Got a one game ban for Grade B dangerous contact.

Someone else’s gain

And some people posting believe this behaviour is all part of the game ????

Is this a ban to do with Arona’s injury?

It was Lawrence who went in low & tight on tini's legs, Chester made ref that it went on report !

1 game ban vs season for our player makes sense

Yeah keep things in proportion eh?

Players would certainly have a different approach to tackling if their ban was equal to any absence due to an injury that they had caused / contributed to.
It would certainly stop the cynical stuff from the likes of Wigan.

Sadly, I dont think this would ever be agreed.

I still think back to Chester's first season in charge. Wigan away, O'Loughlin high tackle on Annakin, Annakin out for the rest of the season. The punishment should've fitted the crime.

Wasn’t it KR player or Catalans player that got an extended ban when they found a players was more serious. Surely we should be speaking to the RFL about this which should result in Lawrence getting further games.

have you even read the charge? Because for some reason the minutes haven’t been released, so how do you know what the decision was for?
Lawrence has been playing the game for a decade and in that time has only ever until now received a single one game ban. This despite the fact that he’s played over 250 games at the highest level and is usually the guy with the highest tackle count.
Blame the ref for not calling held, or Arona for not surrendering to the tackle, or wearing blades instead of studs. Don’t blame a guy as straight as they come. To suggest he should be banned for the season is just laughable given his previous record- Go cry to the RFL- they’ll just laugh in your face.

How very respectful of an equally straight-up, honest player who has just suffered a season-ending injury.

Personally, I don't have much truck with the ban should = the time out with injury argument; it's fraught with difficulty and would throw up as many unfair decisions as the current system does.

Some injuries are just unfortunate accidents and we have to live with them; some are the result of deliberate foul play, and I understand the frustration when other teams appear to 'benefit' from a retrospective ban - but I genuinely don't think there's a viable and practicable alternative system.

I wouldn't call for Lawrence to be banned for the season but a one game ban is equally as ridiculous.
We have been subject to a string of 'dubious' incidents this season which have led to players sidelined for weeks, or in Arona's case the season.
A lot of these 'tackles' are a deliberate attempt to injure players and it's time the authorities woke up and sent out a clear message to players and coaches.
This does not just apply to WT but also other clubs players .

I don't agree that these tackles are a deliberate attempt to injure the player.
I do think they are an attempt to stop the player with little regard for their safety.
The RFL need to take a stand on that.

So lawrence got a one match ban wouldn't it be fairer to say that when he played Wakefield next that ban should come into force, Not have the team they play the week after getting the benefit.

It also works in our favour at times, we were delighted when McShane got a ban, the fact that we didn't benefit from it was our fault. I can't imagine how complex such a delayed system would be, not for me thansk.

It isn’t possible but the penalty should be where the guilty player misses every game that the injured player misses plus one more (or what ever) game.

What happens if it's a career ending injury?

It's a tough game and sometimes the tackler just gets it wrong, not always a malicious. To talk about banning a player like Lawrence for the rest of the season is not credible solution for me.

Lawrence's ban was for a tackle on Kirmond in the 77th minute,

So if Kirmo plays next game, should Lawrence ban be quashed???

Oh dear- don’t we all look a bit silly now for frothing at the mouth and calling for him to be out for the same time as Arona.

NFA

Seriously this is how you get your kicks, all this anger because you lost. Tragic.

Hey I’m not at all angry- I’m laughing my head of at how silly the majority of you now look getting worked up over an incident that wasn’t. And just being so absolutely plain wrong in your single mindedness that lawremce was to be blamed for Aronas injury. Talk about a lynch mob!

I did question early on in the thread if you were sure you knew why the ban had been given. Didn’t seem to matter to you though when some of you were calling for a player to be banned for the season - Without knowing the facts.
The match review panel states he makes contact around the WAIST, but you lot on here and on social media all definitely saw something else yeah?

You need to get out more ifthis is what makes you laugh, I give up thete's no hope for you.