That poor decision could come back to haunt us !!

At last someone gets it right in all three paragraphs.

If anyone cares to watch it again try turning your volume up and you will hear Bentham call ONE and MOVE (as stated no need to call held) and the fact he shouts move means that a player had at least a hand on Escare and that's enough to constitute a completed tackle.

Difficult one.At normal speed the tackling player doesn't move off the tackle instantly and similarly Escaré doesn't react instantly to call believing he can still progress.

I'm sorry but it seems like the majority agree with myself and Phil Bentham, which would in fact suggest you're wrong.



BINGO!

I have thought about this too. Coincidental that we've looked a much better team without Gaz Hock? Possibly, but in both games we've played since (Hull FC and Catalan) both were very close and needed plenty of spirit to get us through which we managed. I don't think we would have won them with Hock in the team.

We bumped into Bentham and the officials in a bar after the game.

He explained to us that a if a player is still in a standing position and moves off the mark after held is called then the player is asked to go back and the play the ball, as its difficult for that player to know when they are actually held if they don’t hear the call.

In Escare’s case he explained that because the players ball carrying arm had hit the floor and there was a player on him, the tackle was indeed complete and the player should have known it was complete and therefore cannot get back up and run away.

If Escare was tackled by Lee in the same way near the try line and decided to reach over and score it quite rightly would have been a penalty for a double movement and he wouldn’t have just been asked to the play the ball again. Escare was held and decided to get up and run, therefore the penalty was correct. Cummings made the wrong call on sky.

You'll get 7 matches for that.