Re: SL RD 3 | St Helens (A) : Sun Feb 26, 2023 8:56 pm  

christopher wrote:

Im not bothered as long as its consistent, i think a yellow or red and no ban is the fairest way to go, why should we get the advantage that Cas should have had.

Was the Cas player badly injured? If not then penalty and get on with the game. We don’t want to go back to last season…..

Re: SL RD 3 | St Helens (A) : Sun Feb 26, 2023 9:02 pm  

Shabino wrote:

Was the Cas player badly injured? If not then penalty and get on with the game. We don’t want to go back to last season…..

If we’re serious about head injuries then direct contact to the head like that should be punished.

Re: SL RD 3 | St Helens (A) : Sun Feb 26, 2023 9:09 pm  

christopher wrote:

If we’re serious about head injuries then direct contact to the head like that should be punished.

It was. They got a penalty!

Re: SL RD 3 | St Helens (A) : Sun Feb 26, 2023 9:41 pm  

Someone will cop a yellow for an identical tackle in the coming weeks I'm sure. Then we can bring it up again.

Re: SL RD 3 | St Helens (A) : Mon Feb 27, 2023 2:44 pm  

christopher wrote:

He wasn’t falling and wellsby had both feet off the ground and hit him directly on the head.

I genuinely have no idea what incident you are watching.

As for clear red card, give over. We've all seen clear red card in our time and that was nowhere near.

Re: SL RD 3 | St Helens (A) : Mon Feb 27, 2023 3:03 pm  

Shabino wrote:

Was the Cas player badly injured? If not then penalty and get on with the game. We don’t want to go back to last season…..

We shouldn’t be penalising (or worse) based on the severity of injury, that way lies chaos my friend.

Re: SL RD 3 | St Helens (A) : Mon Feb 27, 2023 3:12 pm  

Free to play and quite right too.

Panel said he had no case to answer

Re: SL RD 3 | St Helens (A) : Mon Feb 27, 2023 3:44 pm  

christopher wrote:

He wasn’t falling and wellsby had both feet off the ground and hit him directly on the head.

Pity for you that there is video and photographic proof that first contact ( and that's what the mvp look at ) that both feet are on the floor and contact is shoulder and chest.

Re: SL RD 3 | St Helens (A) : Mon Feb 27, 2023 3:56 pm  

brook40 wrote:

Pity for you that there is video and photographic proof that first contact ( and that's what the mvp look at ) that both feet are on the floor and contact is shoulder and chest.

Pity for me? look it matters not a jot, Saints could play with 10 men on Friday and wed still get walloped.

I called it as I saw it and to me it looked a bad one, the MRP disagree and their opinion is what counts.

I hope there’s consistency going forward.

Re: SL RD 3 | St Helens (A) : Mon Feb 27, 2023 4:00 pm  

Watching it on tv it looked pretty bad.
Watching back on reply it looks like the first contact was chest and then head.
Don`t think it warranted a red card, yellow at the most.
The late hit/push in the back on Griffin from Lees looked worse to me.