Did Gannon complete the tackle on Coote after the collision or did he try and pick Coote up or what? Did anyone notice it?

Or was it as they was walking off with the physio? Somebody patted one of them on the head as they was walking off cos guy behind me commented how clever it was when a player had a head knock.

It shows it on the superleague show, he tries to pick him up, not particularly heavily he just pulls on his shirt.

Daft, but hell learn.

Cheers. Sounds a justified ban then. Saw the collision live but not the afters.

I honestly cant believe theyve banned Gannon for 2 matches.

Rightly or wrongly, hes shown genuine concern, bent both legs, put his hands under Coote in an attempt to put him in the recovery position. In that split second, hes let go as the physio has pushed him out of the way. He lifted him no more than an inch.

The problem here is the disciplinary comes out and hes charged with “other contrary behaviour” for lifting an injured player. But no one remembers it. So everyone assumes hes done the old “grab em by the shirt, lift em up and drop em”.

Hes a young lad, naive, but there was literally no malice whatsoever. And it doesnt deserve a ban. A warning at worst. Even that would be harsh.

The game has gone mad. Disciplinary panel is and absolute farce. Its doing a lot of harm to the game.

Agreed. It looked the opposite of malice. He looked like he was trying to help him (as opposed to the Gale on Lomax lift which was bs)

Naive at worst ....the RFL has this one badly wrong

Is the club going to appeal it?
Probably worried Cullen will increase the ban to 4 matches .

I still find it hard to believe that Paul Cullen is in charge of the Disciplinary panel. What next Sweeney Todd in charge of the RFL Barbers?

Agree mate.
Barry Mac should be sitting alongside him.

I'd have thought there is a strong case for an appeal. Especially if Morgan emphasises it as reactive and came from the right mindset not with any malintent

Is Mellor just out of favour or injured as well? Could do with him back as cover for second row or centre.

Injured. I was told by someone he was out for 6 weeks but im not sure how reliable that was.

Kallum Watkins ban overturned on appeal......

Would you believe it

Just watched the Gannon incident.
Complete joke!

I think it's a harsh penalty but not a joke by any means.
The guy was on the floor injured, moving him with any malintent or not might of made him a paraplegic for the rest of his life. He is not a trained medical proffesional and shouldnt of touched him.
The message is clear for anyone that touching an injured player will get you a ban.
What is a joke is that Gale managed to get his lumped into one penalty and got away with 5 games!

Club falls short on discipline shocker.
We've seen bans already for this offence. Either the coaching staff aren't flagging up the things that attract bans or the players aren't taking heed.
Hopefully Smith picks up on these seemingly small details, and all the others, and puts it right. Because there's absolutely no need.

It would help considerably if there were any sort of consistency - Percival walking away with no ban whatsoever when his head shot against Sio is far worse than any of the high tackles we've had players banned for (bar Bentley's first). I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it really does feel like we as a squad have been judged under different rules this season.

When you dont have the momentum you dont get the descisions.

Out of interest does anybody have the stats that show how many games have been missed by players per club due to bans?
I bet we are pretty near the top.

I think we are the top!!

Wahey!
We could win something this year then
Watch Luke Gale go and spoil it and pip us at the post.

Very clever use of the rules by Leeds Rhinos, made him available for under 18s that week so he’d be able to use it as a suspension, meaning he only misses one SL game v Salford.

Update.

Walker - 4 weeks
Fusitua - full training return
Newman - 4 weeks
Sutcliffe - full training return
Sezer - 3-4 weeks
Prior - 2 match suspension
Bentley - return this week
Tetevano - return this week
Mellor - full training return
Myler - full training return
Holroyd - full training return
Briscoe - 10 weeks
Gannon - 1 match suspension
Johnson - full training return
Hardaker - full training return.

Good to see the club giving a proper update.

Does that mean the players returning to full training are available for Salford?

Guess that depends how they shape up in training!