He did get a 2 match ban, However his previous good discipline meant he had an EGP available reducing it to 1 match. He's already said in interviews since that himself and Travis wasn't the best of friends last year and it's well documented that Burns was a bit of a bully at Rovers, This may not show through at Saints with stronger characters.

Early days Easty. I predict a less than harmonious changing room at Saint Helens before too long.

Travis has always had facial issues. Why would that suggest differently? Anyhoo are you saying Ronnie Wileman deliberately did Roger?

It would suggest there was contact with the head. It does not indicate a deliberate attempt to inflict damage so please keep your extrapolation to yourself.

I agree, it was a purely accidental late, high, shoulder to the head of someone he has openly claimed not to like.

Pure accident.

2 words.Francis Meli.

Three words - got sent off.

Eight more words - four match ban in addition to red card.

Irrelvant. Still did the deed.

A disgusting tactic. Lucky Craig Hall's neck wasn't broken.

I think Green's shoulder charge was more of a careless late bump rather than an all out late malicious hit. Given the size differential between the two, in some ways it was inevitable there would be secondary contact to the head. Outcome, 1 match EGP ban for Green, and Burns is still a dick.

You're right, thanks for providing the comparison.

So what we've established is that one player (who didn't openly state his dislike for his "victim"icon_wink.gif gets the equivalent of five matches for a high tackle.

Then another gets one match for a high tackle that leaves a player's face fractured in several places and apparently has the class to claim he didn't like his victim anyway.

Good stuff.

Wonder why travis got a huge ban in australia was it 17 matches,and hasnt he just served a ban for a head high tackle on justin carney ? Get those blinkers off.

James Green is a lucky boy to get away with such a light sentence for this. RFL sentencing guidelines are allowed to take into account any injury sustained and I suspect his EGP may have prevented the panel from going outside (i.e. a longer ban) the suggested sanction for a Grade B.

Taking away who the victim was, and the fact it was one of our own, there would have been a much higher level of condemnation on here for this. The only thing in James' favour is his previous good record. I can only recall 1 previous ban (lifting knee in tackle at Bradford in one of his very early games). I hope he kicks on to become an international standard prop (the potential is there, as good as Walmsley IMO), but I don't want a thug in the side.