It's mentioned in the Bring Back The Biff thread, and as I wrote in there it does sound like a chicken wing tackle. Ablett also got a warning letter about the same thing. Again, there's no place for stuff like that in our game.

Maurie got a 1 game ban for it, and some people reckon that's only becuase they didn't have the camera angles to really prove anything. IF Diskin is found guilty, then a 2-3 game suspension is only reasonable.

I really hate this. I hope he cops a big ban if its' proven.

Anyone know roughly when in the game this happened? Still have it on my sky+, wouldnt mind taking a look.

Certainly dont remember the tackle in question...

Sorry, its nothing to do with the chicken wing incident but to do with Diskin. How about "Let's all have a disco! Let's all have a disco!" at the same time dancing like an idiot in the south stand? Obviously only after he scores, so we wont have to do it that often!

Undue pressure on the joint of an opponent (21, Wheeler) in 59th minute.

59th minute according to


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59th minute tackle on the St Helens left winger Wheeler.

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The warning letter for Ablett refers to something that happened in the [url=http://www.therfl.co.uk/about/disciplinary_item.php?id=83227th[/url

Just watched, doesnt look much in it IMO

although the camera angles not the best for seeing it clearly, but theres no penalty, appeal from the crowd or reaction from any of the Sky commentators

Leave it out Leeds. The game's hard enough as it is without these type of tackles. No place for it, if proven. Benefit of the doubt for now.

Exactly. It's a cowards way of doing things, trying to injure players who, in the main, can't defend themselves.

Out of interest, how in the hell was the Gilmour/Smith incident dealt with appropriately by the referee?

Thats what it says. They have a case for displinary against Gilmour for the tackle. Saints got the penalty incorrectly. Yet the disciplinary decision is the referee dealt with approporiately.

How was it a disciplinary case against Gilmour if dealt with appropriately?

Are they saying that on viewing the game again that Gilmour was not at fault? If so why mention clumsy tackle around the head after tackle completed?

Because in cases such as these they reveal themselves as the referee apologetic buffoons they undoubtedly are.

And well done to Jon Wilkin for protecting an opposition player from getting an undeserved b[iitc[/ih slapping from Gilmour. That was nice to see.

Im afraid I clocked it live in the match - and mentioned it to "our kid" at the time. The saints player didnt react at all.


1 game ban

I saw our players a couple of times and I wasn't impressed.

benefit of the doubt, they're trying to roll the tackled player onto his back. Worst case scenario , they're attempting a chicken wing.

Don't like to see it.

Saw at least 1 chicken wing tackle, think it was Diskin, but may have been the ABlett one also

A chicken wing is pulling back a limb so the pressure is on the joint. Didn't you see the way Wheeler got up from the tackle? We all noticed it where I was standing.


There doesn't need to be. The RFL now watches all matches afterwards to scan for these things. I think that's how Fas was caught (and he deserved his ban).

If it is a "chicken wing" tackle then a ban is fully deserved the game is tough enough as it is and this type of "tackle" is not needed nor wanted.

Diskin doesnt really strike me as a dirty player. Maybe he was just trying to roll Wheeler on to his back and got the technique wrong?

The chicken wing tackle is wrong i hope he gets roasted at the rfl

That's a FOWL joke ??? Yes

That's how I saw it but I've only seen it once.

I'm all for the RFL trying to make sure these techniques don't migrate over here from Oz. However, for me the worst offense of the game was Gilmour's "Grapple tackle with added Eye Gouge"* so why is it going unpunished!

*Despite watching this one several times on the Biff video that someone put on a well known video sharing website I can't decide if the eye gouging hand is Gilmours or another saints player (Wilkin?) - either way its a clear deliberate grapple and somebody also claws at Smiths eyes (possibly not intentional but suspicious in the replays)

Being generous that was my though. If the RFL accept them I hope they warn him strongly abolut his technique in the future. Its' not something I want to see in the game let alone from our players.

Interesting to see Stadler and Waldorf creaming themselves over Bentham's performance on Friday.

The same Phil Bentham who put both sides on a warning following the brawl, then immediately cr*pped out of it when the next offender just happened to be the Saints captain and put both sides on a warning again?

During the game Stevo was calling for sin binnings, then afterwards commended Bentham for not sin binning players



Bentham may have sorted it in the end but he caused it in the first place by letting it get to the level it did without nipping it in the bud.