100% agree with this and the comments regarding the nrl this is the sort of challenge SBW built his career on brilliant when done correctly which I believe this challenge was. However knowing the RFL a ban would surprise me to be honest.

Nice to see the southern softies on the forum backing the sending off decision using their zero knowledge about RL rules and seeming to be reading rules books on rugby onion.

Everyone knows it was a fair challenge think Silverwood only sent him off so you didnt get 40+ put past you again better luck next week.

Watched it again, was even more awesome!! Dumb & Dumber on sky make it worse by getting hysterical, tarts!, no way should shoulder barges be banned from League...

m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri= ... XgobIO2g50 I think the above link says everything...... Awesome hit big Sam!! Keep it up, a more aggressive hull fc is what we want/like to see

m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri= ... XgobIO2g50 I think the above link says everything...... Awesome hit big Sam!! Keep it up, a more aggressive hull fc is what we want/like to see

Silverwood would need three spare whistles if he ref'd a Aussie game because he'd keep blowing the peas out of them.

Sorry but your wrong, its's only illegal if the player was on the floor.It is however illegal in Union.

Haven't watched the game on sky yet but did Silverwood actually award a penalty as the incident occurred because I thought play continued until he realised that Rinaldi wasn't getting up.

You are quite correct. As Sam had dropped on the loose ball he was heading for a position in the broncos defensive line, but stopped when he saw Rinaldi was injured.

I wasn't very happy when Silverwood brandished the red last night but would have understood it a littlemore if he had produced it in a more timely manner. He seemed to take an age to make the decision which suggests to me that he was viewing replays on the big screen or was taking some guidence from Bentham.

I persoanlly don't like shoulder charges and would like to see us go down the rah rah route where players need to make an attempt at a tackle. That been said I thought it was a clean hit and the fact that Ranaldi was laying face down on the turf probably influenced Silverwood decision somewhat. If Rinaldi had managed to get straight to his feet it wouldn't even have been a penalty.

Just before he gives the red card you can hear him talking as if he is getting instructions from someone that it should be a red card. He hadn't even given a penalty at that point.

Bentham gave the decision, no doubt.

totally agree Paul, Silverwood was about to let play go on until he realised Rinaldi was not moving, it was only after Bentham chirped in his ear that he sent Moa off and gave uins a penalty

A tricky one, if it was a Hull player on the receiving end, I would have been shouting for the offender to be "off, off, off". Trying to take the black and white out of it is too hard. I didn't realise the VR was Bentham, he would have been making up for mistakes made the night before.

i thought the video ref was ganson

Agree Paul it was clearly a decision made upstairs. However Silverwood's overall performance was infuriating. He seemed to allow London to a take a penalty twice in the 1st half after the initial attempt was fumbled, then in the 2nd he allowed Witt to get up from being tackled, run off and then go back to play the ball. Not to mention him allowing that windy prop forward to attempt two high shots without a word being said to him.