Danny Maguire

[josie andrews]

McGuire’s suspension highlights system’s defects, says Hetherington

Yes, we know it highlights the disciplinary system's defects, he should have got more than a one match ban!!

Which just shows the Yorkshire bias

[BriH]

I think the whole disciplinary system should be thoroughly reviewed by an independent body so as to eliminate the anomalies that are at present causing so much controversy.
Some of the comments I have read from Brian Mc etc. are so absurd as to beggar belief.

[ancientnloyal]

So in context, McDonut is saying it would be ok to high tackle Rob Burrows because he is short?

[yokozuna]

When Sam was knocked out by Raynor, it was a poor attempt to dislodge the ball. But he got a deserved red card for his dangerous play. McGuire should have got a red and the subsequent ban should have also been commensurate with the nature of the foul.

Anyway, he misses the rest of the season, karma's a bugger.

[BriH]

Now Brian McD is accusing Shaun of "influencing" the discip panel!!
I hope the RFL gives Brian McD a right bollocking.
Talk about ratching up Friday's game

[josie andrews]

McDermott fuming with Wigan rival after McGuire ruled out of play-off semi-final


Leeds have accepted Danny McGuire's one-match ban but coach Brian McDermott has accused his Wigan counterpart Shaun Wane of influencing the disciplinary hearing.
McGuire will miss Friday's play-off semi-final against Wigan after being found guilty of a reckless high tackle during the defending champions' 27-20 win over Catalan Dragons in Perpignan last Friday.

McDermott, who claimed it was a careless challenge by his player, said the club had decided against lodging an appeal after receiving a fair hearing from the three-man committee chaired by high court judge Peter Charlesworth.

But he believes comments by Wane, in which he compared the incident to a tackle that earned Wigan hooker Michael McIlorum a three-match ban, were out of order.

'We considered an appeal,' he said. 'There was a bit of merit in doing that.
'But we thought they gave us a fair hearing. Sometimes you come out thinking you might as well have not turned up but, in fairness to the panel, they listened.

'I felt we put up a good case and I think it went as well as it could have done.
'If we did anything, we probably got it down from a two-game ban to one game.
'Unfortunately, with what's been said in the media building up to it, it would have been a tough call to not ban him.
'I'm just not sure that in any legal case you'd be allowed to say what you want in the media building up to it.
'When I talk about other clubs' players, I talk about how good they are and how they should be involved in Great Britain teams and things like that.'

McDermott also believes the verdict could have serious repercussions for the game, with players fearful of going wholeheartedly into tackles in case they result in a fine and a ban.

The former Bradford and Great Britain forward believes the verdicts are formed by the Rugby Football League's match-review panel which scrutinise incidents every Monday, with the disciplinary committee effectively acting as an appeals panel.

'I just think that, at the moment, once you enter that room, you are guilty,' he said.
'The review panel have been given a set of guidelines and I'd like to talk to the people who run the game. What do they want our game to look like?
'At the moment, players are concerned about going into collisions in case they get it slight wrong.
'That's scary for our game. The beauty of our game is that usually, if you run harder and tackle harder than the opposition, you win the game.
'Now, if you run hard and tackle, you worry about getting a ban.

'Maggsy gets run at every single week by teams that try to exhaust the leading tryscorer in Super League.
'Because of that, Maggsy has to be aggressive and sometimes he gets it wrong. He hasn't the best tackle technique in the world and never has had but he is tenacious and competitive and sometimes that goes wrong.

'To judge him on one error, saying you got that wrong and it's a one-game ban, is very harsh.
'It's too clinical and I think if we carry on with this philosophy, players are going to start coming to coaches and say I can't afford to tackle hard.'

McDermott admitted that the club were deterred from making an appeal in case a different panel opted to impose a two-match ban, the maximum allowed for a grade B offence.
'Should we be good enough to beat Wigan and get through to the Grand Final, we obviously get Maggsy back,' he said.

However, Leeds have lost eight of the 10 matches McGuire has missed this year through injury and suspension and McDermott admits the absence of Super League's all-time leading tryscorer is a major blow.

'It is difficult to win without him,' he said. 'He's been in sensational form this year.
'We'll miss him because he makes other people play well but we have to find it from somewhere else and we're determined to do that.

'After the hearing, we pretty much started planning without him. All the players knew straight away, their minds were turning to 'let's crack on without him and make it a team effort'.'

McDermott has the option of switching Rob Burrow to his old scrum-half role and starting with Shaun Lunt at hooker or reverting to his Challenge Cup final line-up, with 18-year-old Stevie Ward partnering Kevin Sinfield at half-back.
'We've got a couple of options and we've practised with both,' McDermott said. 'We'll analyse that tomorrow.'



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[josie andrews]

Brian McDermott video

http://www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... ott-video?

[Shaun1967]

After the club call on Sunday, McDermott claimed Maguire caught Anderson high because "he wasn't as tall as he thought he was going to be". I think this was probably the point when Maguire realised a ban was inevitable.
If that's the best defence your coach can make in public, then it's a bit rich saying Wane influenced the panel, McDermott probably influenced them more than Wane.

It also doesn't make a lot of sense to criticise Wane for speaking out in public before the hearing when he did it himself on Sky TV.
I don't like Wane commenting in public like this, however McDermott has gone down a lot in my estimation after the last few days.

[Wigan_forever1985]

This is exactly why I said wane shouldn't get involved in things like this

[platt-warrior]

SW is perfectly entitled to express his opinion whether it be in public or tv or in print come to that.