Even Buderus might be back playing before the Warrington Thug is back on the pitch!!


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Good. and so he should be with that tackle. shows the RFL aint bottling out in bans this year.

Is this the benchmark for a 5 game ban?

There's gonna be plenty of 2 or 3 game bans dished out by the RFL then.......................unless the new rules implemented by the RFL at the start of the new season, get forgotten about after a month or so

I've still to see it (thanks Beeb!) so I can't comment on how deserved it was.

Pre watershed, too violent for daytime viewing.

I can't understand the Beeb though, they usually love showing incidents that hold the game in a dim light.

At least it was on the ball carrier.

It just highlights the incompetence/tolerance of the NRL's 3rd best official.

One match for Fakir as well in the same match. Westwood's didn't appear five times worse to me.

SLTV on the Super League website can help you out there.

I think the immediate verbals to the victim might have influenced the length of the ban. It did seem to suggest that there was clear intent involved. Of course only Westwood himself will know whether that's true, but it won't have looked good in court, so to speak.

Has anyone got a link to a video of this tackle???

Quote ="SDB"Has anyone got a link to a video of this tackle???'" Not a direct one just now, but go to www.superleague.co.uk, click on "video" then on "SLTV" then go to the match on the Week 3 highlights.

Quote ="SDB"Has anyone got a link to a video of this tackle???'" Not a direct one just now, but go to www.superleague.co.uk, click on "video" then on "SLTV" then go to the match on the Week 3 highlights.

The most deserved ban in rugby league IMO. Westwood showed no remorse after that tackle and I hope he uses this time to take a look at himself.

I wouldnt wish that on anyone.

Melted wellie springs to mind!!

I would just like to echo the sentiments of the previous posters and

The tackle deserved three matches, but the idiotic gloating definatley deserved the other two. What sort of self respecting rugby player does that?

I think the ban is a sensible length. Carlaw was carried off, not to return, so Catalans lost his input in the game and were also forced into an early sub. Then look at the offendender??! Old Wild Wild Westwood. How many times has he shown himself to be no more than a moron on the pitch? Too many. We've seen numerous high tackles, poor technical tackle ability (with players ending up on their head), dropping with knees in the tackle, also going in with the forearm raised. The bloke is a liability. Safer in the stand (maybe not for the fans though

). As for the tackle, yes it was high and caught him, no doubt. But I think the length of the ban is more to do with the offenders history, than the RFL clamping down on high tackles. In this case they've got it spot on IMO, and that's all you can ask for. If he does it again slap him with an even longer ban until this thug learns. Or failing that, just slap him.

Just seen it i hope he gets sent to prison.

Stoned? Hung? Beat or fried to death?

Beat no doubt about it.

thats one thing union have that is better than us. a better and tougher disciplinary system. westwood would have got 12 weeks in t'other code

Just seen it on Boots 'n' All.

Its an outrage! If someone did that on the street they would end up in handcuffs.

Big daft lads, rough tough game, we see a sanitised version of what used to happen every week - we've grown soft.

The thing that disappointed me the most about the tackle, was not the shot at Carlaws jaw, rugby league is a contact sport and you expect the odd stray arm, but it was the fact he jumps into it! That, to me, shows an intent to hurt the opposition seriously, which we can do without!

I agree with the physicality but its the polite advice Mr Westwood offers after the event. It is completely unneccesary and lowers the game to that of thuggery.

I bet the home crowd loved it and if Barrie McDermott had done it to any opposition forward then so would we have.

You telling me that the home crowd loved Westwood giving what appeard to be a fairly aggressive mouthfull to a man who didn't know what day of the week it was. Now I know we have some sub human supporters of the great game of rugby league but I refuse to belive that any of them went to the pub and said

"you know What I realy liked in that game was when Westwood hit that bloke, not the contact but he really told that bloke what for"