Fielden wasn't doing anything to pevent Carvell playing the ball.

If Carvell stands up on the mark he has no problem playing the ball.

Nothing wrong with what Fielden did and when you are 1 ft from your own line the last thing you do is step back and give the attacker more ground.

Was definately no penalty and led to a try - bad decision.

I've just watched it again. The replay clearly shows that the penalty is actually given whilst Carvell is still on the ground, and by the time he stands up (much less than 1m forward) the ref has blown up.

Fielden does not clear the ruck quickly enough. He is trying to win the wrestle, and he gives a penalty. I had last seen it a couple of days ago when I first commented on this, however just watching it again now, it was 100% clear. Carvell doesn't even get to play the ball.

I know the commentators aren't exactly the most knowledgable, but Stevo certainly agreed it was a penalty and stated it was quite clear that Fielden didn't clear the ruck.

one match ban for raising the knee but found not guilty for abusive language

- cant they lip read

They are complete jokers.

Bent B'stards

Yea they can, but Fielden claimed it was aimed at an opponent and not the ref.
A blaitant lie but hard to prove I would have thought.

A ban for him raising the knee has been coming for a while on the back of a couple of warnings.

As much as he's not been at his best whilst at Wigan and he did get man handled on Friday he'll still be quite a big loss.

Fieldens 'decent' form is better then most props 'good' form.

It's probably not much use trying to reason - but as has been pointed out Carvell didn't move off the mark because he wasn't even stood up. Fielden held him done for a long period which was almost enough for a penalty in itself, and then kneeled right in front of him. In my opinion the penalty was harsh but given Fielden made no effort to get out of the way, and was not being held back by Carvell, it's hard to argue against it. Every week in Super League penalties are given where players do not make an effort to clear the play the ball, and acting like a petulent child afterwards doesn't make it a wrong decision.
The lack of a charge for foul language is a strange one.

Club might be appealing the ban yet.

It's like the old song. If the right one don't get you then the left one will.
He was going to get done for one of the offences.

Except why would you possibly call an opponent bent? There's only one person on the field you'd aim that at (assuming the "cheating" meaning as opposed to another).

RFL once again showing themselves to be a joke.

But then, why would you care with a name like that ????

On crutches

a bigger punishment would be making him play the rest of the season without having a game off.

suspending him for one game punishes Salford

Nice joke pal, you sure showed us

i wish i had his wit.

I see the Dire have won their cup final.

As in, calling Carvell bent (a cheater) for milking a penatly, perhaps?

The biggest cheat is Fielden on nearly every tackle he makes he trys to make out he is being held down by the tackled player. He needs to stop trying to con the Ref and get on with his game maybe then the fans would not be on his back as much.

In a word.... no.

Seriously, I'd be worried about anyone who honestly thinks he wasn't shouting at the ref.

I actually find the thing quite amazingly funny at how the RFL can possibly come up with a not guilty considering such damning evidence. Fielden will be making friends with O.J. soon.

I'd worry more about someone who equated shouting at a ref with armed robbery and murder. But then Fielden is a Wigan player and you are a message board troll, so I don't think it's too surprising.

Na, just collected the usual 2pts!

Wigan yet again get punished by the RFL for something that goes on in every game every weekend.