It may be a coincidence but all of the games were televised over Easter and looking back at sky sports news article 10 players picked up a ban over that weekend. It could be that it was rivals round so some players were a bit more fired up.
Yet last weekend only 2 games on TV and only 2 players picked up a ban.
The weekend at the end of March only 1 player I think (willie isa) picked up a ban and again from the televised Leigh v Wigan game.
It would be interesting to see the proportion of match penalty notices from TV games versus non TV games.

I think this is a very good point. Very interesting to see the stats. More scrutiny & might even be clearer pictures

Anyone know if it is being appealed, not seen anything to suggest they are.

Wouldn't bother. Book Vaughan and his family 10 nights in Tenerife (he's earned it), take the gallant loss on Thursday night and come back in May with a refreshed pack.

Apparently the Ban was because Vaughan had committed the same offence in the NRL.

In the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter losing to Saints because all our props are out. We have points in the bag and the important games are in the play offs, not mid season.

Luke Thomas isn't injured, he played in the Reserves at the weekend.

Who knew that was even a thing?? Are the MRP that anal that they go through every single offence the player has ever committed? They'll be banning players coz their dad once swore at a ref in an under 9's game next!

It's getting beyond ridiculous.......BUT..... as long as they are consistent

What seems ridiculous with the MRP is that every player cited on the MRP call sheet could/should have been put on report/sent to the bin for 10 mins or sent off.

There were 43 incidents looked at in the last MRP, and 19 players determined to have done something wrong (whether fined, cautioned, banned or no further action).

So that feels either that the officials aren't doing their onfield job correctly, or worse being told to overlook 50/50 calls as the MRP will pick it up - but worse by not taking actions it's affecting the game result or subsequent results due to players staying on pitch on when they shouldn't, banning people retrospectively, or trying to do the right thing (in terms of player welfare) but not addressing the situation in a timely manner.

It's like MRP is being used to stop the game running into a potential situation where its 12 vs 10, (if players were dismissed/sin binned at the time) but it's all okay as they might miss a future game instead.

I'm a Saints fan and just watched the footage of the tackle Vaughan has got banned for, if that's a ban then we may as well stop playing tackle rugby. The whole disciplinary and mrp are not fit for purpose and just seem to be making it up as they go along.