Well, well, well, here's a real shock. NOT! Mr Makinson has his 3 game ban reduced on appeal. Now wouldn't you think with his past handling of his lengthy ban his appeal should have been upheld and now free to play us. The SL discipline system is a farce and may seem a little bias one may think.
The Rl imo is leaning towards a final between Stains v dragons and what a wet dream for them is that. I just pray we can have a fab run in and finally lift the SL championship.

Not surprised that the ban was reduced. Should of been upheld but there you go. What I do find amazing is that his previous recorded particularly against the same opposition was not taken into consideration. I wonder how Tom Lineham feels about this?

You honestly think the SL / RFL want a Saints Catalan final? I think they’d be terrified of it to be honest with the crowd you would expect from it. My guess is they would prefer a Leeds v Saints/Wigan final to put some back in the coffers.

The only consistency the disciplinary board show is consistent leniency towards St Helens. Joke.

Why do the RL need to give Saints or indeed anyone else assistance when we have just lost to Wakefield?

He was late, and seemed to make no attempt to raise his arms (to make a legal tackle), and the result was a clearly outlawed shoulder charge, yet somehow the panel decides reckless about the outcome"."

So by 'tried to tackle', they mean he made contact with the man, as that's the only part of a tackle he succeeded in...?!?!?

In every high shot at least there's at least an attempt to use an arm in trying to tackle, so will that be used as a mitigation for those in the future too?

Well I was going to add to last weeks thread regarding Hughes ban for late hit then the next week couple of players binned for same offence but not dealt with by the panel. Late hit is late hit simples, you punish one guy for it you have to punish all. Anyway look forward to Saddened reply to this as to why Makinson deserved a reduction.

Come on lads, this is getting borderline redvee behaviour! I agree the disciplinary panel has been a joke for ages, but 2 games and a red card seem sufficient for that tackle.

What tackle?

All I saw was a deliberate shoulder charge.

Nonsense. 3 game ban these days at least. Lineham got 3 for barely barging into the back of someone and 3 games more than Tommeh for the same offence. Commentators keep saying 'yeah but he's not dirty makinson' erm he's grabbed a players knackers (as low as you can get) and then committed a very reckless headshot on a player. What is he going to do next that he didn't mean to?

Oddly though his disciplinary charge was for a high shot, no specific mention of it being late, or a shoulder charge:

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As other posters have stated, the disciplinary, like the RL hierarchy has sadly become a joke.

I wonder how many titles we would have won without the RFL and refs rigging things in favour of Saints.

and Wigan......at least one...big shout to Russell Smith... you f***ing c***

But that's not what he was charged with. The charge carried a 1, 2 or 3 game ban. Seeing as most players stay on the field and get their bans retrospectively and makinson got a red then 2 games seems fair in my opinion. Not that the disciplinary panel has ANY credibility after lineham's 3 game ban earlier this season which was the biggest joke I've seen in 35 years of watching RL.

I am aware of the charge that he appeared for the disciplinary panel for.

My post was about what I saw when watching the game on the TV.

Do you not think that it wasn`t a shoulder charge then?

About the same number that we have through paying off refs and cheating the Salary Cap.

None..it would still be saints Leeds or Wigan who'd win it