In the same game I can't believe Ratchford has got away with the putting excessive pressure on Abletts spine/neck area. He could of caused some serious injury to him.

he's showing his in depth knowledge of the game there

If he is guilty, Hardaker should be sacked from Leeds without question. No need for that.

Can someone help me here I'm interested in that one surely its the disciplinary committee that decides sending off sufficient not the review pane whose job is I thought to identify that a foul was committed, they have identified that it had, but passed judgement themselves when they should surely have passed it onto the disciplinary panel to decide the sentence? Unless the referee has got it really wrong if they are sent off surely they have at least to appear. Have I got that wrong?

If you have, that makes two of us, because that is my take on it also.

3 game ban in the NRL for an under 20s Origin player doing something similar.

If its any consolation, the disciplinary committee for NRL is just as inconsistent. Mind you, Ben Galea is on the panel

What did Hardaker do?

Ah right, people are to easy offended these days.

You think it's acceptable what Hardraker said?

What did actually say? just read homophobic comments

Shouldn't be as far as i'm aware.

They grade the offences don't they and it has nothing to do with a players previous?

How Scott Moore has got away with that is beyond me. Every bit as bad as Crookes.

I don't want to put it on here, but what looked to have said to the ref was unacceptable, he is a rile model, I one match ban would be acceptable, but I think he will get off as it will be hard to prove what he actually said, unless the ref put it in his report.

If the evidence is the sky sports video it might be hard to prove him guilty.

I wouldn't say anything of that nature is acceptable, but I do think these things can get blown out of proportion. Cant find the video footage, so cant really comment to much

Well it's National news now so it will get investigated by the RFL I am sure, on the Leeds board there is a link to a well know video site that is suppose to show it.

Interested to see what happens here.

I think it's on youtube as well

not that I can see, just someone from the L**ds board has linked to some speech specialist saying sound a lip ,movements don't always correlate.

Some of the wriggling from Leeds fans has been quite amusing tbh.

They'll be claiming Hardaker wasn't actually playing in that game next.

Would it also be against the law of the land to call someone a f****** F******?

I was just being ironic due to the poster seemingly believing that you can't mention youtube on here

It's pathetic, if it was a Wigan player who had done that they would be going nuts, same with lots defending Ablett for his kick to the head.

This is the video https://vine.co/v/Md0egWOePWp

This is the video https://vine.co/v/Md0egWOePWp

I'd not seen it before and i'm no expert on lip reading but I think it's reasonably clear what he's called him.

Has he actually apologised for it yet?

Peacock may not be completely in the clear either...

I'd hope he gets a stiff penalty for the homophobia. Nastiness like that has no place in society. Rugby League was the first sport to be given a Stonewall award so I can see this being taken very seriously.

Just speaking to a referee carries a significant penalty in itself. Our sport has prided itself in the respect the players show match officials and a light penalty would send a terrible message.

I know it's meaningless where certain teams are concerned but the RFL guidelines suggest that "Foul and abusive language towards a Match Official" is a category D offence (3-5 matches) and "Verbal abuse based on race, colour, religion, gender, sexual preference, national or ethnic origin" is category E-F (4-8+).

He should get a ban for swearing at the ref, nothing more imo, I don't thik this makes him homophobic, Ive been call much worst, but because im white and straight, it doesn't matter.