Marmalised lol haven't heard that word used for ages. Bravo

Still absolutely raging as a RL fan about the Nu Brown send off, but it's also disgusting how much sympathy I had for Hull FC last night!! Which shows the level of obscenity these "rules" have created.


We're all gonna be affected by this, infact in an odd way its extraordinary how the game off the pitch finds these ways to shoot itself in its foot. It's an incredible achievement in a roundabout way

I think that’s the point most players, pundits, fans and sponsors alike are unified on over the Nu Brown card in that it seriously impacts the game and sport we all love massively and in the wrong way.

If this continues how much longer are the stakeholders of the game going to stick around before they also say enough is enough?

We all agree that players need protecting but a combination of the RFL not consulting the players on changes and implenting rule changes, the officials and their inability to be consistent in applying the rules and common sense topped off with the MRP run by Cullen with ridiculous bans shows total and utter incompetence and they should be and need to be held accountable for the mess they’ve created.

In over 40yrs of both playing and watching this sport I don’t think I’ve ever know a time when a decision made in the field by an official has unified so many people across all sectors of the game , the fact it has shows that the game is royally b0ll0xed if the RFL do not address this here and now.

State firstly I am a Warrington fan….
You guys were MASSIVELY done last night by probably the WORST officiating I have ever seen.
Red Card !!! FFS no way, I wouldn’t even have said that warranted a yellow, it was accidental….blimey even the South Stand was booing the decision..
Thewlis tackle over the line…..how on earth was that not both a Penalty Try & a Yellow ?
Our Penalty Try ???? I really couldn’t justify that in any way shape or form.
I turned off after that as the telly would have been put in.
Wilkin is right…RFL are KILLING this game with death by a 1000 cuts.
Just watch how attendances fall over the Season.
Been saying for last 3 Seasons, officiating is poor, amateur and killing the game. RFL, simply not fit for purpose.

Feel sorry for those that travelled as till the Red, you guys were playing some good rugby, in shocking conditions.
Hollow victory….

Just seem a video on Twitter of Sutcliffe running into the ref and knocking him over when tracking back for a Warrington try. It's an absolute load of nothing but still wouldn't surprise me at all if he ends up with a ban for it.

We've certainly seen bans for that before.

dont think so the RFL darnt do anything other than ensure sending off sufficient

I’d agree as the fall out from Browns Red is already bad enough and more than most of us have ever seen in the game, if the RFL misread the room on this and double down it will create an almost atomic meltdown across the game as whole.

Though the worrying thing is we all know just how out of touch with reality the RFL and the MRP are with the game they are supposed to up hold and govern so anything is possible as the saying goes “the lunatics have taken over the asylum’

By the letter of the laws it was a red card. Not debatable. However the law is clearly wrong, accidents happen and if Brown had the cut would Currie be sent off? Crazy night. I don’t thing Hull would have won so the result outcome is the same. Warrington are a poor side, unfit. And clueless. Hull need some luck but the first two games shows little prospect of anything other than bottom 4.

If players from the same team accidentally clash heads will one of them be sent off?

I saw a video where Ashworth also had a clash of heads with a wire player, could do without him getting a ban!

Have you tried Alan Watts?

Curly Watts more his level, Mrs B.

is Griffiths saying Brown head butted Currie? if its not accidental like we all know, then he is virtually saying Brown nutted Currie!

I’d be amazed if any player gets punished this week.

The RFL know they messed up with Harry Brown last week and will know the sending off of Nu Brown was wrong too. It ruined last nights match and the all the media and fans are now talking about cards and bans, instead of the matches.

Regarding Lane.
His stats were 53 tackles..
We’ve lost our 2 best defensive players n Houghton and cator.
He’s no liam Farrell or Liam Martin.
Its like I’ve said previously on here
He’s playing in a beaten pack.

But Liam Moore said,”direct and forceful contact to the head with no mitigation “ The RFL have set the standards and they’re just bloody minded enough carry it through. Think he’ll get a few games ban personally. The match revue commission will be pouring over the footage from this week’s games and dredging all sorts up.

Hoy, Brown and Sutcliffe under threat this week.

Realistically none should get a ban, but you never know.

The tackler on Sutcliffe should get a match, as no in game punishment.

The RFL Disciplinary have now backed themselves into a corner. In one hand they have to uphold their player safety stance, however there’s poor and inconsistent decisions that clubs can use in mitigation.

For instance, based upon the Ese Ese 2 match ban, Donaldson must get a two match ban. On the other hand, clubs will use the Harry Smith decision as a benchmark if there is the slightest case of a defender contributing to the incident.

I still think they’ll find Nu Brown SOS. I also think they’ll not ban Thewell and Hoy, as the VR failed to sin bin either, so quite a step up to ban them.

They might give their token weekly FC ban to our player (forgot who?) who made late contact on their player from behind after he’d passed the ball.

The RFL, MRP and Officials have backed themselves into a corner and only have 3 options

1. Circle their wagons and double down and just add further insult to the sport & its stakeholders
2. Front up apologise for the mess and be honest admit they’ve dropped an almighty clanger and put things right.
3. Just bury their head in the sand, ignore the issue, quietly give no further bans, sweeping it under the carpet in the hope it’ll go away.

Chances are we’ll either see option 1 or 3 either way the action taken will be to cover their own backs rather than what’s best for the sport.

Sutcliffe will 100% get a ban for his contact on the ref

I’d go for Option 3.

They take a tough stance at the start of each season, but dilute it down within weeks. If something’s wrong is Week 1 it should be wrong in Week 21. However, the RFL never operates like that.

I think so. It didn't look good, I reckon grade C and a 1-2 match ban.

Gardiner could be in trouble also for that late shot he did after the ball had gone.

Do think gardners was poor, no doubt born out of frustration though.