Assination by press!!

Shaun Leaf gets 18mth ban and £500 fine!!! The whole thing stinks!!!

No further comment!

Disgusting, you get 2 years for a drugs ban and 18 month for putting a bet on.
RFL what a bunch of idiots, no wonder the game is falling around there ankles.

havent seen anything on anywebsites yet, and would have thought they would have jumped on this. cant believe it, gutted

Interesting and [sizeextremely concerning [/sizethat the Sun announced a couple of weeks ago that Shaun would get an 18-month ban ... just who's decision is this?

The whole thing leaves an incredibly bad taste!

The RFL stinks to high heaven. They could'nt run a bath. Really feel for the bloke, this punshment is completley disproportionate to what he did.

I don't see how that compares with what Sean Long & Gleeson got as a ban, but oh i forgot that they are SL & GB players. The RFL stinks and is as bent as it gets. I don't know why i bother any more.....

I dislike the RFL with a passion and could walk away from them at the drop of a hat. What keeps you going are the players and coaches and staff at this level who are as far removed from the shower of crap at RL HQ'S as you can get. Hope Leafy is back in 2013 and I wish him all the very best.

Franchising, Double standards, Pointless expansionism at any price, the list goes on.
The chant this week should not be 'Come on you Dons' but 'We hate the RFL, We hate the RFL!'

There's nothing on the Dons' website or the RFL's website yet.

We must appeal this straight away.

On what grounds have they come up with 18 months? How does this case differ from Long and Gleeson?

Leafy must remember next time to set up an account with bookies instead and he'll only get 6 months.

As other posters have said how the s*n knew about the 18 months thing also makes you ask questions.

Its a disgrace if true.

Gutted for the Lad.

It's a serious offence of which he was found guilty.
But the RFL need to be challenged to justify the severity of the ban and demonstrate some consistency. Given lighter sentences previously for similar offences.

Agreed it is a serious offence, and he shouldn't have done it however 18 months is a joke.......infact the RFL is a joke at present!!

People slagging them off won't change their mind.
Putting some sort of concerted appeal together by the club, challenging the legitimacy of the punishment, might.

Sorry SO but they will not change the verdict IMO. Leafy is inconsequential enough for them not to have to worry about appeals or petitions or whatever us the little folk may try to organise in his cause. He is not an household name, an International player and will probably never get a mention outside of this (Doncaster)forum. I hope to hell I'm wrong but its my gut feeling. The RL have always been very good at hitting hardest at the smallest in our game. So I for one will reserve my right to slag off the jumped up wannabes that purport to be the bastions of our game. Someone is close to the Sun newspaper if Wanderers earlier post is correct and if they can be influenced by that promoter of all things virtuous in our society then God help us. I don't tust them and I never will.