Joels palm of his hand makes contact with Yeamans face looking at the close up and his ball carrying arm initially makes contact with his chest. If thats a ban its absolute .

A shocking incident I hope he gets 3-4 matches. FFS people freeze framing a high speed collision. The elbow rarely if ever goes up into the face of the player like that in normal play. When it does it's because there is intent.

I'm guessing you've never seen Nick Fozzard play?

Yes, it makes much more sense to show a high speed collision at normal speed where it's harder to work out what actually happens because it isn't as clear or, as is the case here, it doesn't suit your argument.
Do you remember the Sam Burgess hit on Moi Moi back in the England - NZ international a couple of years back? Burgess uses the same technique making the tackle that Joel does going into this tackle and cracks Moi Moi on the jaw. That was deemed as fair.

And your calling Sam tomkins a wimp on the other thread?

If there was intent with Joels elbow to smash Yeamans face they would still be picking up the remains of him off the pitch.

There is a very small minority of Wigan fans on here who come out with much credit at times like this by admitting a player may have done something wrong - it's always the same, sensible people too.

Joel was absolutely stupid and needs to learn a valuable lesson from this. He gets wound up far too easily and can be a liability at times and opposing teams know they can get to him and win penalties or in Sundays case get him sent off. He has a lot of talent but has started off this season poorly imo and needs to step up.

He'd be one of the first names on my teamsheet EVERY Week.

I'm not sure about the incident as I didn't get a great view. It "looked" stupid from where I was sat, but then you can never tell. Hopefully video evidence will show that first contact was on the arm.

However, why did Lockers agree to allow JT to take the ball in from the penalty in the first place? Madness.

Failing this why didn't some of the senior players stand up and prevent it? e.g. Hoffman?

Whenever something like that happens and both players remain on the pitch, the person involved almost always takes the ball in first.

Only if they are calm in the "head" department.

Bang on for me too. Maybe we should have a team full of fairies the way some people are shooting him down.

Did they ban Ablett for that hit on sam last year? If they didnt (which i dont remember them doing) then they cant fairly ban Joel. One rule for acts commited by wigan one for acts against Wigan.

Ablett got three matches.

Did he? I cudda sworn people were on here moaning that he didnt. Either way it went unpunished card wise on the pitch and was much worse so surely joel should get no more than 1 match.