I do like how Wane wears his heart in his sleeve, if it wasn't for him then the regular season would have been a pointless.

However there is a line, defending your own player fair enough (even when you have indefensible incidents like MM), i don't mind calling for bans if it was his player that got a bad shot, but calling for a ban of a player your playing against next is out of order IMO and he should be warned or fined for his comments. A coach should bot be allowed to make comments about disciplinary trials of another of an incident that has nothing to do with his club.

I'm no Leeds fan, but for me a one game ban is spot on.

It’s one thing for the Leeds coach trying to get his own player off the hook, that’s quite natural.

It’s another when an opposition coach tries to get the said player banned – very underhand.

Is it Wane starting to feel the pressure?

Not sure, he appears to be a very fervent Wigan fan, with the odd outburst, like many fans.

I just think he needs to rein it in a bit. I admire his passion, however, as a coach, he needs a little more decorum.

Wanes comments and appearing to try and influence the disciplinary panel will only serve to further motivete the Rhinos.
There could be an upset on the cards, again !

The RFL have refuted claims that having a one man disciplinary panel of Shaun Wane was in any way biased.

Spot on.

It's poor form when a coach comes out and publicly makes such a statement. Wane should be warned about his future conduct IMO.

IMO it's poor form that West Yorkshire is over represented on the disciplinary panel (or at least it was last time I saw a list of members - it's hard to check because there doesn't seem to be a full list on the RFL's website, which is typical). If anyone has the info and can post it on here I'd be interested to see what the make up of the panel currently is. It may be that the good men of Leeds, Bradford etc are entirely fair when they are judging players from other areas (or their own) but this is also a question of perception - justice must be seen to be done. No matter how impartial the decision making process actually is, the suspicion of bias will always remain if the panel is seen to be unbalanced.

I've long said that the RL disciplinary tribunal should be chaired by a judge, like its RU counterpart. As in so many other areas (apart from the actual game itself, thank God!) RL has a lot to learn from RU.

The Chairman of the disciplinary committee which decided this was Peter Charlesworth who is a high court judge,

Thanks - actually having looked him up it looks like he was a circuit judge, but I won't split hairs, a retired circuit judge is fine! Does he chair all the panel decisions?

I'm not aware of a RL team called 'West Yorkshire,' so in what way are you suggesting that panel would be prone to bias?

one of the three who sat on the mcguire 'case' was former rhinos assistant coach graham hallas