He is lucky it was deemed reckless as its clearly intentional the consistancy is an issue however it is no justification for his actions and its not an excuse for a shorter ban. I have watched it a few times and it looks worse each time.

ask a non rl fan to watch it and ask how long the ban should be you will struggle to find people saying less than 4.

WTF are you talking about? What a bizarre statement.

lol yep ive shown it to few ppl and they av all said between 5 n 8 none of them were wigan fans so suppose its a bit unfair lol

3 game ban is disgraceful when you consider Ryan Bailey got the same punishment because the ref got in his way!!

Haha! I forgot about that. That's actually hilarious.

i look forward to the same severity of refereeing and disciplinary for the rest of the season,

i think MM basically got 1 match ban for the hit and two more matches for the stupidity and openness of it - if he'd disguised it a little more he would have been playing afterthe catalan game.

Mcllorum should have got 7 games minimum if you go on the basis that the Bailey punishment was fair!! But then again Paul Wood got no ban for punching Carl Ablett in the face completely unprovoked, so god knows how the disciplinary committee works!!

Baileys punishment was the same as Rangi Chase's in the CC against Fev. Dont know how all 3 of those 'crimes' can have the same penalty!!

In reality i think it should have been:

Bailey - Warning
Wood - 3 game ban
Mcllorum - 3 game ban
Chase - 6 game ban

I remember Hock getting a 5 game ban for grabbing the ref's arm.

tbf to Bailey he ran into the ref accidentally, whilst Hocks was a delibrate contact with the ref.

Why avoid the question?

Most people would now agree that MM was stupid and deserved a ban. The question is whether the incident should have gone on report to be delt with later as has been the case in most off the ball fouls.
This case now questions the video ref and when he can intervene. The RL say he can only adjudicate in try award decisions when asked by the referee, but it is clear in this case that the video ref (Ganson) sent MM off. Mr Child and the two touch judges were willing to allow play on.
If a video ref can now advise the match referee why is this not being made clear by the governing body. If the video ref now has more power to control a match then all matches must have cameras and a VR, we now have two standard of games, ones that are on Sky and those not. We don't have a level playing field.
If a try is allowed when it is clear to the video ref that an infringement has taken place why does he not advise the ref aka the Hardacre for Leeds during the CC semi-final after a clear knock on by Maguire.
Untill the RL make a statement to clarify this issue then we will get more calls of bias and corruption in our game.

I wasn't even close to being an attempt at a "tackle", he deliberately went to do him, its a 3 game ban and rightly so. He's let the team, the fans and the club down.

and that sums it up in one simple sentence