Obviously you don't/didn't, or you wouldn't have said

They did pick up on the Bowen one they just decided not to ban him.

I'm not arguing that point, but the ref's lack of backbone has absolutely no bearing on the disciplinary process after the game, which you quite clearly stated it did.

But neither the ref or the panel dared to ban bowen! But if the ref reported it they would have given him a ban.

What planet are you on?

they wouln't have & didn't. The ref didn't place it on report, it still got looked at & no ban. Whether it was on report or not makes not one bit of difference.

I think it does..there's hitting someone high by accident & there's nearly taking another players head off resulting in them been stretchered off & is the penalty sufficient right for both types? Any high shot should be dealt with by a ref in the game its commited in imo.

Obviously, but you are wrong.

What you think and what actually happens are 2 totally different things.

I agree with this but lets be honest putting something 'on report' isn't dealing with anything. Its a waste of time & a cop-out for the refs.

Spot on. If the ref puts someone on report he must have seen something so it is just a cop out.

It is now that every , allegedly , game is scrutinised afterwards anyway. It's just a way of appeasing the spectators of the team "sinned against" rather than doing nothing other than giving a penalty. Each game is now effectively "on report" and that is the RFL making a huge rod for their own back. Surely if a player commits a bad foul which gets missed in a game it will be cited by someone afterwards. Where there is an incident in a game that is missed and there is no reaction from the opposing players , coaches , press etc then it can't be that bad so why is it necessary for Ganson and co to pore over the game looking for something that no one cares about. The Paea incident seemed to me to go unnoticed by everyone at the time? If the review panel were just looking at incidents that the ref wasn't sure about where there's no video ref at the game and incidents that are flagged as having been missed and are cited by someone later then the on report system has a place. As it is it's nothing more than theatre or pantomime more like!

It would seem that this 'on report' mullarkey is also affecting the NRL,the tackle that has just hospitalised Alex McKinnon was put 'on report'