Exactly, when did a physical offence become less of an offence than verbal abuse?

He broke my doll first!!!

nothing, and you'd think by now that ablett would learn that winding players up by being a wasp doesn't pay anymore, so he'd best pack in doing it.

Always the victims.

Was hardly a headbutt.

And as for a professional like JP to react like that and punch a much smaller, part-time player repeatedly with such malice. He deserves the ban more than Sarsfield.

As said above:

Always the victim.

The *apology* from Hardaker was laughable. Reading the form of words which was used it's unbelievable that those words came from the lips of Hardaker himself...It was more of a damage limitation by the Leeds club formulated by a member of the legal profession.

To be fair to Briers , he did owe Abbo one after Carl trampled him into the Old Trafford turf on his way to another grand final try and winners ring

Both got pats on the back, but were also called plonkers, for not hitting the carthorse harder (and I couldn't give less than one For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge about how many GF winner's rings he's got, he's still a carthorse)

Well Peacock got the same as Lee and Woody, however Hardaker has just been given a nice 5 game rest.

Anyone who thinks Ablett is a carthorse knows very little about R.L

I think RL isn't for you. Have you considered crown green bowls?
Forgive me if I don't take seriously some of the recommended punishments for Zak coming from people who hero-worship a person who engages in bestiality. Somewhere your values got screwed up!

What's the validity of that apology (to Monaghan) when the independent findings state:

"The tribunal accepted that the player is not homophobic but were satisfied that the remarks were made to the match official"

So did he get any extra ban for getting a carefully crafted apology drawn up that was now found to be b*ll

Or, just a prepared statement from someone who had a few days to think about it?