Excellent news!

Great news

Spawny gets! That's lucky.

Very lucky

Was expecting a game or two ban for that!

I thought Ethan would of got a ban for running a fair distance to get involved and I thought Elliot may of been in bother for retaliating

Happy to hear that Roger - it would be a shame for a friendly to result in bans!

Aye that's what I mean. Running in from distance to throw a punch usually gets a ban. Didn't expect Elliot to get one or at the bare maximum a one game ban. Would have been harsh though.

I was expecting Elliot to get a one game ban for retaliation and then use his early guilty plea to get it wiped off but still get fined

I thought Ethan may of got a couple of games, glad he hasn't

I totally forgot about early guilty plea's! Aye I'm very glad no bans have been issued. Will the lads still get fined or has it been deemed sending off sufficient.

Does anyone know if the Keighley lads have got off?

Ryan Wright - Grade A Punching (No Further Action)
Samir Tahraoui - Sending Off Sufficient
Josh Lynam - Grade C Punching (2 Match Ban to commence from Tuesday 20th Feb)

No fines

Although I'm glad we've got off, im very surprised at Ryan and Tahraoui getting off especially. Ethan ran a fair distance to jump in, and Tahraoui refusing to leave the field is a serious offence IMO think if it had been a league game the result would have been different. Guessing the disciplinary couldn't be bothered doing a load of cases with it being a friendly.

This

Common sense (for once) has won out. It was in the final stages of a friendly - no need to blow it up into something more than what it was

Yes agree mate. Nothing to report, look forward to start of the season, as it should be

If you read the disciplinary write up, most of the guys got off because of their record for similar offences within the last 12 months. The one Keighley bloke who actually got a ban had some similar offences recently and so this was taken into account. I guess their logic is that he hasn't learned his lesson, which makes sense really.
Any more fighting from Minchella and Ryan will see them pick up bans imo.

www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/dis ... sciplinary The above link details the changes to the disciplinary proceedings for 2018. The early guilty plea is no more.

www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/dis ... sciplinary The above link details the changes to the disciplinary proceedings for 2018. The early guilty plea is no more.

Indeed. And what grade you get charged with is not in any way connected to your previous record. The previous record (relevant/non-relevant) bit comes in once you are charged, to decide what end of the scale your punishment is. So if you were charged with a Grade that carried 1-2 matches, you'd get 1 with a good record but 2 with a bad one. It wouldn't mean it would get downgraded.