Is it me or does Daryl Powell sound like he's been hitting the sauce?

Too many idiots "playing" the game!

Slightly different level of contact to the one Hock made with Matt Thomason. Expect a warning from the MRP.

Dont worry, im sure Lord McManus will be on the case, pointing out that Hock has been banned a couple of times for similar

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King James

But any intentional contact with a ref is supposed to be serious even "placing an hand on the arm" of a referee to get his attention is citable

If Hock had done it, there would be uproar, bit like Barton in football. Feel sorry for Hock, no hard feeling from his time at Salford, the RFL must show consistency and ban Gale, time will tell.

I watched the game - i must have missed this ! surely if it was a talking point people would be talking about it ....this is the 1st mention i've seen of it.

Leeds second try in the left corner. Cas thought there'd been a knock-on at the ptb and made brief appeals to Thaler for the video ref. Thaler ignored, and as he positioned himself to award the try, Gale deliberately shouldered him aside, causing a short delay as Thaler frowned at Gale and re gathered himself to blow the whistle.

I've no skin in this game for either cas or Leeds. If anything, I was mildly supporting cas. But that looked clearly deliberate to me. Still, heard nothing more about it so he may get away with it.

Exactly as I saw it and was surprised that Thaler didn't take him to one side after the decision had been made. Thaler is the one ref that might act this way, had it been Silverwood or Child he would certainly have made more of it.

No way did Gale not see Thaler yet he just walked his line right through the ref as he was awarding the try, deliberate IMO.

I saw it and wondered about it, doubt it was anything more than a friendly nudge

The one with Thomason where he ran in to him? certainly

The other one where hock pulled his shoulder? Im not sure it was all that different.

Bailey on Silverwood?

It didn't look great from Gale, and considering the 1st Hock one and the Bailey one were 4 match bans, Gale will be lucky to not get a game or two. Though saying that its easy to hold high standards against the pantomime villains.

Brent Webb did something very similar a few years ago and copped a ban. Hard to *prove* it was deliberate, but looked it to me.