No Charge Quote Player making legitimate attempt to tackle opponent who has been tackled by team mates. Opponent is going to ground and player adjusts his tackling technique to account for this however some contact is made with opponent’s head, however contact is inadvertent. - See more at: www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/dis ... vvb4F.dpuf'" But a penalty given, and 2 points kicked against us, hmmmm.

No Charge Quote Player making legitimate attempt to tackle opponent who has been tackled by team mates. Opponent is going to ground and player adjusts his tackling technique to account for this however some contact is made with opponent’s head, however contact is inadvertent. - See more at: www.rugby-league.com/the_rfl/dis ... vvb4F.dpuf'" But a penalty given, and 2 points kicked against us, hmmmm.

I don't think there was a lot he could have done about it, the report is about right in my opinion. Dissapointed about the penalty but that's by the by now. I'm glad he isn't missing this week anyway.

Was never anything in it, was surprised the Saints fans kicked up such a fuss.

Theydidnt till they started squinting at the screen looking for something that didn't happen, following wilkin and his leg twitches.

I'm a little concerned about this, as its the second(arguably third with the Farrell incident) that we've been on the wrong end of this sort of reffing decision, you had the ratchford sinbin v cas, where he was found to have done nothing at all, but a penalty and yellow card given.

Then this, which is a tackle you'll see every week, no one reacted to the tackle wire or saints, ref or touch judge.

Nothing in it, but it goes on report and a kickable penalty given.

It's sawft decisions

And as it happened a match winning two points because if they had not kicked that goal the penalty when we scored our final try there would have been 1 point score difference, in which case we Gidley would have kicked the conversion.

I think the real clincher was the oscar winning performance from Wilkin.

Contact made with the opponent's head with the shoulder is a penalty, regardless of whether it's intentional or not. Nothing further than that is necessary but of course it was a penalty.

I'm pretty sure if the same incident was roles reversed the Warrington crowd would have got animated too.

I think Atkins was clumsy but its was not intensional, even so, it was up to Atkins to put himself in a better position during the tackle.

There was contact with the head off the shoulder, penalty. No complaints from me, Huddersfield Friday night.

He made contact with the head, penalty, simples. No complaints from me either, except that we see plenty of contact with the head every week that goes unpunished.

As an aside, if Wilkins brain/neck was so badly hurt that his legs started to twitch involuntarily then the medical staff at Saints should consider getting him tested thoroughly and resting him for a week or two. If it was deliberate to make the injury/contact appear worse than it was then the RFL need to consider resting him for a week or two. Neither, especially the latter, is going to happen of course.

Nar he milked it. If he said he didn't he's a liar.
It was Wilkin's answer to going down in the box and rolling over 6 times then grabbing a knee.

To be fair, I may be being a little harsh on Wilkin, but then I don't care as he's an annoying dirty scrote who only gets away with it time and again due to being the RFLs BBC poster boy.

But I'm getting fed up of seeing players from most clubs, though Catalan seem to be the worst for it, going down and staying there as if they've been knocked out cold after any head contact yet their medical staff rarely seem to feel the need to take them from the field for a head test.

To be fair to the Saints medical staff, Wilkin was taken from the field and not brought on again, he also (apparently) spent the night in hospital for precautionary reasons (according to some fans on the Saints RLFC fan page on Facebook)

Which is why I said I may be being a little harsh.

It's another example of the screen factoring in deciding outcomes in other areas apart from try scoring.

Not many blokes I despise more by what he does on the pitch than this bloke. ....

I saw the leg twitches and was actually quite concerned for him , then when he was told the stretcher was on he jumped up. .

This kind of is not for me and I do hope someone pulls this lover to task over this.


Ryan Bailey

Yeah the same hospital Darryl Powell sent one his players to with a suspected broken jaw after a "disgraceful" Warrington tackle. ..

They couldn't find the broken jaw but we're willing to fix Powells mard lip...

Don't think it was NHS. .. but sounds like a good hospital

The Cas incident was worse IMO because of the rumpus kicked up by Powell

Very surprised he didn't cop a ban for that. It was very deliberate and his third clear (and sly) shoulder charge of the night.

The RFL disciplinary committee's report states he made a valid attempt to tackle? I can only assume then that shoulder charges are back on the menu? No arms involved, just point of shoulder onto the base of Wilkin's skull. Dangerous? Yes. Reckless? Yes. Shoulder? Yes. Deliberate and unnecessary contact with head only? Yes. I'm not sure what criteria the RFL use, but it's all got very weird over at Red Hall this year. The impact wasn't very severe so I'm not suggesting any more than 1-2 games depending on his rap sheet, but to suggest it was a valid tackle is bizarre.

I would have to toss a coin to decide whom out of RD and Saddened are the 2 biggest tools on the entire forum, their both full of it!

Which may or may not be true, it's all about opinions I suppose.

However, according to the number of posts accredited to your user name, a mighty 7 in a year and judging by the quality of this one, a coin might not be the only thing you're tossing?

Bloody hell, wilkin looks good for someone that was unconscious, and twitching and then spent a night in hospital due to a head "injury"

He didn't even get a concussion related 7 day mandatory rest.

9 minutes, exactly the same tackle as Atkins last week, no penalty

Was there a load of twitching from the tackled player? Or did he just get up and get on with it because he's not a total ?