Agreed. If it's that bad a tackle it wouldn't take ten minutes for the VR to see.

Perhaps the problem is that "sending off" is *usually* too harsh a punishment?

How about this?

Jones gets red carded and leaves the field for the duration of the match.
After 10 minutes, Smith substitues Jones in the normal way.
After the match, Jones is automatically summoned to the RFL for further punishment.

So it acts like a Yellow Card but the offending player can play no further part in that match.

Thoughts?

Fredtosspot has it spot on there.

He was told not to challenge therefore i cannot understand how ganson can say he didnt see enough of the challenge if he had the foresight to tell ablett not to challenge.

Im not comfortable with this - A player goes to the bin for a foul theyve committed which in the refs mind he is certain merits such a punishment or like Andy Coley did being the next offender after a warning by the ref to the captain that the team are giving away too many pens.

Putting something on report doesnt/ shouldnt imply guilt - plenty of items referred dont see any further action taken - so to put a player in the bin whilst a conflab goes on in the stand is punishing a team during a game where a ref is uncertain of the degree of foul play or even if any has taken place

Sorry to sound like a lawyer and i can see how the Ablett tackle got people thinking about the video ref - but the only alternative is back to the pre report days of the early 90s .

What about leaving him on the field then but still having the "conflab" on whether to send him off? Personally I can't get over that Phil Bentham clearly (he was heard on the Sky coverage) got involved to send Andy Coley off at Catalans but didn't get involved this time. Why didn't he? He can't have looked at that and deemed it ok surely when he advised the Coley one to be a red card?