Thank goodness for the Review Panel whose ‘expertise ‘ will be able to settle any difference of opinion that exists !

It happened right in front of me and it was as bad as it looked! Higson collected the ball and finished by sliding on his backside facing upwards. The culprit was actually Leueui (not Ah Van, sorry Alan) who dropped across Higson's unprotected throat with his forearm - an absolute cheap shot.

What was more concerning to me was that Thaler was only a few feet away from the incident and - from what I could see - appeared to have a clear view of it. Moreover, he blew immediately the blow was delivered (in my view he saw it as a serious offence). However, as we know, Thaler ducked the decision but if the culprit had been Gaz or Jamie Acton, I wonder what he would have done?

(The incident can be seen at 29mins 15 secs in on the recording available on the OurRL app btw).

The replay after the incident shows what happened, contact is with Higson's left arm. There is no contact with the throat whatsoever. The commentators get it just about bang on.

If you pause it on contact you can see that Higson's injury probably occurs as it ends up as a bit of an accidental crusher tackle where higson's head is stuck between the widnes players body and his right arm. At full speed that is a total accident and didn't warrant the reaction it got from the Leigh players.

I suggest you take your spectacles next time, Higson was hit on the arm, anything after was accidental.

No problem '71leyther'.I was near the middle of the West stand, and my eyesight is bad enough without drizzle on me specs. Let's see what the review panel come up with, and settle for that. Like I said, there were plenty of 'robust' challenges from both sides, for the panel to look at!

I don't know how high the shot on Higson was, but it was definitely late enough to be considered unnecessary, avoidable and pretty cheap.

Late in what sense?

I didn't think there was much in the higson incident watching it on tv,looked like it was the widnes players hip that caught his head but very surprised thaler didn't sin bin anyone from widnes for dissent.3 free kick on the bounce for dissent but he soon sent off Brooks when he last reffed us

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Watching live (can't bring myself to watch again), it looked like it was grounded before the challenge came in, and wasn't really any attempt at doing anything bar ground the ball, so didn't really need the flop.

If it had been the other way around, I'd have been annoyed at the player for turning a forced GLDO into a conceded penalty.

The player only has a split second to make that decision and Im sure for certain he could not see a clear attempt to ground the ball. I think he is more than entitled to make that tackle and has to play to the whistle.

Having seen it on LCTV, I'm inclined to agree with you. (just this once!

) I'm off to Specsavers tomorrow!!

I always try and call it as it is.