Give over, the impact was absolutely nothing. It was the floor that hurt him, which could happen in any incident where someone falls to the floor in a game. As Cas' coach suggested, it's just one of those things that happens from time to time in impact sports. Fortunately it appears Joe Westerman is okay, that is the main thing.

Absolute bollox, take off your tinted specs.

Matterson has admitted on your club website that it was a nothing incident.

I don't think that guy ("not again"icon_wink.gif is a Cas fan?

Maybe because he would probably get fined by the RFL if he said "it was a shocking tackle" or "dangerous play by Saints"?

No, not really, if he just isolates the one incident and explains his reasoning then I would imagine he'd be fine, however, if he had gone off on one a la morgan the other week thats when you find yourself in trouble.

I'm sure the RFL will look in to the incident and make a decision on whether Gilmour has a case to answer

I think that was just a gesture.
Lets be honest there werent one player on the cas side deserved MOM.

pro RL players have to much respect for each other for it to be malicious , i have yet to see it . clumsy maybe but doesn't sound like gilmours style of play to me.

I know. The gesture was well placed. Probably just me trying to misplace a gag in the wrong time

Sorry i'm a very fair person as views go but that was a disgrace. Anyone who disagrees with me should look at it with a beatuiful thing called sky plus and slow it down, Gilmour is looking straight at his head and takes him out. He didn't look at the ball and i'm sorry thats a ban.

Hope he's OK and back for you very soon.

Hope Joe makes a full recovery.

Absolutely nothing in the tackle though, can't believe some people are so drunk on their emotions that they would even consider that it warrants a ban.

Lee Gilmour CLEARLY looks at westy before going for his head.

Is that legal ?

Thought not.

Ban him for looking.

True rugby League fans do not like to see serious injury! Get well soon Joe. Wakey Fan!

Now surely looking at his head before going for the mans head shows intent ?

Just this minute seen the tackle on SSN.
Gilmore did go high but joe was stooping down.
The only thing that really annoyes me is joe didnt even have the ball, it went behind him.
Tackled with out ball is that an offence. Mmm

Get well soon xx

i too have sky+ and as bigger cas fan as any and i'm sorry i dont see it being anything other than a push off the ball happens every game and normally results in the player stumbling as he moves on but on this ocasion JW was too laxidasicle in his runnin/stance and fell to the floor very awkwardly!!!

no ban and no case to answer but an apology to JW wouldnt go a miss.

Get well soon Joe.

Having just watched it back there was nothing wrong with the tackle and he only lost the ball seconds before so Gilmour did nothing wrong it was just very unlucky.

just seen it the pass from fookitupmoaner was atrocious, Joe bent for the ball, but Gilmore was on him, contact with the head took place but as Joe was bending down is this classed as a high tackle

Joe fell awkwardly obviously concussed so a culmination of the head contact and his falling were to blame. foul play... id say not intentional just a terrible injury get well soon lad

Absolutely nothing I can see wrong in the play leading up to the incident, culmination of factors led to Joe being knocked out and clearly lost consciousness.

Having a fit having suffered a head injury is not especially uncommon at amateur level one of my mates has played in 5 or 6 games it has happened in - that is just a poll of 1 person. Though very distressing and as a father and husband - I wish nothing but the best and a speedy and 100% recovery for a bright young star.

I think some people are looking at the outcome of the incident and trying to make a crime fit the result - but sometimes in a professional collision sport things like this just happen. There isn't always a villain, the best thing we can do is wish Joe and the Westy family all the best and a speedy and complete recovery, I am sure in the weeks to come if he remembers it he will clear up there was no malice or intent in the collision and he will have had worse and got up from them, it's just this one was a seriously bad outcome.

I couldn't make the game yesterday, but was shocked when I heard about this.

It sounds like Joe's ok though which is a relief and I hope he's better soon and back on the field.

Seeing a player fitting or having spasms is very scary and there can be no doubt as to the severity of the situation. Sounds like he got through OK and more of a scare than anything else and thankfully he is ok. It really is a hard hard game.