty plea for a 1 match ban .

All in all a complete mess .
As mentioned there's precident, Saints in 2006 were fined £100 for a similar incident , but I don't know at what stage of the game , or how close the result was.

Tricky one for the RFL. The precedents don't suggest much of a penalty, but looking at that photo, the extra man was being utilised in defence quite significantly at a crucial point in the game. Would Cas have found a gap in those 3 tackles if there had been just 13 on? Tricky.

FWIW, the club are the ones that may be in trouble, not the interchange official.

As a trainer, I have to let the IC official know we are going to make a change, the player is given a card by us with the number of his interchange. The player walks down the sideline with the IC official and when the player coming off is seen by the IC to be off the pitch he will take the card from the ongoing player and hold it up to the crowd.

I cannot understand how a player got on unless the club's sideline staff did not inform the IC official.


In the NRL, you can acutally be fined if you throw the card at the IC official and also, you MUST put it in their hand. I've seen players called back off the pitch to be told to picked up a dropped card and place it in their hand.

Quote: mat "Bit strange that cas waited till today to lodge a complaint. Almost like they knew nothing about it till they saw this thread....'" they actually reported it to the match commissioner straight after the game and Salford have now been charged www.superleaguefans.com/salford- ... #fd4f80ff4 we shall just have to wait and see the outcome

Quote: mat "Bit strange that cas waited till today to lodge a complaint. Almost like they knew nothing about it till they saw this thread....'" they actually reported it to the match commissioner straight after the game and Salford have now been charged www.superleaguefans.com/salford- ... #fd4f80ff4 we shall just have to wait and see the outcome

Wigan Wire game in 70's when two balls ended up on pitch and the Pie Eaters picked up the wrong ball when both balls were bouncing around in open play and scored and the ref allowed it.
Or did I dream it ?

Yes, and got away with it too! Although thought it was for Hull and against Leeds

Shane Cooper did something similar for Saints v Widnes many moons Bach. He picked up a 2nd ball when defending and dropped it when going into a tackle - Saints got the head & feed!

this happened a couple of years ago at a haven v leigh game, duffy came on for leigh and for 1 minute they had 14 players on and scored a try, ref realised and sin binned duffy, haven got beat and complained to the RFL who investigated and said no case to answer even though duffy had entered the field of play illegally and not gone through the 4th offical