How outraged were you over the last few years when weller Harauki was going around hitting half backs on your teams behalf? take for example he smacked ratchford in the face in the play offs last year, deliberately after a break and he was already tackled?

Westwood www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/disciplinary/item?6738 CHARGED: One or two matches Strikes with shoulder/arm - reckless Grade – B

Westwood www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/disciplinary/item?6738 CHARGED: One or two matches Strikes with shoulder/arm - reckless Grade – B

Though he was stupid and said as such. Penalty machine and banned too often, I wasn't bothered when he left.

I by no means think our players are angels (remember we have had the likes of Sampson and Hepi in the past too) and they would fully deserve banning if they put the safety of other players at unnecessary risk through foul play.

Player safety has to come above support for any club and I don't think the game is harsh enough on foul play. You only need to look at the paralysis of the player in the NRL to see the consequences of foul play, we need to deter players as much as we can to protect the game.

It was posted in the heat of the moment, and you have my apologies.

In the end , Westwood will be punished and has put himself out of a challenge cup semi-final , possibly first match of super 8s , not done himself or the club any favours

I still find the system very frustrating, and not just this particular incident (I have said it previously lots of time if you had the time to look through my posts)



If Westwood (or any player) is banned for an on-field incident this indicates he should have been sent off at the time. It's almost the RFL's way of saying the referee got it wrong! With the amount of suspensions each year, that's an awful lot of foul play the referees are not acting strongly enough against.



Banning any player for the following game(s) is usually no consolation to the team who were actually damaged by his foul play through the loss of a player (in this case for 74 minutes!).



I would propose that one game of any suspension is served the next time the offender plays the team he committed the offence against. So, if Westwood gets a one match ban, it should be served next time the club he is playing for plays against Castleford. If he gets two matches, he should be banned for the following game (regardless of opposition) and then the next time he is due to play the team he committed the offence against.



At least this way the affected team have some kind of justice served for having the offence committed against them.

Depending on his ban and the Super 8's fixture scheduling you may get your wish.

Possibly, but my argument is more with the general system that this specific incident. I've said it lots of times - Rangi Chase on Brett Ferres and James Green on Travis Burns spring to mind.



I just think that the team offended against very rarely gain the compensation of the suspension. Indeed, sometimes the advantage is indirectly given to the rivals of the team offended against (for example if you have Huddersfield first up, they will gain the advantage of a player suspended for an offence committed against their closest rivals!).

But on the other side, how many times have you played a team missing a player(s) suspended because of offences committed against other teams. Cliche I know (and one I don't particularly like) but over time it does even itself up.



I think the onus should be on the match day officials (there would be at least 6 of them there yesterday) to be good enough to get things right as often as humanly possible, and then have the nuts to make decisions at the time rather than handing them on to someone else.

Told you there was nothing wrong with him.

The thing is, no system is perfect. A player gets banned in his club's last game of the season, then moves to another club. Use the system you've suggested and you finish up penalising his new team. Leave it as it is.

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