A bite apparently. But I dont recall Gale showing his arm (or wherever he claims to have been bitten) to the ref, so how it is proved I have no idea

Well if he is proven guilty of biting, we have lost him for a while, that's min grade E, he'd be looking at 4 to 8 games out. I'm surprised we've not heard more about it if that is the charge.

The fact is the Officials have been p155 poor as the decisions by the ref's or lack of regarding both Ferres & Westwood shows this. Now because the refs are not seen to be held accountable they now seem hell bent on carding players because they are sadly lacking in ability and sense as officials.
If the Watts incident was a red card then McShane should have seen a yellow for running in trying to throw his handbag, Shenton was also guilty of a similar incident in the 2nd half that saw Turget sin binned and banned for an elbow to the face of the tackled player.
The Officials under the stewardship of Ganson are a complete farce and the standard and level of consistency is pretty poor. Unless the RFL tackle the issues with regards the standard of officials the sport will continue to suffer. For me both Childs and Hicks as linesmen where pretty much a 'look at me' type of official and since becoming Ref's that ego seems to be growing along with some of the other ref's. Whilst they are an important facet of the game they have to realise they are not some kind of RL Gods.

Dave K said "any contact with the head, whether accidental or not, is a penalty".

I was referring directly to the wording of that rule.

Watts charged grade B no EGP available

Watts grade B . No epg.
Kelly not mentioned.

I think he meant the win was 100% deserved, not the red card.

Wow, Justin Carney could be in a lot of trouble. Grade F!

Any charge for watts is a footing joke. The disciplinary process is a disgrace

Didn't Amor get the same and it was decided SOS, anything else is laughable.

Fair assessment of the game from Darryl Powell on a certain video site under "Powell disappointed".

Seems he's a Fonua fan.

146m for Mahe, 143m for Taylor
Av gain 12.83 for Connor with 2 assists

Interesting one this. If he only called him a fat c*** is that worthy of a ban? I've never really thought of ryan bailey as fat.

Whats baffling is Carney is mixed race isn't he?

I've got black mates who say stuff to each other I'd be arrested for saying

Same. Nowt on what my Jewish mate comes out with. But then just calling someone a "black c--t" doesn't come up in a jokey way amongst friends I'd imagine, and it must have been said in a nasty tone. Just weird really.

Rule – 15.1(b)Detail – High Tackle – Careless – Ball carrier dips Grade – B

Got a funny feeling we may see along the lines the following for Wattsy, hope I'm wrong but Hull teams (whether us or our poor relations) never seem to get a break at Red Hall.

"The committee whilst finding the player guilty of misconduct believe as he plays for Hull FC it warrants a Grade B charge and can not be downgraded to a Grade A. Taking all the circumstances into account with the regards the fact the player missed almost the entirety of the game and the player has already had a 4 game ban, the committee feel that the sending off the player was not sufficient in this case and he should be banned for 2 games."

You've just given them the perfect statement

I hope the hearing tonight goes Watts' way. Should have been a penalty at the most in my opinion. On Good Friday we had a similar incident with Roberts hitting Tupou in virtually the same circumstance - Tupou falling in to the tackle and got hit round the head, and went off with concussion (although he came back on). How is the tackler meant to back out? It's impossible. We were not happy it was even a penalty as if Tupou hadn't have slipped then the tackle was around the waist. I saw the Watts incident exactly the same. It's a contact sport, these things happen. Well done on the win, the defensive effort was awesome. Good luck for the rest of the season, see you at our place on July 1st. I hope you bring plenty over like you normally do and we have another great atmosphere like we had Sunday.

Looking at that I expect Watts to get one match due to his record, he shouldn't but that what I expect to happen.

Well that's confidence booster in the ability of the disciplinary process. Apart from the Gale charge Watts is also mentioned for another incident, though it is no charge, in the 32nd minute. I blame Dr Who.

His record with us is actually very good, only 2 charges found him guilty, one an EGP (NFA) and the other the 4 match ban earlier in the season.

That's good then, I thought they was more, so it should be SOS then inline with Amor