Ive been watching a few of Catalans games on catchup and I reckon that if Jamie played for them, he wouldn't have been banned for. Some of his incidents as Cats get away with high shots, flopping, leading with the forearm constantly lying on.and as we all know, when play goes against them stopping the game with false head injuries, which the officials don't pick up on

Wait until Kirkhall see's this thread. It will proper make his day.

Acton doesn't really do too much of that stuff, it's off the ball nonsense that he gets himself into bother with.

Decision to appeal the ban is biting now, could've done with him Friday, if for no other reason, to give someone a rest ahead of mpg.

Bird appealed after pleading guilty to a very dangerous spear tackle. Got reduced thats justice

Throw.

Thats ok then

Blah blah blah, it is what it is, the guys reputation does him no favours. Do I think he was hard done to, probably, but there is no point bleating on about it, it's not going to change the RFLs mind.

As for false head injuries, as frustrating as it I wouldn't like to be the ref who calls it wrong

Maybe but at the LSV everytime we went forward and broke their line , one of them went down holding the head refs should be wise to it and at least give a verbal warning. My original point was that the Catalan players seem to have a free reign on foul play. One example being Richie Mylers tripping, was it seven warnings at the last count ?

Spot on.

In the first half v hull kr they did loads of head hunting and got away with most of it

Game management..

Game management and cheating, very fine line

I'm a Leyther, born and bred.I share the same frustration as all.I don't have an answer,in the same way NJ won't have one. Plenty on here think they know it all.

Lets see.

I dispute your suggestion that our players deliberately engaged in foul play as part of the game plan. TS would never countenance that.

It was Catalan I was meaning re the head hunting

its rugby not tiddlywinks get on with it

Thanks for the Fanfare Harold



Well Leythersteve, your on dodgy ground on here suggesting Jamie Acton has been unfairly treated


I watched the Hull v Wigan game and as soon as Liam Watts smashed McIlorums face in (incidently, McIlorum was concussed

) I knew Watts would be cleared. Any Leigh player, not just Jamie or Hock would have had the book thrown at them had they committed that offence, don't forget, this was Watts 3rd Red Card of this season


How could he be cleared to play again this season? Its been said the injury was due to poor tackling technique by McIlorum

So presumably, Ben Reynolds must be to blame for Greg Bird smashing his face in


There's been a catalogue of incidents since Jamie's, on a weekly basis we see foul tackles not being punished, Willie Isa and Ryan Atkins being two of the most prominent perpetrators. Even our good friend Greg Bird, was given a four match ban for a 'Spear tackle' however, this was downgraded to three matches on appeal as apparently, it was [uonly [/u a dangerous throw


I remember Phil Clarke discussing Acton's actions and saying; he thought the 10 match punishment was harsh, moments later the news filtered through live on Sky that Jamie's ban, had been increased to four Months, on appeal! The look of embarrassment on Clarkes face was priceless

he never said another word! In fact Phil, in future save your 'on Air' criticism for your own club Wigan

Catalan don't take many prisoners, Widnes players will need to wear Crash helmets on Saturday the 'tackling' from the Cats will be fearsome, as always

I wonder what the Review Panel with decide on Monday

Any Cats players suspended for MPG ?
Sam Moe, Justin Horo, Remi Casty,Louie Anderson and Ben Garcia are all rough and tough nuts !

My points exactly Kirkhall. Well put

I am with Kirkhall & Leythersteve ,but can anyone tell me why we're being treated like this?

There will be no Catalans players 'up before the beak' next Monday. Their discipline is now exemplary!!

After all the headshots vs Kr, that is totally unbelievable. What a farce. Watch this space next week

Being a HKR season ticket holder and attendee at the game between Catalans and my team, I'm intrigued at how Leigh fans saw things with regard to all these head high tackles that no one observed during the game?

Aiton got warned by Hicks for one of them

There were no Catalans players cited by the review panel, in the game at Hull KR, which is highly unusual by Catalans' standards. They must be taking the considerable pressure very well!