A Canadian team shouldn't be allowed into SL full stop. It'll end in tears and Argyle might end up biting someone himself.

Also, the fact that the RFL call it an ALLEGATION indicates they won't do anything about it.

There have been plenty of dodgy calls in Perpignan over the years, when there arent quite the selection of camera angles etc and I cant see it being too different over there. In theory, it should cut both ways

Innocent until proven guilty. To be honest I haven’t seen the video neither am I going to watch it. If it is as clear cut as most are suggesting then I’m sure he’ll get a ban.

He point being that until the disciplinary hearing has taken place then it is an allegation of biting.

That's supposed to be news? It's gone on for years and RL clubs do it. It's a topic that comes up every so often on here so I'm surprised that folk don't already know.

In all seriousness do they have enough covered seating to meet the superleague minimum standards? Or will we have another example of RFL bending the rules just because that team plays in a fashionable and desirable metropolis like Wakefield?

Lot's of pure jealousy pouring from the same old posters time and time again. Rather than commenting on the 1000 beer guzzlers how about the ones that are sitting watching the game? There may not be the near 8k crowd as announced but looking at images from the game there was at least 5k+ sat in the stands watching the greatest game.

Not bad for a 'nearly' two year old club in a city with no RL history.

What average crowds have London & Halifax knocked out this year?

I don't care to join a measuring contest about crowds - the OT was about a biting incident; which looked fairly conclusive on the slo-mo footage and if so, should see the offender given a lengthy, if not permanent ban. It's about the lowest thing a player can do on the field, short of inserting a digit into the anus, and deserves the opprobrium of everyone who cares about the game.

Hard to pin it on Rowley directly as some have done, but he does seem to have a 'brand,' which is less than savoury.

Sent home by the club to UK with immediate effect

"Toronto Wolfpack can confirm that following this weekend’s game the Club has stood Jack Bussey down from the team camp. He will be returning to the UK with immediate effect."

Feel free to resume your discussion on crowd size.

Squad player at best, you won't miss the dirty fatty !

What happeed....did Rowley find another monitor, because he said yesterday in the BBC site.....






It's not that argyle needs the money at the moment, but the blatant lies to make the wolfpack seem more and more like the messiah that the game needs is just tiresome.....6k for a 2nd tier side in their 2nd year is brilliant regardless of freebies etc.....but christ on a bike, the blatant lies are just tedious.

Bingo! Embarrassing level of bitterness in this thread, precisely the sort of thinking that is holding the sport back.

8 game ban plus an additional ban for some other offence in the match.

Is 8 enough??

Sorry that's a load of hooey! The people holding the sport "back" are either the SL Clubs heading by Lenagan and McManus, or the RFL and Hetherington, or even Sky, not the opinions of an Internet forum that in reality has no effect compared to the others.

Jack Bussey (Toronto Wolfpack) pleaded guilty to the Grade F Biting charge vs Toulouse. He was given an 8 match suspension and a £250 fine. In addition in the same game he had accepted a 1 match penalty notice for a high tackle. As the biting offence was committed prior to the high tackle under the sentencing guidelines, the 1 match suspension was increased to 2 matches. Making a total of 10 matches.

Where's he going to end up now? If Toronto have retained his registration, then he will count the 3 games including the MPG as suspended, so he will miss about 1/3rd of next year.......he;ll be lucky to collect a wage from the game until at least April/May 2019......silly silly boy!

Old Jack Bussey is a shameless hussy.

To be honest I would have given him 20 matches with no chance of appealing and that would stop any one else from doing it we do not want it in our game

No it wouldn’t.

It absolutely won't stop anyone else doing it - but it's important to send a strong message to the people both within and outwith the game, that there is zero tolerance for this kind of behaviour.

What do you think about James Graham now, 6 years after he bit Billy Slater?

Jack will know he's done bad, and will be beating himself up about it. There will be a number of Championship clubs after him now.