You can even see Field's head rock back on contact! Can you imagine had that been Byrne (or Knowles or Lees for that matter) carrying out that assault?

But let's play devil's advocate for a minute and enter the panel's fantasy world where no contact took place. It's still clear as day what his intention was. This was not an accident that occured whilst making a tackle. He drops on an already prone player with the sole intention to cause pain or injury! How does sanctioning that type of behavior reconcile with the much quoted duty of care?

The panel is a joke and simply not fit for purpose and needs replacing with competent people who actually know what they are doing.

If someone throws a punch and makes poor contact, do they escape punishment? Of course not.

However, we're discussing this with someone who is using the disciplinary panel as some arbiter of what actually happened

The MRP aren't fit for purpose and never have been. I'm sure you'd be saying the same if that assault had been on one of your players.

Now go away and stop making a fool of yourself. If you can't see contact in the clip I've posted I doubt even Specsavers can help you.

Put it to bed now. We’ll start turning into the Kr fan b*tching about the ref

Annoying for Walters. Was thinking about a Farrell rest this week to get a full 80 out of Walters.

Hill and Coops to get a game though.

I take heart from nonsensical decisions like these.

It means they're cakking themselves again.