Sending off wasn't sufficient - we still won the game.

Ridiculous decision.

I don't think we have ever won one of these when Grahame Hallas has been on the panel!

Can they extend it, if it is already at the maximum for the grade?

And we wonder why fans of most clubs have no faith in the clowns at Red Hall. The only person I've heard agree it was a red card was Gary Schofield on Radio Yorkshire on Monday night. I've not spoken to anyone who thinks it wasn't harsh, and most of us on casforum think it was harsh aswell. Should have been 'no further action, sorry for being idiots'! Ridiculous decision. If most of the opposition fans, the player involved, and the coach thought Watts was hard done by then what incident were the panel watching?? It's Hicks that should have picked up a ban for trying to impersonate a referee! Absolute garbage for both teams, he doesn't know what he's doing! And we have the idiot again this Saturday against Wigan!

It's nothing more than the RFL backing Hicks who at best I'd constantly incompetent. If that scenario is repeated again I'll bet there's no red card. As for Child's well there's nothing you can say. We are all aware now how it'll go this week. If we win it will be in spite of him being in charge.
Never mind throwing money at teams to buy marquee players. Why not invest some in the officials. We need two refs on the pitch( obviously never Child's and Hicks together). That might help. In their defence there's too much going on fir one ref to deal with. Mind you it was never going to work once the lunatic had taken over the asylum was it.
It needs sorting because this is where the game is beginning to lose its appeal.
Everyone of us knows that mistakes can be made. It's up to the RFL to minimise not excuse them..
The chairmen and club owners must act.

The latest and most disgraceful example of a completely corrupt disciplinary process. The sport is a joke from top to bottom and TBH I've about had enough. Results are now a lottery based as much on the match officials and disciplinary committee as they are on the squad.

Hull might as well appeal but we'll get nothing from it. It's clear that for whatever reason we have targets painted on us this season. Maybe we upset the apple cart by winning the CC last year. Who knows.

Thanks for coming on here and posting that.

At times it just reads like FC fans with chips on their shoulders so to know the opposition feel the same is comforting.

Sorry to hear you have got Hicks again this weekend but hope you win.

The appeal can alter the grading - so theoretically yes they can increase the sentence.

Thanks for the comments. Regarding you having Hicks again - bad luck, but we'll be no better off as Hull have Child to ruin things.

Think your post is how just about everyone else saw it and has seen it and even when the opposing coach, player himself and opposing fans think it harsh then that kinda sums up the RFL & the Disciplinary Panel.

The decision for me smacks of them blindly backing the ref and sweeping his inability under the carpet. This again adds to the fuel of the total lack of transparency in the officials and the workings behind the scenes meaning they are yet again unaccountable for their poor decision making and officiating from so called 'Pro' Officials. They are making the sport a joke.

The fact that Ganson has become the Ring Master just beggars belief as the officials are very much Gansonesque. The sport has moved on so much since turning Pro its ludicrous that the officials are not much better than they were back as Amateur Officials. The RFL and the officials themselves have to realise now they are so called full time Professionals they should be accountable but they still seem to think its acceptable as if they are still Amateur's.

On a side note Hicks is again reffing Cas this shouldn't be allowed to happen where a Ref officates a game containing one of the teams he officiated in last time.

The RFL need to look at themselves when asking why the sport is struggling to grow.