Throughout last season and this the third man in the tackle has been part of Wigan's tackle tactics. Now all clubs tackle that way.
As for the RFL suggesting that Clarkson was held, how would Lima know that? A player is only held when the referee calls "held". Silverwood hadn't called held. At the point of impact with the ref not calling held Clarkson could have offloaded the ball.
So now are we to have two "helds" in the game?
One called by the referee and some imaginary "held" known only by the RFL disciplinary to be used retrospectively.
This is a rule that has not been thought through but rushed in and is now bringing the game into disrepute!
They are making it up as they go along!

Is anyone shocked at this point?

Nope. Not shocked.

I fully expect a two match ban and maximum fine. This is a classic case of 'making an example'

Didnt Michael Shenton get sin-binned for the same thing 2 weeks ago? Was he cited?

To be fair, without seeing the Shenton incident it's impossible to comment on whether or not he should have been cited.

I was just wondering whether he was cited

the only people who are saying that it wasnt a bad tackle is wigan fans(it will be yet another conspiracy by red hall against you i bet) it could have finish a young players career would like to hear the reaction if it had happend to tomkin, cos the crap you went on about when ablett got a ban was unreal. take off the rose tinted glasses and take a step back and think it was a bad tackle take it like "MEN" and move on to your next game......

Yes he was charged sin bin sufficient.

Five posts in and his most active topic is 'The Tomkins Brothers'.

Was last Friday your first game then?

You picked a bad time to suddenly start following Leeds.

The whole thing really does stink - are Wigan really "dirtier" than a host of other teams?

If Lima is banned then that will be 4 suspensions for Wigan players already this season (Lima, Joel and Sam so far), whereas other teams have had relatively few ( 1 or 2 max) and Warrington none - despite Carvell's apparent late and head high challenge that resulted in Dureau being taken to hospital.

The RFL are a joke! Just as they were last season when Morley and Carvell were let off for apparently awful challenges the week before the Wigan game and Senior and Peacock were let off after the CC Q/F for assaults on Joel/Sam. Then Coley is banned for a clumsy but in no way malicious challenge against Catalans - suspended for the Warrington home game - surprise surprise!

I hope the alleged rumours that the Hetheringtons and Tony Smith having a massive influence on the RFL are unfounded.

The end result of the tackle looked worse as unfortunately Clarkson fell awkwardly/the wrong way. There are several/numerous 3 man tackles carried out by most teams in most games - it's called effective defence - 2 upstairs and 1 down below to stop the legs and get the player onto the ground. Lima and others had already made such tackles in the game and there was no problem - neither was there with Clarkson. It just looked a lot worse because of the way he fell and then half the Leeds team came running and shouting. Neither Silverwood nor the touch judge had deemed it to be a dirty tackle before this.

The bottom line is Clarkson wasn't injured - so it couldn't have been that "dirty" a tackle! Unlike poor Dureau against Carvell......

There was a very similar tackle in the Wire game. Micky Mac came in and clamped the legs, Briers came running in complaining to try and get a penalty, which caused the comotion going off the pitch at half time. No penalty was given and the match review panel had no problem with it either

Lee Briers in 'trying any trick in the book, no matter how underhanded' shocker.

The bottom line is Clarkson wasn't injured - so it couldn't have been that "dirty" a tackle! Unlike poor Dureau against Carvell......'"