Fleets wrote:
All the people in that end of the ground saw it, the players saw it, only the ref and linesman didn't. Think of the Flower and Hohaia incident in the 2014 Grand Final and that got the one who threw the punch against the man on the ground a six month ban.
I thought Fleming should have been sin-binned for the challenge on Aston before. Very poor discipline by him to then go and do something like that the tackle after.
It was nothing like the Flower incident though, who punched an unconscious player on the ground. Aston lashed out at him and Fleming threw a punch. Should have been sent off and a 3 game ban would be fair.
The refs do seem to very erratic this year. Blowing up constantly or 6 again for nothing tackle infringements. Yet they seem to be less keen to be involved in more serious incidents like Flemings. I watched the first half of the Leeds/Hull game yestetday and the ref was pinging constantly for ruck infringements, yet when Gale took out a supporting player deliberately off the ball, the most certain sin-bin you've ever seen, he wanted to be less involved all of a sudden and decided it was just penalty sufficient.
As fans you normally know deep down when your sides in trouble discilpine wise but each tackle is becoming a mine field for penalties given for ruck infringements. Sin-bins are pretty straight forward for refs to get right but they dont seem to want to sin-bin for professional fouls anymore.
