grade a dangerous contact

13 players banned in total. There'll be no game left soon. I feel sorry for HKR even though we will benefit from them losing 2 players to bans. They were already down to bare bones and have now lost another 2 players.

The winner of this weeks RFL bingo between Knowles, Sironen and Matautia is Knowles. They take it in turns each week it seems.

I'm surprised Mago hasn't been banned from reading reports.

Terrible isn’t it, luckily I don’t think there will be silly bans come play off time (fingers crossed!). What’s more concerning is that Tanginoa from Wakey has been slapped with a 3 game ban; surely such a ban would be worthy of a card during the 80 minutes?!

Seen a Toulouse player's got a Grade F, (other contrary behaviour) only listened to bits of the game on the radio so don't know what that one's about

The annoying thing about that is that Mago was binned fir for a crusher tackle for a Wakefield player staying down. The referee was stood by the tackle and gave nothing. The touchie who was 40 yards away gave the decision. Soon after Tanganoa twisted Harry Smiths leg. Smith who was obviously in discomfort got up to play the ball, same touchie did nothing. We are encouraging players to cheat.

He allegedly did a John Hopoate....

No arguments about an "F" then

13 players banned is just crazy. Something needs to give here. Pile games up for the players, meaning injuries come in droves and then throw bans around like confetti. The game IMO is improving in quality. It’s slow progress but teams seem to be getting good coaches in place and clubs are showing ambition but the administration of the sport is as poor as I can remember.

Exactly. You watch a game like Salford v Hudds, and think, this is good stuff. But in a massively physically demanding sport, we shoot ourselves in the foot time after time. Offences should be dealt with at the time (I really don't like the whole putting on report thing, it just smacks to me of the ref saying, there might have been foul play there, but I'm not sure, so I'll let the judiciary look at it". But aurely they look at everything anyway, whether or not the ref sees it?) as far as possible. And red cards should be reserved for serious foul play

If anyones watched the SL show highlights I’m not sure how Mago got away with putting Hall into a seated position and dropping on him for a textbook crusher. Love how the notes say Hall slips and inconclusive footage yet it’s clear as day lol. A lot round me thought Mago was lucky not to see a straight red.


Anyway, he was a real handful and I’m glad he’s in for you against Toulouse who I hope you smash so us trin fans can rest easy!

As for Tanginoa. I’m split on it. There doesn’t appear any intent on watching it and it simply looks like he tries to pull Smith down and to the side by his waist and he ends up falling awkward. The thing that probably goes against Tanginoa is he loses his legs so probably has added weight. It’s something you see now and again yet rarely gets penalised but I think the reason the panel are getting keen now on it is that the NRL are starting to crack down in it. Think 3 games is very harsh though but think it’s more lazy by Tanginoa. If they’re going to start penalising players pulling others down by the waist then there’ll be a number of cards coming weekly.

Anyway, please rip Toulouse to shreds. Hopefully Field has managed to find his way out of Millers pocket and scores 10 try’s lol.

He's done what's known as the Hopoate