Surely the game should now be replayed with Bradford only being allowed 12 men?

Better out for Salford than Hull.

Foaming over this. What is dangerous about it? He hits with his should, it wasn't high. It wasn't late as Silverwood didn't blow the whistle. You are told as a 5 year old to play for the whistle!!!!!

On another note this guilty plea is a joke. If we contest it and automatically get found guilty, then the RFL will automatically give a player the maximum ban. We could have had a situation of Elimas getting two games & Bridge getting one game

wasnt fosters challenge just as bad as leading with the knees when a player is in the act of scoring. whithead was already on the floor and i think had collected the ball before foster started to aim his kick.it was reckless and putting an opposition player at risk while not putting himself in too much danger.

I can't help but wonder if it had been BJ that clattered into him, would the outcome be the same? Possibly not, but I'd say that this incident was similar to Sammut in terms of severity so I expect he'll be gone for next week. Not that I agree with it though, there seems to be a lot of minor offences being given 1 game bans. Perhaps time to look at making use of the sin bin for such incidents.

I'd noticed section 2.9 Adey. But the mitigating/aggravating issues are decided at the trbunal hearing and part of early guilty plea system is the the players gives up the right to a hearing. So Im not convinced mitigating/aggravating issues are taken into account. looking at the adjudications for bridge and sammut, first couple of names I could think of who have used early plea shows no entries in that part of adjudication form. Description of charge to be awarded in case of a early plea (with example shown being for a grade B charge) doesnt seem to leave much doubt either.

Which bit are you struggling to understand? The game had stopped. Gaskell didn't even have the ball FFS.

The ball was loose, the rfl has ruled.

Lets just not bother tackling anymore, lets elbow them in the head or better still kick them in the face. That will do.

Elima dropped on someone without the ball and, regardless of whistles or knock on's, you can't do that. He had plenty of time to pull out so he's got no-one to blame but himself.
Good to see some aggression in our pack though just needs directing a bit better.

The game hadn't stopped to be fair to Elima, not until the ref blows his whistle. It's very easy to say what he should of done when watching it in very slow motion replay. If Gaskell had caught the ball, Stevo would have been calling it a 'wow of a hit'. I have stated before that I feel the disciplinary are handing out a fair few 1 game bans for fairly minor incidents. RL is a tough contact sport, it is the reason I enjoy watching the game. I don't want to see every slightly late challenge being referred to a hearing.

I guess it is consistent with the Sammut ban though, whether that consistency remains until nearer the play offs remains to be seen.

Gaskell dropped the ball, dropped to his knees, everyone stopped, I went to make a cup of Yorkshire Gold, let it brew for the requisite 4 minutes, came back in just in time to catch Elima flattening him. It was that marginal.

You obviously need to watch the incident again if you think Gaskell was on his knees when Elima made contact.

He was on his knees afterwards...

Finally you've posted something sensible on this topic

I worry about Tigertot...

Don't tell me you're a Rington's Tea man?

Nah, Yorkshire Gold will do just fine. On around an hourly basis.

But I'd sort of assumed you must have been partaking of some illicit "herbal" tea when composing that last flight of fancy...?

I've just put a little glass in the freezer & in 10 minutes will be filling it with Chase stunning potato vodka. My only vice of the night.

Some of the comments on the saints board are laughable about Elima`s tackle, and innocent foster gets off with no charge !

Braver men than me then... there'll be a repeat of the Wagga "helicopter" incident...

Did you expect anything else from their s?

No not really `Pure Saints ` aren`t they ! They reckon that redhall should have thrown the book at Elima now that`s laughable

You have to see it from a Saints fan's point of view. Elima's deliberate attack was premeditated and caused substantial injury, whilst Fosters was'nt.



We should pity the Saint's poor mites (after a few losses) that have now taken to outright panic by week 7!

Cunningham as a coach - that really is a laugh.

Elima's tackle was every bit as potentially dangerous as Bridge's. Thankfully everyone on here was forgiving of Bridge's minor indiscretion.