First Utility Touch and Tag Rugby League... Doesn't have the same ring to it.

That'd be demeaning the same governing body you expected to 'cop out'?

Hudgell has made specific claims about pretty serious breaches of process. If they're untrue then Hull KR will look bad. If they're true then the governing body is generating its own disrepute.

I doubt you'll build much consensus around that statement saying JB acted against the spirit of the game, unless new footage emerges.

Nail on the head; and I share your suspicion of coaches and players. There is a mountain of evidence that tackle techniques are constantly evolving to 'win' the ruck, and the latest incarnation is the first man in going high and holding the attacker up, so that others can join one by one and chop him to pieces, turning him over in the process so he ends up on his back, with his head towards his own sticks - they then peel off one by one, which takes the longest possible time. That's considered a defensive 'win' from a coaching perspective, but I'm sure it's not what the rules intended.

I'm not at all in favour of removing collision or risk from the game - but I am in favour of removing the ability of coaches to play fast and loose with the rules to the detriment of player welfare and the spectacle.

In that case we should have a dozen players up every week. What I think will happen is that the RFL will quietly move on without doing this again, leaving us without any no 9's for a month.

Quick question re 'leg whip'.
Does anyone else hear Family Guy's Stewie's voice when they read it?
Leg hwhip. It's a leg hwhip, Brian.