Somebody told me this afternoon, I suppose they may be wrong. I did find it a bit strange seeing that the appeals are usually in the evening.

It was P Charlesworth, G Hallas & N McAvoy that banned Perry. The appeal is heard by R Grant, J Wells & N Turley, who, if they are the former players, may knock some sense into the case.

So are the G Hallas and N McAvoy not Graeme Hallas formerly a Halifax player and Nathan McAvoy formerly of Bradford?

To be fair, I would have though Neil Turley would still be playing!?

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No surprise there. The RFL is made up of an amateurish bunch of idiots.

To be fair, it was worth a ban, he did punch the chap. It was also worth it for the entertainment value. Best bit of entertainment in the whole game

But didn't the chap also start the fracas and punch more times than Perry? And did he get banned? And did he deserve his ban?

It's a load of bollows.

Well apparently Perry started it but he started it with a push, not a punch. If that is the case (I didn't see how it began) then I now expect to see all players who push other players (or indeed, punch them) cop a ban. But that won't happen of course and that's because the RFL is a bunch of amateurs and no-one is challenging them.

Bloody stupid, it is.

No he didn't get banned; he got a £300 fine. He got to stand outside the headteacher's office whereas Perry got to go in.

again, to be fair my take on the incident was that the crusaders player thought he'd try and rough up perry in the tackle, this was either brilliant (to provoke him and get a penalty) or masocistic as perry is a brawler, and a bloody good one. I think it was intentional to wind him up, it worked JP pushed him over (first penalty there), the chap retaliates (your getting called up for that and its just stupid) then Perry proceeds to nearly knock his head off (at this point he was always getting banned and one game, in an unbiased view is lucky for us).
Anyway JP is known for being a brawler, and needs to calm down and be a bit more professional. If he'd taken the punch and laughed at the crusaders player we would have had the penalty and Perry could have earned his ban properly with an excellent rematch against the other JP this Friday!

punching rat boy is fine..... no ban

however... punching a regular human is an automatic ban.... you can have no complaints.

Sorry, but I think that's tosh!

I loved the biff. It sparked up the fans, put life into the match and was just a case of two big blokes sorting out their differences. Now Perry has to be more careful and that's a shame because it could make him less of an aggressive forward for us.

The RFL is pathetic.

So what your're saying is, I'm right but you dont like that i am, "You can't handle the truth!"

Who did he chin?

Have to say Saintsfan i think this is some tosh, if anything the idea that he can't go out and punch up anyone who roughs him up will help him control and channel his aggresion into being a better runner and more focused player!

Yeah, woteva!

No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that I don't want the RFL to continue behaving like a mummy protecting her toddlers. I watch a game played by men who occasionally imagine themselves to be alpha males, out there in the jungle. That's part of the attraction of rugby league for me. Take that out of the game, smack wrists for what was a one-on-one, big man scrap, and that puts me off. It'll put quite a few fans off. The genuine biff is part of the edge.

Bravo for a well constructed, thought out reply!

Your own response was not worth the effort. If you'd actually responded to what I wrote, as opposed to what you thought I wrote or what you wanted me to have written, then I would have made the effort. As it is, you didn't, so I didn't.

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yeah i'm pretty sure i replied to what you said. but yes, you clearly have never played the game, and the previous reply was quite insulting considering you completely disregarded my opinion, do you speak to most people like an uneducated 13 year old?

I try to, yes. It's part of my project to get down with the kids.

Teacher syndrome, I have come across it quite a lot.

You throw punches, you risk a ban. Perry has lots of form in getting involved in biff and will risk bans whenever he decides he fancies a scrap.

I know it's fun to watch but unfortunately that's the way it is now.

Well I look forward to seeing some consistency from the RFL and ban everybody who 'instigates' a fight.