It really isn't.

It's a sad state of affairs when an innocuous tackle is picked over in fine detail in a desperate search for reasons to penalise a player; equally sad when the opposition coach appoints himself judge, jury and executioner and pronounces his verdict in the media before the panel has even had a look - bit of desperation in all that hysterical nonsense about 'disgusting' and 'spinal units.'



In the end, the tackle looked a bit ugly, but the player was placed on his back and there was no harm done - a bit messy, warned about technique, job done.

not to turn this into a cas v wakey argument but Justin carney got banned for 3 matches(yes his record this season didn't help) for arguably a softer challenge in the London match,poores challenge much worse and he kops a caution(as he been summed before the panel regarding tackles this season????) if not then even if it his first offence then he should still of been handed atleast a 1 match ban

As if by magic, an example appears!



FYI - the two challenges were worlds apart; the Poore/Aiton tackle started off messy but fortunately for everyone involved Aiton tidied it up, leaving the Hull player on his back and no worse for wear.

Whether a challenge is hard or soft is not the basis for whether it is legal or illegal. You and the Sky commentators should bear that in mind.



For example Stevo in commentary seemed to react to another challenge by Poore on Ellis where it was a good hard shot but perfectly legal imo, but of course Stevo was shouting for a penalty and bleating how the referee missed it.



There are too many soft penalties given in UK games as it is at the moment but there seems to be more and more dissection of petty incidents looking for reasons to penalise folk, especially on this forum.

so when aiton isn't their next time and he breaks a players neck what will be the excuse to justify it????

give over sill person - RFL no charge

Unless you've perfected that flux capacitor and fitted it to a DeLorean, I fail to see how the disciplinary panel can penalise for offences that haven't yet happened; he was warned to his future conduct - with the current technology available to us, I'm reasonably sure that's as far as they can go.

The point is to make a correct decision with the benefit of hindsight. Job done, anyone who understands the game will tell you it was nothing more than a messy slam tackle - common sense prevails.



You mate want it all ways.

Shocking tackle, lifted players legs over the horizontal, only his team mate prevented serious injury. Shocking decision by the disciplinary panel.

I bet the wakey fans wouldn't be so defensive if it was a hull player doing the same to one of their players!



it was a dangerous tackle, should've carried atleast a 1 game ban!

To be honest I’d expected a match, maybe a couple due to previous indiscretions, clumsy yes, malicious no. Lauitiiti copped a worse one last week but I didn’t see Agar bleating to the press about it & there wasn’t a six page thread about it on the V.T.