I have never tried to excuse the assault.The judgement in these matters is down to the legal/justice system.
However,your cogent argument has changed my mind.Oh,yes.It is obviously a Yorkshire thing and as you appear to believe there should be no end to the punishment I think all of Yorkshire should have a prison constructed around it and all Yorkshire inhabitants incarcerated forever.
Those inside and outside of sport are guilty of offending within and outwith this country.
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I won't mention the more infamous....or the behaviour of Mr Blunkett which led to the failure to protect the citizens of this country.
You win - so you don't have to post on the subject anymore.
I am off to remonstrate with the female medical staff who treated Greg Johnson for the injury sustained at the game on Good Friday.
The Easter message has obviously passed you by.The result ,sadly,of a secular society which nearly got 24 hrs drinking and gambling and got you irated about an incident in a drinking hostelry at 1.15 in the morning in the presence and sight of a number of people.

Any news on McPherson?

Keep digging

Concussion. Apparently. He's on the mend though according to the man himself.

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Very pleased to read that Shannon McPherson is OK. Just a thought . . Considering the amount of injuries he gets do you think he's just unluckily or do you think it has something to do with his technique??

Details of Charge / Reason for NFA
Player makes legitimate attempt to fend opponent.

Hope that helps. Not all female fans are clueless then.

As for McPherson - can hardly call concussion due to getting hit by a ball in the face down to his technique! (Well not mcphersons anyway!) glad he's on the mend.

There wrong end of..

I saw it at the time &thought it certainly was an elbow in the face as did the touch judge who was standing right next to the pair of them.

Now whether it was "deliberate" or just clumsy, poor technique, an attempt to fend off that went wrong - who can say?

the RFL disciplinary panel as they have ruled it as a legitimate fend,hardly a deliberate smash intended to cause injury as some of you claim it was.
if it really was that bad then im sure one of the officials on duty would have also seen it that way and appropriate action would have been taken.

glad mcpherson is on the mend, it was a right smack he took!

Clumsy deliberate what ever he used his elbow to an already injured player causing more damage, he knew that player was being treated for face injury .

In fact what they said was "Player makes legitimate attempt to fend opponent."

The clue is in the wording perhaps - in their opinion he attempted to fend off Johnson, but the result was, as I and the Touch Judge saw it, he hit him with the elbow - you may recall that the Touchie came on, flag raised and play was stopped and we were awarded a penalty. Clearly the disciplinary panel thought that was adequate - all history now!!

no, he performed a legitimate fend. If the player was so badly injured he should have come off, that's an error by your own medical staff - its a contact sport for goodness sake, or did they just tell him not to bother tackling anyone or receive the ball but just stand there and look ugly. As for the latter - did he know, I didn't know what he was being treated for I would hope our players have better things to do than watch what the medical staff are doing to an opposition player, but you know he knew - wow, you told anyone else about these powers of yours?