A Fracture is a break, and a break is a fracture, we've had this discussion before! arrghhh!

For this exercise a fracture is a fracture and break is a bone that is broken and the two/three/four pieces of bone etc are completely serparated!

So the RFL will grade their punishments according to how "sorry" you appear after you hit a player. What a ridiculous way to hand out punishments.

sorry your wrong! a compound fracture, greenstick fracture are both breaks, a fracture of the zygomatic arch is a break to the bone arround the eye socket, what your trying to do is equate a break as being more severe than a fracture, it's not. a compound fracture of a bone is pretty severe!

both a break / fracture to an eye socket or surrounding area can be either a tiny chip of bone or a complete colapse of the entire socket with severe multiple fractures, resulting in a ruptured eye ball! they are both fractures/breaks just on oposite ends of the scale.
can we put this to bed now.

SLIM (REGISTERED NURSE)

More than two pieces of bone = comminuted.
Fractured bone breaking the skin = compound.
Completely separated = displaced.

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From playing rugby I've had my fair share of breaks, fractures etc Right olcrenon, nose 3 times, scaphoid, foot and 4 fingers and guess what!

They all hurt!

they're all different forms of fractures, thus proving me right, and yes they do hurt, especially years later when you've not played rugby for over ten years and you'd thought the pain had gone away!

nice winters morning to flare them up again!

if he played then maybe ive got my facts wrong..but it still stinks that a player can do this and not get a ban...just proves 1 thing to me..

Can I just point out that you can read the full disciplinary notes each week for each incident on the RFL's website, so we probably don't need to email them every week asking why x or y didn't get a ban.

They are usually good reading tbh, and pretty much explained why Westwood got his ban etc.

bet your bottom dollar he would have got 1 match if he played for saints or that lot up the m6

To be fair it was a bad one, and Wigan have picked up a few bans in recent years, including a 2 year ban for drugs which the regulars claimed wouldn't happen.

uncle mo would have sorted it in his day..eh rogues