Sorry, I forgot about your goodself, post above edited accordingly.

Well done. Your still a bell end.

I wonder if we'd have had the same reaction if a london prop had knocked danny houghton out with a shoulder charge which connected with houghton's head?

Slightly different......you'd have still had 24 pages of X-file style conspiracy thread bollox, but it would have been on the London boards.......Oh and the London prop would have got 3 games

If that was exactly the same shot on Houghton I personally would have said good shot and let's get on with it. Much like the vast majority did with the Welham hit on Reece pre-season. If it's going to be a red card every time someone gets a shoulder charge slightly wrong then they should just outlaw it and remove all doubt it. One thing that's for certain is that we will see similar and worse tackles this season that will go unpunished

That would depend on whether the contact with his head occurred as a result of his last minute change of direction or not.

The decision to plead guilty was moronic. I'd rather there had been a not guilty plea and more matches. He should never have been sent off, and by pleading guilty it's basically accepting that the RFL would have shat on us and saying that we'll just put up with this state of affairs.

I can pretty much put money on the fact that there will be no consistency with this decision. I can also put money on the fact that those who have said he should have been sent off will be saying something totally different when one of their players is sent off for the same thing.. if indeed they are even sent off

We won't be flavour of the month with the RFL. We're not Leeds for starters and look rubbish after the Gleeson thing. You have to pick your battles with an organisation as inept as them and maybe we decided this wasn't one worth losing points over.

I do all the time..

When Ryan Bailey is of no use to the Rhinos anymore & ends up playing for Batley/Dewsbury i guarantee he be banned every other week for the stuff he gets away with now.

Did James Rule represent him at the hearing?

Anyway, let's move on. No point in appealing the sentence if the RFL can increase it.

There's no point in appealing the sentence because we were dumb enough to plead guilty to a charge we've spent the last 48 hours denying.

The full case notes should make interesting reading when published.

Your opinion of the tackle may not have changed, but it now seems to differ 100% than that of:
The Player, The Club and the Diciplinary Board.......I doubt anyone, even Listy, needs childish attempts at point scoring given the player has received and accepted his additional punishment, although it would appear that you'd now feel better if you could secure the moral high ground