MM does need to be careful though or he'll start making a reputation for himself, a la Newton. Being aggressive is fine, but it needs to be controlled...

Agree.

agreed thats what I posted before. The Wigan tv looks like he ducked a bit, but the reaction of the players and fans seems to say otherwise and they were closer and on the same side. The wigan tv angle doesnt show much.

Are you saying Cas expected someone to get taken out? And that they only expect this when playing against Wigan? Are you saying every team in SL expects to have a player taken out when playing Wigan? Or are you just having a pop at Wigan - again?

There's a lot playing judge, jury and executioner on here. Glad some of you aren't on the judiciary panel. Just let them deal with it and do your whinging and moaning afterwards.

At the end of the day the game is often played at lightning pace and every single player goes into every single tackle to stop the opposition players, many try to dominate and "hurt" the opponent albeit usually legally. who are we to judge if these tackles often cross a line, we'd all cheer on the terraces at a huge but fair hit yet many whinge and moan when a tackle strays high or is mistimed. We as fans can't possibly judge on wether a player has deliberately tried to hurt or injure another player. I love a player who has a bit of mongrel in them, a player who is not scared to stick up for themselves ala Newton and Mickey. Where I do draw the line is when a player does what Elima did the other week something that I'm glad to say mickey could never be accused of. At he opposite end of the scale imagine how boring the game would be if we had 34 David Hodgsons turning out week in week out.

It's hardly happening far too often. Pretty sure he's only been banned twice in his professional career.

Thank you JJ and Vectrabeast for making two excellent posts on this matter... Thats shocked you both... lol

Quote: Cherry.Pie "It's hardly happening far too often. Pretty sure he's only been banned twice in his professional career.'" Been called up over 20 times though. Almost all on high/ careless/ dangerous/ late challenges www.therfl.co.uk/disciplinary?pl ... tartrow=25

Quote: Cherry.Pie "It's hardly happening far too often. Pretty sure he's only been banned twice in his professional career.'" Been called up over 20 times though. Almost all on high/ careless/ dangerous/ late challenges www.therfl.co.uk/disciplinary?pl ... tartrow=25

Going off the current set up if you got called up twenty times you'd have had twenty bans.

Some players are being cited numerous times in one game. In Sundays game Pettybourne had 2 or 3 incidents that were looked at for example.

He already has a reputation as a thug

3 match ban and £300 fine from RFL on twitter

Sounds fair enough. Only surprise is that we'd decided to contest it because it rarely works out well doing that.

Which is why I said in my first post (that certain people got uppity about) he was involved in "incidents" - in fact I haven't even said he's done anything wrong. I understand aggression can be mistaken for dirty, mistiming for malicious etc. But these incidents do keep occurring around mm more than average. Compare the citings to that of Jon Wilkin (who has a reputation as a "dirty player"icon_wink.gif and it's near double.

Anyway 3 games and a fine. Onwards and upwards. Interesting he didn't use the egp? Is he thinking he'll need it later?

An EGP would still have ruled him out of Wire away. Must have thought it was worth a shot. Obviously not!