If Friday is our last game I want to see some of this:

=#FF0000Removed link from a well know video sharing site under something like state of origin 1984 fight - posting links to that site isn't allowed under copyright/aup. - BP

I think we should go with the big game defence - I mean noone gets banned for cup finals do they? This game will be like our cup final.
Again, it's worth a try...

Don't forget the RFL are still letting you get away with murder after Millenium Tragic.

Excellent. Let's get tooled up.

Big loss if hes out lets pray its not his last game against Hull

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2 games and by his twitter response he's not happy

FFS. Unbelievable.

Oh dear. Never rains...

and Bateman has just deleted his original tweet and replaced it with one less likely to get him fined. Fortunately I recorded it for posterity.

"Nothing but a joke , can't believe it!!! Bull***t !!! 2games gutted !!!"

By my reckoning, that means 17 available/fit players for Friday now...

Going to be easy picking that team.

Absolutely laughable. Hull is one of the most hostile grounds to go to, Hull were only leading by 4 points so any slight infringment they would have been screaming for a penalty (like all fans would. I've done it many times) So if they can't remember something so serious at such a tense game. What did Lulaki get for his spear?

what a joke this is and what a kick in the teeth before friday!
do we have any players to come back this week? because while i know the result on the pitch comes second we still dont want a big crowd to see us get totally humiliated by leeds

What a joke! I can't even remember seeing anything untoward or even the Hull players/fans moaning about it!

Appeal? Can't see 2 getting reduced to zero though. 3 games out of 4 with a player banned and no real feared hard men in the team. With decisions like this how the £uck do the likes of bailey, Morley, hock etc ever get onto the field? I'm gutted for the kid, absolutely gutted.

I think the RFL may be suggesting he should sign for a club with an elastic salary cap and perhaps an elastic wallet. The market rules, after all.

I suspect young Mr Bateman may be prepared to defy the RFL.

Told you.

Had a sneaky fear this would be the outcome.

What's the betting Bailey or another do something similar this weekend and get away with it?

I've watched the incident on Hullfclive. It's a bad 'un and intentional or not is worth 2 games given the banning precedents set so far this season. Bateman basically slams Seymour into the ground head first in a kind of judo throw (difficult to describe really). It's not a spear tackle per se but just as dangerous IMO.

Only if his 3 matches for touching the ref has expired. An offence that no-one would have noticed if it hadn't been on tele. Still don't let that get in the way of your paranoia.

So bad that noone can remember it? You had to go and find it to see what it was about!

. . .and the ref [iwanted [/ihim to really too!

I hate it when that happens <which is a lot

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I didn't have to go and find it. It's pretty obvious when watching the televised game, although granted I was watching out for it.

Something doesn't have to stand out to be bad you know. Seymour isn't lifted into the air - which is why I guess the crowd didn't see much - but nonetheless he is slammed head-first into the ground with enough force to have done some serious damage if the angle of impact had been a little different. Just like in a spear tackle in fact. It didn't look deliberate and was just a reckless/clumsy tackle IMO - which is why none of the players react badly.

FC v Bradford wasn't on tele.

And no one noticed the Bateman incident but he still got 2 matches.



So what's your point?

If no-one noticed how did he end up getting 2 matches? Perhaps it was made up.

Looks like Tom Olbison will replace bateman on friday. Hope he goes well good worker young olbison but i suppose match fitness has to be questioned but then again we have not get much in the ranks after him!!!

Tbh I'm surprised he doesn't want to go to Warrington and follow in the footsteps of his father Allan.