Quote goobervision="goobervision"The RFL are not helping themselves:
=#FF0000Mellars & Bridge - players run into melee, nothing happens but they get sin binned. Up at the disciplinary.
Bailey & Morley - head butt. "Player held in tackle, attempting to release grip of opponent, no intentional contact with head". How does a player release another's grip with the head?
Dorn - tackle that ends up around the head, decision... Unknown?'"
Just shows the patheticness that is the rugby league disciplinary panel! The sooner our game is run by a proper administrative panel the better - is it any wonder that the game lacks national credibility despite being the greatest game in the world when it has been perenially run by muppets!!
As for Mellars and Bridge, they should get bans if there is any consistancy, even if they have not thrown punches, as running in was all sam did, to try and pull players off his brother, yet he still got a ban and hung by the Rugby League Kangaroo court and Richard Agar's lies about throwing punches, despite video evidence to the contrary.
IMO running in shouldnt carry a ban, it should be what the player does when he runs in that determines the issue. A player running in to protect his own players and to try and pull players away should be applauded, yet they are treated in the same way as a player running in all fists flying!!
Watch the Wigan V Dull 2011 again on that video sharing site as stated by one of the last posters - what radford was doing was far worse than sam, who only came in to stop radford reigning blows on joel while he was held and hit by other hull players - yet 1 match ban for sam, radford gets off for good behaviour
EDIT: Watch Bailey and Morley get off in typical RFL fashion.
