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Joel Tomkins (Hull KR) – Grade B Dangerous Contact – 1 Match Penalty Notice

James Roby (St Helens) – Grade A Dangerous Contact – 0 Match Penalty Notice

Tomkins sure bit Roby's crusher was alot more dangerous

Name: James Roby
Club and shirt
number:
St Helens; 9
Match: St Helens v Castleford
Competition and Date: Super League; 26th May 2019
Report received from: Referee; Temporary Dismissal
Details of allegation: Dangerous Contact in the 29th minute (Trueman)
Decision: Issue charge
Details of Charge /
Reason for NFA:
Rule – 15.1(i)
Detail – Defending player, in or after effecting a tackle, uses
any part of his body forcefully to bend or apply unnecessary
pressure to the head and/or neck and/or spinal column of the
tackled player so as to keep the tackled player at a
disadvantage in or after the tackle.
Grade – A
Penalty Notice: 0 Match Penalty Notice

BEN Currie has not been charged for his alleged crusher tackle on Wigan's Taulima Tautai in Saturday's Magic Weekend victory.

The RFL's Match Review Panel saw it fit to clear the Wire second rower of a dangerous contact charge despite Wigan coach Adrian Lam calling the second-half incident "the definition of a crusher tackle."

No Wire players have been charged by the panel, but Friday's Challenge Cup opponents Hull KR will be without captain Joel Tomkins for the quarter-final clash.


Tomkins has been hit with a Grade B dangerous contact charge from their Magic Weekend win over

https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... ves-clash/

RFL defends judicial system after Hull KR owner Neil Hudgell's criticism

The Rugby Football League has defended its judicial system following stinging criticism from Hull KR owner Neil Hudgell.

Hudgell described Rovers' failure to overturn a one-match ban imposed on captain Joel Tomkins for an alleged crusher tackle on Krisnan Inu in Sunday's Magic Weekend victory over Salford as "selective justice".

Tomkins, who was joined at a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday by Hudgell and head coach Tim Sheens, will miss his club's Challenge Cup quarter-final against Warrington Wolves on Friday.

Hudgell, who was on a working panel appointed to review the disciplinary system ahead of the 2018 season, says he was left baffled by the explanation for the charge, and accused the disciplinary panel of making it up "on the hoof".

He also singled out for criticism match review panel member Paul Cullen, a former Warrington player and coach.


"I'm very concerned when we leave Paul Cullen and his department to deliver this selective justice," Hudgell said in a statement. "There's nothing wrong with the system, just some of the people in it."

The comments prompted a response from the governing body.

An RFL statement said: "Clubs will never agree with every decision of the panel, but we always hope that club officials will respect the disciplinary process and the integrity of individual panel members.

Officials and supporters are reminded that the match review panel and the disciplinary tribunal are independent, the findings of this two-stage process are transparent and published on the RFL website, and processes are under constant peer-review.

"The panel and its processes were reviewed during 2017 by a working group which included senior representatives from both Super League and Championship clubs who commended the quality of the work.

"The individuals involved on the match review panel and the disciplinary tribunal all bring considerable expertise, including experience of playing or officiating at the highest level.

https://www.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... -criticism

I find the whole system a mess,no real continuity over certain misdemeanours,I’m not sure what’s to be done but at present it’s a lottery and that’s not a good thing to have in any sport.

One of the dirtiest players of his generation in charge of the disciplinary panel explains alot,I wonder if he still runs wires lottery aswell.