He wasn't stopped and clearly the other tacklers prevent him from falling as freely with Paea's tackle. I would agree that this turns the ball carrier from sitting duck to protected species and favours the attacking team.


Was Flower's last night? I only saw the last 20 minutes. Be interesting to see it and what the panel do.

No. Flowers was against Cas the previous week.

He got penalised and sin-binned for his but not called up by disciplinary.

Link is on this thread.

rlFlowers tackle.rl

Tbf, a sin binning is a moderately harsh punishment from a team POV. Hull will be without MP for 160 minutes, but won't be playing with 12 at any point as a result of this.
I guess that Paea going off his feet might have counted against him, but I agree it's effectively the same thing. As one of Flower's went completely unpunished, it does seem inconsistent. Either they both are ban-worthy or neither is.

2 match ban is way way more punitive than a sin binning - different league. And since the tackle was made in the 79th minute I'm sure we could have lived with it.