Where does it say Lee has been banned for the punch? I notice Travis Burns escaping punishment. Doesn't sound right.

I'm sure its just a 1 game ban! Let's hope tomkins is fit.

I'm sure its just a 1 game ban! Let's hope tomkins is fit.

This "everyone is out to get us" line peddled by some on this thread and alot of our fans in general is embarrassing.

There really is no limit to the conspiracy theories rugby league fans will dream up.

Nothing on RFL disciplinary site on the punching charge as yet; but as he can't now use EGP (having used it for the shoulder charge) I wouldn't expect a decision until later in the day anyway. He'll surely have pleaded guilty though & a 1 game ban will almost certainly follow.

Burns was dealt with in the same way as Griffin & Walker; an EGP was accepted & therefore no further action. All 3 players will be unable to use the EGP for 12 months.

Travs Burns didn't escape punishment at all, he got charged with a Grade A offence, same as Lee for the punches he threw.

I really don't understand,
Some one decides to start punching you in the face and you have 2 options,
retaliate and have a dig back as nature dictates
or stand passively by and let said person crack me until i looses conciousness

I know what I would do

Butcher,I think you will find that a shoulder charge is not a singularly automatic sending off.if you read the charge, the offence is for secondary contact with the head,which is debateable.
As regards " red tinted glasses " I personally just want fair play,and to give a head butting offence the same punishment, as the Tommy Lee offence,frankly beggars belief.

Aye, you're right. I was just skimming through the disciplinary stuff and misread it. I thought we were going to be weakened for two games but that might not be the case. I'm afraid I had a bit of premature emasculation there.

Having been easy touches for years we are now playing an aggressive game and this is showing in our defensive displays recently. However, if a tackle is fractionally late or the technique is faulty it looks worse when applied aggressively. So charges are not brought about because the RFL has an agenda against us, charges come with an aggressive style of play. We will need to get used it.

As fans all you can ask for is consistancy , just watching the superleague show and i cant see the difference between mcshane`s late hit and tommy lees .

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I'm sure referee Mr Silverwood and video ref Mr Bentham will be consistent on Friday night.

I didn't read the full charge. If what you say is right then I agree with you. Secondary head contact didn't happen.

Tommy lee banned for 1 game £300 fine. .

I think we've come off pretty well considering all the charges raised. Tommy will be a big miss on friday though.

The long forgotten Howarth to come back in?

Ready made scapegoat if we lose.

I wonder if Theo might run at hooker, Locke at fullback and Evalds in the halves.

No not Howarth in my opinion, he should be left to continue his Basket and Hat making course alongside MULLANEY PLATT & GLEESON

And a player that was constantly being hit late after a kick including being shoulder charged that is not handled by the officials should also just stand there and take it?

Fair play to Salford. I thought a lot of the teams tactics where pretty close to ABH at times but if you can get away with it and it helps grind down the opposition then why not?

Don't try it against Leeds though, officials don't like Rhino's players being roughed up.

I'd like to think that we could make the play offs, but I think it's too late especially on the back of being handed bans for our lads.

But if we don't there's always next season when we can hit the with "LOCKE, HOCK AND TWO SMOKING GRIFFINS".

Come on the lads.

Three smokin Griffins Dec.

He's getting old.

He remembers the 1923 Cup Final played at Garsworth between The Barrow Smelting lads association and Pontefract and District Mormon tree-felling Club. A game attended by 300,000 smoking males with rickets and five thousand cap-twirling juveniles without shoes. An exciting encounter that saw the visitors stroll to a blistering 2 - 0 victory. The winning penalty brought about when Ernest Twentwhistle insisted that the referee give a penalty against him due to running out of tabs before half time. Gordon Grungethorpe argued that he'd lent him a fag thereby negating the penalty, but forthright Twentwhistle sent himself off claiming that his unsportsmanlike behaviour had brought the whole game into question. After lending Grungethorpe his first team cravat he jogged off into the changing sheds and ended a career of sporting finery.

RL memories. You can't buy them.

Well we don't know if the other Griffin smokes yet! He might just smoulder. I could have put "Two Smoking Walnes" but it sounds like it might need urgent medical attention.

By the way son if you're going to tell the story; get it right! The referee ruled that the fag that Grungethorpe lent him was not technically a fag, as it wasn't a "Capstan full strength" and thereby too "girlie" for a rugby league player.

Them were the days though. No poofy programmes like "booits an all" then.........but Stevo was there and had just hung his booits up.

You two remind me of an old Will Hay Film where Harbottle (looking 85+) goes and sees his DAD. All we need now is a new Poster called Butchers Grandad who no doubt will take us back to the mid 1800`s.

I thought it sounded like a trip to the full of hoes stadium Castlefield circa 2014, obviously minus the bumper crowd