Fat Boy Cunningham cleared

[highland convert]

Rob. In a previous thread you claimed that ten minutes or red card was "sending off sufficient" because they were denied the use of the player. Here we were denied the use of our full back because of a blaitent foul/ Guilty/ Yet both Stains and Cunningham get away with it. Only one punished has been Wigan. HKR lose two players for what has been outlined as the religation final. Wher is fair. RL has left two players in position at the top for a cup match. and taken out two in amore important game at the bottom. Tell HKR the playing field is level. HC

[robjoenz]

highland convert posted:
Rob. In a previous thread you claimed that ten minutes or red card was "sending off sufficient" because they were denied the use of the player. Here we were denied the use of our full back because of a blaitent foul/ Guilty/ Yet both Stains and Cunningham get away with it. Only one punished has been Wigan. HKR lose two players for what has been outlined as the religation final. Wher is fair. RL has left two players in position at the top for a cup match. and taken out two in amore important game at the bottom. Tell HKR the playing field is level. HC

You've taken me out of context. When I was talking about red card sufficient I was talking about a totally different incident.

I was talking about the Wilkin incident the week before. Different incidents are worth different punishments (or none at all).

Re: the challenge on Richards, I don't see how you can prove there was intent to harm as Richards fell into it. I know your opinion is that he meant to do it but you can't prove that with the video footage due to Richards falling.

Hull KR have lost two players for a game each, their challenges were obviously deemed worse than Cunningham's.

[robjoenz]

cpwigan posted:
Rob, the RFL are hopeless full stop as far as dealing with foul play. The let players, match officials and spectators down. As far as bias goes, a common complaint is that non SL players get treated more harshly than SL players. Whether that is true or not, I will leave for an anorak to discover. I do know if you are representing GB and/or due to appear in a final has traditionally had a bearing on suspensions.

Have you not noticed a difference in discipline between Super League and the National Leagues?

I'd like to see the RFL dish out big bans (e.g. 12 matches) to players when there is sufficient proof that a challenge deserves it. I don't believe the Cunningham challenge deserved it though. The officials missed the incident because it looked like an innocuous challenge and the disciplinary didn't deem it worthy of a ban.