The second one looked accidental to me but the first one happened in a different orbit so can't comment on it.

I'll reserve judgement until I've watched Fulltime later - it happened very quickly and was impossible to judge at the time.

If Mathers went in with the knees, he deserves to be dealt with; the difficulty with it though, is that tackles over the line are never pretty and it's a regular occurrence to see players using whatever body part they can to prevent the ball being grounded.

Either way, I hope both players are ok and for his own sake, I wish Mr Sandercock would learn the appropriate place and time to air his views.

Does it count as an injury at work that was not his own fault? If so hudgel could be quids in!

Mathers has apologised to Horne on twitter, saying he was just trying to kick the ball out. Horne says everything is ok, just a shiner and wishes Richie best of luck.

Ironically says the person who cannot read properly.





Cheers lads, it's obviously not good to see any player injured.

Mathers has always done it, as did a lot of the Leeds team around that 2004-2006 period. Dirty barsterwards. FWIW, the 2nd one did look accidently, not seen the first, but the cheap shots after a players scored need to be clamped down on.

Not keen on fullbacks using knees/feet as attacker goes to score either but if people are going to take issue with it they should look at players such as Tomkins, Billy slater etc because alot of fullbacks do it, it's hardly an isolated incident

Now I've seen the incidents on sky he has no case to answer.
He was going for ball on one and was trying to jump out of the way on other.
Horne said he was ok with it on Twitter.

Agree just posted this on another topic. Just watched the Mathers incident, nothing in them at all imo, he tried to kick the ball out when HKR kicked through but caught Horne, 50/50 incident and was within his right to go for the ball. The second one is nothing at all and I'm surprised anything has been made of it, HKR player scored and Mathers jumped over him and caught the players arm trying to avoid him.

They went in on Fox after his try at the end of the 1st half

Aye but nothing really in that either, just too late to prevent the try.

Sanderc*ck also says Fox was offside for his try.
Well I watched Suprleague Fulltime last night and you can clearly see Fox is way onside.

I don't expect he will come out and apologise or take his comments back tho'.