www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/32 ... er-charged

www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/32 ... er-charged

The mentality of the rfl is beyond belief. It's no wonder some teams think they have a vendetta against them, are they really that rubbish at Running the game, surely nobody could make as many ridiculous decisions week in, week out by accident.

Fingers crossed he gets 2 games and can't play our semi

It was a shoulder charge and he made contact with the head, are you really trying to say it's a bad decision to charge him?

He'll submit his EGP, be banned for a game he'd probably have been rested for anyway and be free to play in the Semi. Why the outrage?

I'd have dropped him anyway. He was good in 2014, but has never risen much above distinctly average all season, and was tripe last weekend.

was a bad tackle mate,

Not seen it back but as Stan said he'll be no great loss. Been bang average most of the year.

If you do get the chance you can see in the tackles building up to it that he is pumped about something...

I must admit, I haven't seen the game back and didn't see the Larroyer incident at the time... What I did see however is watts take Kelly out arguably late but with a definite shoulder charge with not even a caution. That is the sort of thing that gets me frustrated. And it's not just when Rovers are involved, they are as a bunch bloody useless.

agree it was shoulder and was a penalty,but imo larroyer was worse, but you right the rfl needs looking at,

Someone said something nasty about his citroen 2cv

watts wasn't a shoulder charge, nor was it late or he'd have been dragged before the beak. We've had far worse out of the disciplinary panel than rovers have this season.

As for larroyer, he should have whatever ban he gets doubled for running away

Ever considered a career in comedy Rolfie? No, thought not.

=#FF0000Not a shoulder charge? Watts didn't even get penalised for it, and it lead to your 1st try.
=#FF0000And what are you talking about, "we've had far worse out of the disciplinary than Rovers"-
Maybe your players haven't been as disciplined as ours, would be the simple answer.
Although 1 of your players recently had a charge downgraded so don't think you can complain

I think you've just stooped to a new low of stupidity with that first bit about Watts!! What have you been taking to think that wasn't a shoulder charge? Are you actually Stevo?

As can be seen from the photo above it clearly isn't a shoulder charge. Good, legitimate hit

Should have been a penalty, shoulder charge, but not late as was committed as seen from the picture

Larroyer was much worst and deserves a ban, so the RFL got it correct.

Watts' wasn't a shoulder charge! There was no rotation of the hips and an attempt was there to raise the arm. It was a great shot, that's why there's no charge.

Ha ha ha, of course it is,

And you're clearly just as blinkered as Jake. It was a clear penalty with initial contact being with the shoulder, his left hip also clearly comes forward into the tackle. FWIW Larroyer deserves a ban for his, not saying he doesn't, but Watts' was also a shoulder charge that at the least deserved a penalty, but agree no ban required.

You do realise you're allowed to hit shoulder first, don't you?

Yes thanks, in the attempt of making a legitimate tackle, of which he had no intention, his arm doesn't move to attempt this. Goes to show how different interpretations can be made, but he knew exactly what he was doing in shoulder charging a player that was making a kick.

Hmmmm, no rotation of the hips and an attempt to raise the arm = no shoulder charge.

Not quite sure why it keeps getting mentioned. The tackle rightly wasn't penalised and there's rightly been nothing said since.

Time to move on.

Here is the match review panel's view of the Watts tackle www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/disciplinary/item?6709

Here is the match review panel's view of the Watts tackle www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/disciplinary/item?6709

I think the RFL are wrong, by their own definition it wasn't a shoulder charge. Not surprised though, typical RFL.