Hardaker headbutt two game ban!!!!!!
Zane T late / aggressive tackle five game ban.
I am not a conspiracy theorist but what is going on?

My thoughts exactly. Wigan certainly seem to know what to say in these things. Wonder if they went with the 'heat of the moment' thing

Ha don't get me started on this. The handling of Tet was nothing short of a disgrace.
Been far worse things done since...... 'most given 1-2 matches. How a' slightly mistimed tackle, can be twice as bad as head butting someone is beyond me.....!

God we arent still going on about Tetevano's ban surely? The club accepted the ban without appealing.

Not particularly linking it to the Tetevano ban but it does seem a very hard to explain judgement. Much as I dislike Joel Tomkins he will potentially get a ban double the size of hardakers for an instinctive reaction to an unprovoked headbutt on his brother!
Not sure the ban would be the same if the incident happened the other way round.
I know that there are supposed to be scales for things but the circumstances and running order of incidents should be considered. JP would have got a huge ban nowadays for his reaction to Willie Mason knocking Fielden out!

I HAD TO CHECK MY DIARY, I THOUGHT IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE 1ST APRIL NOT 1ST JUNE.
ZAK MUST HAVE BEEN DEALT WITH IN A LENIENT MANNER DUE TO HIS EXEMPLARY GOOD BEHAVIOUR IN THE PAST!!
MANY NEUTRAL FANS DISLIKE THE TOMKINS BROTHERS INTENSELY BUT FOR JOEL TO RECEIVE A LONGER BAN THAN ZAK IS A JOKE

ONE FINAL THOUGHT, NO ONE WAS MORE OF A GENTLEMAN ON THE FIELD OF PLAY THAN KRIS RADLINSKI AND ONE CANNOT HELP WONDERING WHY HE PERSISTS IN BEING EMPLOYED BY A CLUB WHO SEEM TO BE A BREADING GROUND FOR THUGGISH BEHAVIOUR E.G. TOMKINS BROS, McALLORUM, FLOWER

Absolutely outrageous. The game is a joke. 2 match ban for a deliberate head butt!!! Wow. Though Leeds didn’t appeal Tetevanos ban Agar publicly criticised the length of the ban. He must he seething. The game over here is so tin pot amateur at times it’s laughable

I like Hardaker, met him numerous times through a mutual friend, and he’s been a top lad. Question is, how the hell did he only get 2 games for violent conduct?

I actually think 2 games is about right, he barely made any contact.

Yeah it probably is, but I think we are taking issue that Tet got 4 matches for far less, with no malicious intent....!

Oh no the Tetevano ban is still getting mentioned......

I think the issue is someone who initiates it by headbutting likely gets half the ban of someone punching as retaliation. If someone headbutted me, I think I would punch them back.

Surely a headbutt is worse than a punch too.

I didn't like the way Hardaker had his arm between the Catalan players legs either. Hardaker should have got a 5 match ban for me.

Yeah, anyone with any sense could see Hardaker has just lost it. He's giving Tomkins a good, sustained grope. Then he headbutts him. With his previous how he's not sat on a 6 or 7 week ban is beyond me. The Wigan fans claim it was nothing, and the contact from the headbutt wasn't spectacular, but it's the complete opposite of how players should be behaving. They'd rather completely ignore it than look at the fact that he's a liability.

I don't think what Hardaker did was worse. A a late shoulder with some contact to the head is probably more likely to cause injury than what ZH did.

Just seen this, definitely leading in with the head but not a real head butt, 2 matches seems fair. J Tomkins should get 4-6 for running in and punching, scroat bag player like his brother

Very similar to Sir Kev's effort on Luke Dorn. For which, from memory, he got two.

Thought it was sending iff sufficient, Hardakers was a bit worse but neither were Steve Hampson on Gary Freeman.

Joel Tomkins 4 match ban for his return fire after the 'headbutt'. Oh dear. Nevermind.

I hope we don't need a discussion on Tetevano's ban every time an opposition player goes to the disciplinary. Let it go folks.

2 for Hardaker and 4 for Tomkins sound about right to me having watched the incident a few times.

Quite, all of those are in the bounds of where they should have been.
The lack of understanding about the disciplinary and the criteria/charges/punishments handed out was painful when Tetevano was banned, regurgitating the same incorrect statements every time there is a big disciplinary decision in some attempt to make Leeds the victims is tedious indeed.

Sinfield was indeed two games, arguably for worse than what Hardaker did although his track record was of course essentially perfect. It did, however, get him back in time for a Cup semi final, which we won - and the conspiracy theories about that from opposition fans were very loud indeed!

Just had a little spring clean of the thread as being such an obvious "emotive" thread (ie everyone hates Leeds) it was getting a bit, Fruity.

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