It's only one of many highly questionable red cards this season. That's the bigger picture I'm talking about. It's literally destroying the game.

There has indeed been many questionable red cards this season. This, however, was not one of them.

If your arguing against the current rules, that's a whole other debate but to say this was never a red card is plain daft. He had both feet off the ground, was bolt upright and made direct contact with the head. End of discussion really.

That was absolutely shambolic from Saints, I honestly cannot remember a worse performance from them. Irrespective of how well or not they are coached the players should hold their heads in shame as their effort was totally unacceptable.

It was fun to watch though

It was wasn't it,after the years of 3peat/4peat etc etc,after the ridiculous notion that they can dominate for 10yrs,after the great comments that not one or maybe just Faz would get into their team (faz as a sub),after the envyo'meter that some numpty put up,so all we get now is injuries,injuries,injuries ALL teams get injuries it is upto the management to control this.

We know they will turn it around sooner or later as they are a great team/club but we didnt get any sympathy when we have struggled in the past so tough sh*t and just get on with it.

No way was that a deliberate head shot. He wrapped his arms round the guy's body. The fact his feet left the ground is laughably irrelevant. How many tacklers leave the ground when they're trying to bring down an opponent? Probably fifty per cent of them. It signifies nothing other than determined effort.

We have to ask ourselves where all this is going to end. They've pulled back on next year's extra level of 'player protection' because they've realised it would make the game unplayable. But for how long?

Many, many years ago, before all this was a conversation piece, I took my son to hospital after a Saturday afternoon match, because he'd sustained a nasty ankle injury. The Casualty doctor was quite sniffy with us, as if we'd got what we deserved, and in the end, couldn't resist saying: 'If I had my way, rugby would be abolished tomorrow.'

That's the mentality behind all this. We shouldn't just be okay with it.

Some of Saints senior players need to have a look in the mirror, those young lads were hung out to dry yesterday.

Hull KR were outstanding, their biggest issue is that GF isn’t next week, as I don’t think anyone is beating them currently on this form. 7 weeks is a long time in sport, for everyone (including Saints!) to build for Old Trafford.

Just to add to this,my daughter dislocated her elbow and had to go to hospital to have it put back,this happened when she was training on the trampoline,the surgeon said that trampolining cause more injuries to kids than any most other sports and he would ban that.The point is that doctors/surgeons etc would ban any sport they deem unsafe.There is only so far you can make a sport safer after that th sport becomes unrecognisable to what it started out as.

Mate, with all due respect, that's utter nonsense. 50% of tacklers do not leave the ground with both feet! You're just making things up. Of the small minority of tackles where the player's feet do leave the ground, only the ones that make direct contact with the head are punished. If Makinson hadn't made contact with the head, he wouldn't have been punished either. Unfortunately for him, he quite clearly did. You say he tried to wrap his arms. You mean like Byrne on Good Friday? Remind me what happened there?

It was a straight red. Absolutely no doubt whatsoever about it.

The rest of your post is an entirely different discussion.

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