so some people on here still think he got what he deserved,ben flower launches an attack to what appears an unconscious player,that results in the player leaving the pitch and is forced to retire eight games later with recurring concusion issues,and cops an 8 game ban.acton throws no punches,no high shot,or late shot.injures the player to such an extent,that he is out of the game for a full 10 minutes,he then returns to the game to assault another player and gain a 1 match ban.i am not actons biggest fan,but to be judged for something that did not happen/could have happened is a farce.would this happen in a real court ???.

Don't forget, Flower knocked him out in the first place as well!

5 or 6 was my expectation so I do agree 9 seems harsh. However, I also think it's best to think about the possible outcry if it was one of our players was on the floor like Bird and an opposition player had done what Jamie did to them? Would we all not have been up in arms asking for them to be banned and posting in a thread about how our own players health had been exposed to a possible brain/neck injury.You have to see both sides and walk in the other mans shoes so to speak.

If your disciplinary record is poor you will get hit with longer bans than someone with a better disciplinary record who has committed the same offence. Disciplinary records are always taken into when sentencing a player. Therefore you can not compare like for like. Acton has been to Red Hall 11 times in 2 years and is not learning from his mistakes.

It reminds me of the problems Alan Rathbone had with the judiciary many moons ago, and we stuck by him didn't we?

I suppose its weighing up the pros and cons. Does what a player gives when he is playing outweigh the disadvantages of playing with 12 men from time to time and the matches lost to suspension.

The Watcher would like to remind the readers of Tim Street. Always seemed to be in trouble, always seemed to be picking up bans for stupid things & then with 4/5 years left of his career, he suddenly appeared to get it & hardly got sin binned let alone sent off or banned. The Watcher believes that Acton needs to do the same very quickly if he is to turn round his time in RL, another idiot also transformed his playing style to become a good quality international, remember Richard Moore?

Spot on .. give him next season & if no improvement id say enough is enough

Did Adrian Morley ever turn it around ? Blimey he's revered throughout the RL world and Jamie, has never done a quarter of what Morley's ( sometimes) Vile tackles produced

There is something wrong with Jamie Acton, he needs banning for life, absolutely no sense whatsoever, here we have two plays involved in a collision, both laying prostrate on the ground, possible head neck injuries, and this mindless meat head does this, two concussions here, roid rage or some other hidden agenda

Strong words and opinions. What Acton did was absolutely wrong. Just to clear up an apparent misunderstanding - there were NO concussions. Reynolds suffered a nose injury and Bird passed a concussion test - which either indicates that he wasn't concussed or that Catalans' medical staff could also be 'mindless meat heads'!