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Dont talk e. Any high tackle like that should be treated the same, no excuses.

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There were two high tackles by Wakefield players against Catalan on Saturday. Neither were sent off. Damien Blanche looked concussed as a result of one of them. Platt was the culprit for the other one and the ref could be heard saying to him that he was lucky he caught the shoulder first or he could have walked. In the Huddersfield/Leeds game Kirke received a hight shot for which O'Donnell incorrectly received his marching orders. I'm sure there must have been many more high shots over the weekend.

Of course every incident is different.

What you can say though is that any player who deliberately strikes another player to the head should be sent off.

That effectively is a minimum punishment because the disciplinary tribunal will then decide whether to impose a ban and what the length of it should be.

What we can say is that what happened to Lima is a B-C grade offence according to the sentencing guidelines, which should result in a ban of 1-3 games. Just being punished by a penalty seems insufficient....

I listen in on a scanner to the referee, tough judges and video ref.

When MickyMac hit the tackle, the linesman said it was ok, then when the player did not get up, the ref stopped play and walked over to see what had gone on. Then, even though he had not been asked, Ganson shouted down the referee's ear,

'he made direct contact with the head, Direct Contact James, DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE HEAD'
It was obvious straight away that Ganson wanted him red carded and from that comment alone, Mr Child sent him off.

At half time, the ref was chatting to the touch judges and said, ' really did not see anything as I was blind sided, but Gans said there was direct contact so I thought I should send him off'

Whatever happened to the video ref saying nothing until asked, did we not learn that lesson when Ganson and Klein cocked up that grand final?
The RFL constantly deny that the fourth official or Video ref says anything, but after listening to them for the last few seasons you would be astonished at what is said.
Just watch on any TV game when the touch judges come in for a chat and don't actually say anything, the ref wll then say to them, yes, so you say he needs a card/penalty/castration....... and they all nod as the video ref has his say on proceedings that he has no right to comment on.

The day that the RFL make the referee's/ touch judges and vid ref's comments available to everyone by broadcasting them like other sports do, is the day that we can start to trust what is going on. Until then, the game is fixed and if I did not love my club, I would seriousley wonder why my money goes into such a crooked game.

Interesting. You have verified what we all suspected at the time and that is Ganson sent him off.Ganson is a Saints' fan so he should not be in that position. Most Wigan fans agree that he should have been sent off but to have a Saints' fan as video ref is just not on.

Fascinating stuff from captaindan.

I know Sky avoided showing the incident in their half time coverage, which seems very odd given that it was the most important event in the game.

This is not good at all. Conspiracy theories and allegations about games being fixed are inevitable unless the decision making process is transparent. The RL must get this out into the open and quickly, otherwise people will inevitably conclude that the game is crooked.

I'm pretty sure players have cottoned on that if they feel they've been fouled, and the ref appears not to have spotted it, they go/stay down, so play is stopped long enough for the VR to take a look.

I hate the thought of conspiracy theories and agendas but I have heard too much first hand not to believe it.
I have honestly walked out of big games heartbroken, not because we have lost but because of the way it would seem to be manipulated so the powers at red hall get their own teams pushed forward and keep Wigan ( and others) down.

You feel let down and there is nothing to be done about it as any letter sent to rfl or Cummings gets thoroughly ignored.

But who are we, we only pay for the game.

Our only hope is transparency from the rfl. Instead, they have changed the referees radios to a scrambled digital signal to try and hide what is going on.
I don't mean to bring everyone down with this, it's just how it is.

Not wishing to doubt you CaptDan but how did you listen if it was a digital scrambled radio?

When sky are in town, they use the system to fold it into the video ref and tv sound. If you tune in, you hear the ref, touch judges and video ref on open intercom.

When the digital scrambler is used, it is relatively simple to unscramble as there are only half a dozen or so scrambler formats. So a decent decoding scanner can pick up the signal and decode it.