Both,either remain on topic or create your own please.

I'm getting fed up with this derailing of threads.

The choice is yours.

What did Matty Dawson do to get 5 matchs? I think that Matautia tackle has got blown out of proportion, a red card is enough for me!

He plays for Leigh.

And another one who quotes " they are all against Leigh "

I have heard this one for 50 + years now, long long time for a conspiracy theory, are you being serious or sarcastic expecting that is the answer some will give?

As a set of supporters we need to give up it makes us sound soft.

Ok, can you find any other case, were someone has been given a 5 match ban for questioning the integrity of a Match Official?

You really haven’t a clue or you are being deliberately obtuse, you know damn well what Dawson did, and given the current tariff for the offence, he was lucky.

Can you name someone that has called a ref a cheat, and got less than 5 games?

No, but I've heard just as bad with a lenient outcome. I guess this has set a precedent now. We'll see.

I think there will be general change in attitude from the officials to the ever increasing cheating, gamesmanship and confronting referees. The games are getting less watchable as time passes.

I think so too. but we need consistency.

Although i don't know what he said,but............

Bradford Bulls youngster Reiss Butterworth will serve a one-match penalty notice for Grade B foul and abusive language to a match official.

Addressing the word ‘cheating’ to the ref is the reason for the difference in ban. Nothing to do with inconsistency.

So effin at the ref should get you a lesser grading so long as you don't mention the word cheating.

Yes, that’s about it, abuse the ref using foul language you get a ban, call his integrity into doubt and the ban increases. I suppose replacing ‘bar steward’ with one of the common four letter insults would add another match.

Would you rather be called a F****** w***** or be accused of being a thief?

I get called all sorts me ,i couldn't care less. If someone accuses me of a thief,then if can prove it then fair enough. otherwise i would tell them to F*** O**

Just trying to make a point about the difference between general insults with bad language, and having your integrity questioned. Replace the word thief with cheat, or fraud or corrupt etc... Which is why Dawson got 5 games, and others get 1 game for abusive language.

Faraimo takes a Featherstone players head off blantantly, red card, 2 match ban: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... mo-1566699 Matautia does a unmalicious tackle, gets it wrong, and gets 5 matches. The RFL is an absolute joke!

Faraimo takes a Featherstone players head off blantantly, red card, 2 match ban: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... mo-1566699 Matautia does a unmalicious tackle, gets it wrong, and gets 5 matches. The RFL is an absolute joke!

To suggest Kendall is a cheat or biased is ridiculous, he's neither, he's just downright incompetent much like many of his Referee colleagues


Brian McDermott's quoted comments were also disgraceful and a massive insult to the Leigh club! If I was DB I would be asking Leeds for an explanation! All seventeen Leigh players on duty at Fev have NRL or SL experience with eight full internationals ! The way McDermott was talking you'd think we were a Pub team looking for a scrap !
Its rich coming from Leeds, a club who employ JJB,Ferris,Cuthbertson, Ablett and co the list goes on........

The point is, any player verbally abusing the ref should automatically get a [size=1505[/size match ban, Then players might think twice in future. It should be that only the captain can question the refs decision,and leave it at that.

Quote ="Mookachaka"Faraimo takes a Featherstone players head off blantantly, red card, 2 match ban: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... mo-1566699 Matautia does a unmalicious tackle, gets it wrong, and gets 5 matches. The RFL is an absolute joke!'" For once and for all...lack of intent to injure isn't a defence (though possibly a mitigating factor) for dangerous tackles. His ban is firmly in line with similar tackles over the last two or three years.

Quote ="Mookachaka"Faraimo takes a Featherstone players head off blantantly, red card, 2 match ban: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... mo-1566699 Matautia does a unmalicious tackle, gets it wrong, and gets 5 matches. The RFL is an absolute joke!'" For once and for all...lack of intent to injure isn't a defence (though possibly a mitigating factor) for dangerous tackles. His ban is firmly in line with similar tackles over the last two or three years.

Quote ="Mookachaka"Faraimo takes a Featherstone players head off blantantly, red card, 2 match ban: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... mo-1566699 Matautia does a unmalicious tackle, gets it wrong, and gets 5 matches. The RFL is an absolute joke!'" Replace ‘unmalicious’ with ‘dangerous’ and it would be accurate, you could also add, ‘avoidable’.

Quote ="Mookachaka"Faraimo takes a Featherstone players head off blantantly, red card, 2 match ban: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... mo-1566699 Matautia does a unmalicious tackle, gets it wrong, and gets 5 matches. The RFL is an absolute joke!'" Replace ‘unmalicious’ with ‘dangerous’ and it would be accurate, you could also add, ‘avoidable’.

Some embarrassing victim mentality on display here

I recall watching a Leigh East match a few years ago when they had a very talented side, and their young hooker John Taylor after a peculiar set off officiating decisions told the referee to something off and was dismissed.

He got 8 games for that.