Pretty sure Paul Woods once copped a eight or nine match ban after getting sent off playing for Wales - all the games missed were Hull games.

Absolutely but it's pointless appealing they will just be given bigger bans, there's no chance the MRP will be seen contradicting themselves or the officials especially in round one.

Makes having every game televised worthwhile though aside from Warrington and Rovers fans no-one is going to want to watch our academy get tonked by Warrington.

Exactly this. That's what I saw at the time and watching on TV just confirms it. Anybody would react like that. Probably his previous record went against him.

Like you say no complaints with Pele.

Laid back Tony should be contesting the length of bans for both Essee and Sao.If he doesnt and we get his usual send me asleep reply then it looks like he cant be bothered.

He's probably thought of appealing but then thought oh yea there would increase the bans. IMO certainly not going to overturn these early bans

So whatt have we left . Time to give the young uns a go
Walker
Mac
Scott
Sutcliffe
Martin
Hoy
Smith
Ashworth
Brown
Gardener
Oku
Lane
Brown J
Subs
Staverly
Jebson
Diakhate
Balmforth
18th
Laidlaw

I dont understand how Liam Moore and Kendall can stop the game for 2 minutes to review the Ese Ese tackle, decide its low force after looking at the replays, give him 10 minutes in the sin bin, then Cullen comes along and using the same footage, deem its worthy of another 160 minutes of not playing!

I don’t understand how George Williams can make direct head contact with a swinging arm and it doesn’t even get mentioned never mind a ban? He caught Busquet in the 71st minute and it resulted in a penalty but nothing else. Same ref/vr that we had.

You’ve answered your own question by saying it’s George Williams

just need confirmation of Kendal as ref for friday night now to rub it in even more

The worst think about the bans, is the lack of consistency, already we have seen similar incidents been treated totally different. We now are going to miss 3 main forwards for a few games and we all know, like 2 seasons ago, they will start tough and then calm down, so similar incidents later in the season, wont get the same punishment. Getting harder and harder to enjoy this game.

How can Parcell get one game and Harry Smith and Kade Ellis get none, both are far more dangerous than what Parcell did.

The appeal should not be for overturning the bans but having the bans for Essee and Sao reduced.
There is sufficent inconsistency there and any decent Lawyer looking at the first round bans and also the ones who escaped should be able to produce a good enough argument to have them reduced.
I would be very disappointed with the club if they didnt appeal

He was warned multiple times over his running style of raising the knee into the tackler also .
Some of his twitter posts should be used against him , Laughing at the players he ed .

If it was a fair system I would say yes, but I don't trust the process and I would expect both players to get their bans increased.

I agree its the grading firstly the club need to challenge especially in Ese'ese case as you can clearly hear Moore telling him it was contact with the head but it was only low end force so was only a yellow. So in this case Cullen and his bent band masquerading as the MRP have decided that two experienced ref's got the live call so wrong to deem it a grade D.

Its another can of worms the RFL/MRP have opened up only this time the world and its dog can now all see every game which has highlighted even more the level of inconsistency not only within the officiating but also worryingly the MRP who are making a total mockery of the game once again.

Hopefully clubs will start to express their feelings either behind closed doors or openly about the skewed way that the MRP rule on suspensions.
This does nothing to enhance the sport and only further shows how amateurishly it is governed, time the RFL binned Cullen as he is simply not fit for the role.