Poor call from Thaler , it's never a Red Card . Nothing would have happened if the Sheffield N0. 25 hadn't run over to cause a bit of an argument.
The Vicar
Hopefully the red card will help us and they deem it sending it off sufficient.
Sending off sufficient implies guilt. We should be aiming for not guilty
Let us see! Does anybody remember Andy CURRIER getting two matches for a shoulder charge in a cup game against BATLEY at Naughton Park in the 1980's? He got 2 games, appealed it and then got 8!!!!! I refer to my previous comments re the RFL and THALER!
Let us see! Does anybody remember Andy CURRIER getting two matches for a shoulder charge in a cup game against BATLEY at Naughton Park in the 1980’s? He got 2 games, appealed it and then got 8!!!!! I refer to my previous comments re the RFL and THALER!
I remember.
It was the 1st Round of the 1990 Challenge Cup.
If I remember rightly, he hurt the Batley lad quite badly (Broken Collar bone, seems to ring a bell...)
I know shoulder charges were legal back then, but it was always a poor way of grounding an opponent (some would even say... Lazy), and Currier had quite a bit of form for using that technique.
That was also around the time Currier started getting booed from a section of our own fans - still to this day don't know what caused it.
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Let us see! Does anybody remember Andy CURRIER getting two matches for a shoulder charge in a cup game against BATLEY at Naughton Park in the 1980’s? He got 2 games, appealed it and then got 8!!!!! I refer to my previous comments re the RFL and THALER!
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That’s hardly relevant for today’s disciplinary processes
Don't forget that Thaler was on a charge of driving without insurance on Monday!
He had to kick somebody's cat just to vent his spleen!!!
That was also around the time Currier started getting booed from a section of our own fans – still to this day don’t know what caused it.
It was one game and the reason was that news of his transfer request was in that morning’s papers, the same day as the game.Not condoning it but that was the background.
Hopefully the red card will help us and they deem it sending it off sufficient.
There may yet be hope...
James Greenwood, Salford no. 21, was sent off for a high tackle against Huddersfield on the 18th. The disciplinary panel rescinded the red card, no action taken.
Also, on the 6th, Blake Broadbent, the Sheffield no.19, was charged for a late tackle in the game against 'Fax, the panel just gave him a 0 match penalty notice.
I am tempted to wonder if the Sheffield players set the incident up. It was at worst a gentle bump between the two players yet the Sheffield player fell to the ground as if he had been pole-axed and others immediately started the fracas. Lawton had been a thorn in their side all game, could it have been a deliberate "getting their own back"?
I think the reff sent off the wrong Salford player so that's why that red card was rescinded.
Sounds melodramatic, but not impossible if players can collapse to stop the game these days (Woolf's accusation).
Looks like Matt Cook will be getting something too.
I think the reff sent off the wrong Salford player so that’s why that red card was rescinded.
As indeed did Bent Haler - he should have sent the Sheffield player off for such histrionically bad acting when he threw himself on the ground and played dead....
Won’t the Salford player who should have got sent off, have to appear in front of the disciplinary comitee now?
Won’t the Salford player who should have got sent off, have to appear in front of the disciplinary comitee now?
It was Dan Sarginson and he’s been given three games
Can’t see Lawton picking up a ban for this think the officials got this completely wrong having said that who knows when it comes to rugby league!
Hopefully the red card will help us and they deem it sending it off sufficient.
There may yet be hope… James Greenwood, Salford no. 21, was sent off for a high tackle against Huddersfield on the 18th. The disciplinary panel rescinded the red card, no action taken. Also, on the 6th, Blake Broadbent, the Sheffield no.19, was charged for a late tackle in the game against ‘Fax, the panel just gave him a 0 match penalty notice. I am tempted to wonder if the Sheffield players set the incident up. It was at worst a gentle bump between the two players yet the Sheffield player fell to the ground as if he had been pole-axed and others immediately started the fracas. Lawton had been a thorn in their side all game, could it have been a deliberate “getting their own back”?
Yes, I recall Alex Murphy once described that type of play acting by a player in commentary as "looking as if he had been shot with an elephant gun" rather than falling down on a rugby pitch!