Quote: Northern Giant "I wouldn't disagree with that. It was a bad tackle, but given that the McKinnon tackle only resulted in 7 games I doubt the RFL will give him 8. It's a bit of an odd one, because most spear tackles that I can remember seeing didn't result in a red card and didn't receive as much attention. Whatever they decide I hope that they show consistency from now on and all tackles like it are treated the same both on the field and in the disciplinary.'"
100% there needs to be a lot more consistency from the top but spear tackle A May be quite different to spear tackle B so should have room to judge.
What made this one worse IMO was the way first contact was a good hold round the waist but then lifted and even drove down, most others tend to be be a low contact with the defending player low getting higher whist with some sot of control of the attacking players legs resulting in the head first spear tackle
I always consider ferres a rough player but not dirty and would say there was no malice in what he did.
Couple of comments on points below, I don't like players asking for cards I think the holding down on Walsh was very very close to being a professional foul and 10 minutes but that is the refs call, not the players.the way wellens can act towards the ref at times can be embarrassing for the whole club
I was one of the fans cheering when the red got given and I stand by it it was one of the worst tackles I have seen for years, I didn't think the ref would have had the bottle to show it and was glad ... But teddypicker have you ever seen a red card given to a player where the other set of fans did nothing? I haven't there's always a reaction
