It was St.esteve V Toulouse https://streamable.com/s3c11 Worst thing ever seen on a rugby field either code. Player should be banned from any sport and spend time in prison

It was St.esteve V Toulouse https://streamable.com/s3c11 Worst thing ever seen on a rugby field either code. Player should be banned from any sport and spend time in prison

Surely a ban for life?

That is the worse I have seen. Banned for life is the only punishment.

Disgusting. No wonder our sport is where it is when we have people like that playing.

Regards

King James

Has made the Daily Mail online!

He should be done for a assault, the referee is not apart of the game in the same way the players are. Absolutely disgusting that.

Dally. You really are the gift that keeps on giving.

Regards

King James

So if a rugby league player did the same to another rugby league player should he not face any disciplinary?

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King James

Awful act by the player.

But using it to bemoan where the whole sport is at? Ridiculous. Let me guess, players from all other sports are angels who don't disgrace their sport.

... and Telegraph.

Should be banned for life. Then again, Flower should've been banned for life.

26 players on the pitch, one thumps the ref who lies on the pitch lifeless, leaving 25 others of whom I see one player go to the ref and check him !

You really are boring mate.

Other than the 2-3 opposition players who go straight for the attacker, I think the rest are in shock including his own team mates. How many times have we seen that in RL over the years, none as far as I can remember.

The only time I heard of something similar of any capacity was I remember a mates dad worked in a warehouse in Leigh back in the mid-late 80's and a colleague of his had played for Leigh East/Miners and had recently been banned for life for head-butting the referee.

Despicable action but does the players nationality need to be brought into it?

The title of this thread could have been worded better. Something like - Disgusting: Rugby League Player knocks out Referee in France. I will probably get called a snowflake or politically correct for this one..

should be in jail...end of.

People seem not to have noticed that the referee is Benjamin Casty, the brother of Catalans Dragons' famous captain Remi Casty. That makes the whole thing even more troubling.

Why? Is he worth more than other people?

Doesn't matter who the ref is, or who he is related to.

Get your damned French loving, French tickling, bias, narrow minded, poster goading blinkers off for once in your sad pathetic life

The Casty family is an iconic French rugby league family. Attacking a member of that family is like attacking French rugby league as a whole.

Can't help but feel that the ref made a meal of it.

Maybe they should all stay in France to play their rugby league

Disgraceful from the player. He should never play the greatest game of all ever again. We have all had a go at the ref from the stands but not one rugby league fan will have enjoyed watching that video. I would imagine the player who attacked the ref will be more worried about the legal ramifications rather than never playing again.

Cracking punch to be fair.

It was only a tap.
I can't believe he went down from it.