Although trying to work out exactly what the logic behind the disciplinary procedures and panel is rather like trying to knit fog... they seem to be undervaluing and underplaying the spear tackle.

On the pitch you now get done for a spear tackle if the legs come over the horizontal, which has resulted in some harsh penalties. But once it gets to the disciplinary procedure we're seeing some horrible ones, like Lunt's get one match or nothing at all. Dave Taylor has been dropping people on their head for weeks and only copped one match.

Similarly, since that Fanny Maguire nonsense with Sneyd last season, any sort of contact around the knees and what have you is massively over punished, resulting in that ridiculous charge for Watts after Wigan. You are meant to tackle low down at the end of the day, but because there's been a couple of high profile injuries they're now punishing perfectly good tackles.

Of course, all of this goes out of the window when somebody gets injured. If Watts had broken his neck on Sunday, which he could easily have done having been deliberately turned upside down and driven into the turf well after the ball had gone, then no doubt Lunt would have got six to eight games, but because he was lucky and didn't get hurt he only gets one. Which is a farce in itself - look at Ellis last season, really bad injury with nobody near him. Shouldn't be in consideration when looking at these things.

On the secret forum, a certain poster has suggested there players have a Kitty set up and pay out to whoever gets taylor to "leave the field on a stretcher". This is apparently due to his "vicious premeditated assault" on Minns.
I'll just leave that here. But anyone who fancies a gander, its under the title "cheating thug taylor"

Was it RBA? Said the best we could hope for this year would be pinching 8th spot off Rovers, so similar level of balance.

Just had a look, it appears that the thread has dissapeared, strange that...

It paid off, they scored in this one and kept us to below 50 points.