Fair enough... still a big ban...got a red card and we are out of the cup...plenty of punishment.

returns 23rd may away at st helens - boooooooooooo

Will he not return the week before v Bradford?

Now it's all over and I can be spared the saints fans baying for blood-and This is purely an observation about the man not the tackle- can I just say..... How blooming strong is Brett to be able to lift a guy over by his chest like that!

I think 5 is about right TBH. 4-5 is what I expected.

i said 4 would be the minimum but i expected more, don't think anyone can argue with 5 match ban

let's just hope they are consistent now and give similar bans to similar offences ( yes i know that is expecting too much)

Absolutely agree. I think 5 is about right but the most important thing is that this is now used as the Benchmark for bans for similar offences. It's the lack of consistency when dishing out bans and the lack of consistency in refereeing that drive me more mad than anything else about the game.

true, the inconsistency is very frustrating!
i think in every game of ours this year i have seen more inconsistent and poor refereeing than i have in the previous 5 years!
it needs sorting, not because my team seem to be on the end of a lot of poor refereeing and inconsistency but because i am a rugby league fan and i want the standards to improve for the benefit of the game as a whole.

i even get frustrated watching games on tv with the poor officiating.

as a team we make it to easy for ref to do us the Gerry welsh penalty for example welsh pushes Gerry as soon as Gerry pushes him back it gives Bentham the opportunity to do him the next penalty a classic giants 5th tackle in no danger lets do something daft soon afterwards Ferris again on the 5th in no danger stops the move brain stops working.after seeing it again it was a slow he had plenty of time to stop 5 games ok by me
we just need to be smarter

At the time I'm writing this, the RFL disciplinary committee website doesn't show the decision or any reasons for the punishment given, so I can't be sure, but it seems to me that they probably saw the tackle the same way as I did. 5 games seems fair to me.

5 matches is fair. However after the McKinnon incident I thought the disciplinary might have wanted to send a message out and given him the full 8. So he's lucky in that respect.

HE has effectively got 6 because Ref Hall always seem to accept a red card is one game.

No complaints from me about the ban

For those of you not on Twitter, Ferres has tweeted an apology to Jonny Lomax for the tackle, saying he would never intentionally set out to hurt someone, that he is glad Lomax is ok and that he has accepted his punishment. He has also tweeted a separate apology to his team mates, the club's staff and fans for undermining his team's chances of winning the game.

yes sorry forgot about that one!

I love it when I stand behind the sticks at away games when you can see how far and fast that sidestep takes him, and he's a top bloke too.

tromso, watch it again and keep your eyes closely on Lomaxs' legs.