Hull FC captain Gareth Ellis has been charged with the Grade C offence of making a dangerous shoulder charge on Kevin Brown of Widnes Vikings in the 18th minute of a match played on Sunday March 23.

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FFS.

it just gets better and better. grade c - 2+ matches isn't it?

but to be honest i'm fed up of the current shoulder charge rules - we are changing the game into touch rugby. i'm getting quite fed up with the current general state of the game

if its head contact then fair enough

Remember if its one of ours then its top tariff

Three widnes players only given a caution on tipping Rich Whiting RFL you are a joke!!

And yet the spear tackle on Whiting gets a caution. You simply couldn't make up this level of stupidity from the RFL.

Why dont they put some talc on & go in a bit dryer!

Kevin Brown not charged for punching Whiting off the ball either, n0b.

Never been so fed up with SL as I am now. Poor standard throughout the league and the RFL making the sport soft as sh I t. Literally can't do anything without worrying you'll get a ban.

The rfl are a joke, end of

should we really be shocked ? there is no wonder fans are walking away from the game we all love !!!!

who was the the other widnes player put on report ? ( not for the spear)

Could be my last season. Sick to the back teeth of them to be honest.

even though i wont actually go through with it i feel the same way as you , it saddens me tbh

Willie Isa? Charged with a Grade B Offence

We've got poore on a charge and tbh you know what you were going to get with that character ,but with Micky p and Ellis their not the kind of players that play that way but you know what's coming with the Hull clubs ,love the talc jibe , yours in part sympathy ,sort of ,love kitch

I too agree with you, what I love about the game the tackling, contact etc is being sanitised to the point of being no more than wemdyball.

Unless your L**ds or W**an of course.

The less said about no charges for that spear tackle the better.

i keep going back to this in my head but how the feck can the rfl hand out all the bans every week and not hand out any punishment out to Bowen for that head high assault ?

In the first televised match leeds v warry,maguire stood and threw half a dozen punches and nothing else said about it,says it all.

Never heard so many people yesterday say how fed up they are of Rugby league the way it is at the moment and I honestly feel the same. The game is one big joke.

i also think its driving standards down too, especially the intensity in the forward battles. superleague was much more intense six or seven years ago or more, especially in big games. without this the game just isn't the same

Nothing surprises me any more, sadly, when it comes to the RFL. The Hull clubs always get the rough end of it.
No wonder people are walking away from the game.
Regardless of how good\bad Hull are, I'm fast losing interest in Super League, to the extent of hardly even watching the games on Sky.

Was Ellis not told of the rule before hand?

The annoying part is that the game had a feel good factor after a successful World Cup.It seems to have evaporated thanks to the idiots running the game.

seriously thinking the same myself staffs.

3 cautioned for the same offence suggests it was a bad challenge

The EGP system seems to be bloody stupid too. Don't take it and challenge them and Ellis is looking at 3 games, instead of 2. Do we take the risk? Puts clubs in an invidious position