Just a mistimed forearm in the face. You see this all the time in the NRL and at the most it ends with a penalty and a player being placed on report, the majority of the times the referee just tells the player to get on with it and play the ball, the video ref included .......Rugby is a contact sport believe it or not!

i reckon you are right, but also hope we are both wrong!

It's difficult to effect a tackle without extending your arms. In fact if you keep you arms down you're likely to get pinged for a shoulder charge.

It's always a dice roll with the Panel but it will be a bollox decision if they charge him at all IMO.

Charged.

What grade?

(tried to find it on the RFL website but found nothing)

Charged Grade B

That's fair enough IMO and what most fans expected, EGP, take the one match and back for the cup game.

Which challenge was this for?

Simon: Rule – 15.1(a) Detail – Striking – Strikes with arm/shoulder - reckless Grade – B

Tupou: Accidental clash of heads in the tackle. No charge.

So in the split second between you going to wrap/attack the ball carrying arm and actual point of contact the players body shifts which otherwise no contact to head would be made you are to magically defying the laws of physics and physical ability of the human brain/body and adjust the trajectory of your tackle and the momentum involved?
Well scientists have shown that reaction times of a person in motorvehicles are around 0.7 seconds at the very best to an unexpected situation. That doesn't include the motor aspect of then applying a physical part of your body.
ANY charge would be cretinous but then that partly describes the system in any case.

What annoys me is that Wakey fans are calling him a dirty player and say he had a cheap shot ,Ellis is not dirty and does not need cheap shots his tackling is hard enough to rattle players .On the video both sets of fans see it the way they want to see it,yes he clearly caught him and the law say any contact with head is foul play but was it deliberate No

My first thought on watching the video is that Ellis is probably unlucky that Simon moves down into the way of his arm, I also thought that Simon wasn't going anywhere so Ellis probably doesn't need to go in swinging his arm like that. Maybe he's trying to wrap the ball up, maybe he's trying to knock Simon to the ground who knows. Unfortunately he's caught his head and IMO is rightfully charged.

Not sure if the disciplinary webpage has been updated but it now says RANGE OF RECOMMENDED SANCTIONS IN RELATION TO CHARGED GRADE* : 1-2. Early Guilty Plea Offered and Accepted. 1 Match Suspension - See more at: www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/dis ... LQIVu.dpuf So guess w're without him for Friday?

Not sure if the disciplinary webpage has been updated but it now says RANGE OF RECOMMENDED SANCTIONS IN RELATION TO CHARGED GRADE* : 1-2. Early Guilty Plea Offered and Accepted. 1 Match Suspension - See more at: www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/dis ... LQIVu.dpuf So guess w're without him for Friday?

Best decision we could have hoped for imo, and fair enough imo. Ellis himself has admitted as much.

No Ellis next week is a blow! But I think he would have got 2 without the early plea.