4 game ban is illogical.

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I bet Darryl Powell has been lined up by the RFL to assist Wayne Bennett. I have little doubt his media comment has adversely skewed the outcome. Why else would the RFL reach such a perverse and unmerited punishment? Disgraceful.

Ah well. Just when you think the RFL have hit rock bottom, they manage to dig their hole a bit deeper. There is no consistency at all, we have all seen much worse incidents totally ignored. They kick off when it suits, and ignore when it suits. Totally inept and without rhyme or reason.

We Have a great game, and they continue to bring it into disrepute with poor management both on and off the field.

The 4 games has probably come because of the bleating from Powell and Shenton.

It looked innocuous to me and to most people but Shenton has every right to bleat if he thought it was reckless. He suffered the injury his season is over and it's a long road back to fitness.

Powell does a lot of that. Westwood got a harsh ban for tackle last season that was no worse than we see every week. Personally think 4 games is harsh. Probably due to the severity of the injury ,accident won't come into it. Expect to see more bans this season.

So we now ban people based on the severity of the injury rather than the act that caused it? In that case, Millington should have got at leaast 4 games last season when Campese was tackled and suffered his ACL injury.

Apart from Campese was the one trying to make the tackle and Millington put him on his backside with a hand off, great point

And the Westwood "tackle" mentioned in the post was you quoted was high, left Gale in hospital and happened over a second after he passed the ball.

Goulding was carrying the ball at the time wasn't he? Carney is a moron on and off the pitch with a lousy and dangerous tackling technique though which is summed up by his disciplinary record over the years.

Will the RFL ban every player who attacks the legs for 4 games or just the ones that cause injury, can of worms been opened IMO.

I'd like to see them do it and bring in a rule that the 3rd man in can't go below the hip. Make it an auto sin bin like grapple tackles, chicken wings and crushers are supposed to be on top of that too.

It would be best to clamp down on it now before someone ends up crippled.

Gale was guilty of at least 2 similar tackles. Just not the resulting injury

I was surprised it even went to the panel, if this is the standard to be set there SHOULD be a lot of bans coming up, but I doubt it. What happened to the 1-2 they said was the range anyway, are they allowed to double it because he plays for us or maybe because he is French. I hope Hudgell keeps a close eye on things and shouts very loud if this precedent is not followed up in other case.

The clowns of red Hall strike again. I've said it before and I'll say it again.
The numpties that run Red hall are so inconsistent that I'm sure the word itself was created and printed in the English dictionary especially for them.
If the tackle had been malicious with an intent to injure, then a ban would have been rightly forthcoming, however, after carefully watching the tackle on TV several times I didn't see anything that warranted a 4 match ban.
As a result of this verdict I believe the RFL have set a precedent and it will be interesting to see what they do in future games when you see the likes of Wigan players in particular employing that type of tackle in a game. Perhaps in future we should notify them every time such tackle takes place that is seen on the TV and if no action is taken ask them.... why not.?
Just don't expect an honest or logic answer from them.
Complete goons the lot of them, once again the disciplinary panel as a result of their actions, are made to look inconsistent and amateurish.

To be honest Sandro it wasn't seeing as you denounced everybody who referred to him as French John from the very beginning