No. He was and still is totally oblivious to it. He knew that it was trivial to spear tackle someone though. If only he'd done that instead.

With two others though...

I have no problem with the shoulder charge being outlawed and punished, due to the possibility of brain damage if contact is made with the head. However, unless you make contact with the head you shouldn't face a ban.
What I do have a problem with however is the three Widnes players getting away with dropping Whiting on his head.
Is there no potential risk there?

Of course not. Are you stupid?

No wonder people have had enough.

Same here, mate. I've been falling out of love with SL for a while now and the last few months has really taken the biscuit.

My reply was to your final question btw, and tongue in cheek

I know pal.

It's sad to see people saying they are falling out of love with the game..you do know you will end up around the range or b& m or garden centres! Lol

What about the spear tackle on Arundel in the first half?

I'd probably switch my subscription to Premier and watch the NRL. Keep an eye open for SL results but not bother watching.

Assume you mean on Whiting, and a slap on the wrists for all 3 of them

snap out of it man...# COYH

tbh i think similar complaints are being made about the aussie game at the moment too

No there was a similar incident with Arundel in first half near East stand that even the officials missed. Would like to see a video of it.

Steve Ganson has checked it over with his fellow experts so don't worry it must have been fine.

The RFL will ban Ellis for 2 games, touch rugby is coming.

Without Ellis I can only see a Salford victory.

It's Widnes, innit? Part of the Leeds, Wakey, Widnes, RFL support-trio network. Are we seeing the start of the Pearson, Hudgel et al payback for not towing the RFL line? For the life of me I can't see any other reason for such blatent, not inconsistency, but pure and simple plain old-fashioned discrimination.



Fuming and exhausted.

The decision not to charge the Widnes players is made to look even more stupid with the news on guy playing for Newcastle this morning has broke his neck. (C4 & C5 Vertebrae).

Getting players into those positions is something that needs clamping down on.

Make that 2 Salford vicitories

He was probably tracking Talanoa or something.

Not sure if I'm in the minority, but I much prefer watching defence to attack.
I'd rather see a 6-6 game full of great defending and big tackles than a 40-38 game full of full length trys and the like.
While I agree that our players need to be safe (feels weird saying that after the latest news on McKinnon over in Aus) I can't help but think the game is turning soft. By all means punish a shoulder charge to the head, but everybody loves seeing a big hit, prop on prop. It motivates the team and fans.

Have you not seen the NRL for a bit? The same disciplinary "problems" are happening here.

Some bright spark will have suggested that a shoulder charge to the body can cause whiplash, so let's ban it altogether.

I wonder how many of our injuries over the last few years have been caused by "illegal" tackles?

It's getting to a point where general distain for how the RFL do things is outweighing the love for my club/the sport that drives me to still pay attention. I'm sure I'm not the only one.