www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... Leeds.html Won't bet on him NOT playing at the w/e

www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... Leeds.html Won't bet on him NOT playing at the w/e

It's more likely he will play, be MOTM, score a hattrick and be superb in defence than the likelihood of his ban being upheld.

If he gets to play on sunday then it's ridiculous.



What is the point in giving him a ban if he's just going to get it wiped off.





Plus, if we are working on a game plan against a Rhinos side without Webb, wouldn't it be a bit unfair on us to have him included in the Rhinos squad now?

Unfair doesn't matter when it comes to Leeds and the RFL.



Logically, if he is going to appeal, and the offence carries a 1-2 game ban, it should be only moved to one game, and the very best.



But realistically, he'll be playing.

Unfortunately, because the RFL have no balls.

Or he could have the ban increased.



If you read the discplinary report they are pretty clear he was in the wrong and that any contact with the head is an automatic ban. They also mention they are taking his previous appearances before board and cautions for the same offence into consideration. RFL are going to look really silly if they backtrack and totally clear him after issueing should unambigous discplinary report. Best I think webb can hope for, and I suspect likely result, is the ban being reduced to 1 match clearing him to play in the cup game v wigan. Would also fit with RFL's history of not banning players from big teams for cup/playoff games.

Pathetic.

I don't normally buy into these RFL conspiracy stuff, but I would be interested to see just how many times players have been up against a disciplinary board before their club's big derby match and not got a ban. I've certainly noticed quite a few times for the Bradford/Leeds and Wigan/Saints derbies and always thought "well, they don't want them missing for the big games eh?".



Never thought it was a Leeds bias or anything like that, but I've always thought the RFL don't like to ban players for big matches (such as derbies, playoffs, cup semis/finals). They only tend to do it if it's something particularly bad that they really can't get away with letting someone off.



Obviously that isn't a 100% thing, but it seems to be generally accurate.

I don't think they will increase the ban. It will either be reduced to one game - or kept at 2 games with an increased fine for wasting the panels time.

To be fair to Webb, he tackles like that all the time and generally gets away with it!



Joke - before the Webb defence brigade go into overdrive!

I didn't think it was a joke, seemed like facts to me! You can add McGuire into that too....

The reasons a Club appeals a ban is usually a) Its an unjust punishment b) they are short of senior players due to injury .

Bradford have done that on numerous occasions usually for a) and had some success.

In this case I think b) is the underlying reason and will probably fail.