Hall looked like he was really struggling when he scored a minute later

Flanagan is solid, competitive, hard working and not without skill and will be missed this weekend and for the rest of the year. Here's to a full recovery.....

As much as that?

Perhaps not seeing as he has just been fined for having a go about the ref in the Cats game; it effectively gags him from complaining more about the illegal tackles on Flanagan and Le Franc.

It hasn't stopped him making comment about it though (see Saints website).

I was stood in our East stand that game as always and as soon as the tackle was made I said to my mate "Mika will be in bother for that" I was really surprised there wasn't any further action considering Flanagan was down for some time and didn't return to the field

Same happened to Puletua against Salford which put him out for 3-4 games, its an absolute joke.

As it shouldn't - he should be shouting it as loud as possible in all the press avenues available as should the club administrators. We suffer for a couple of shoulder charges and a high tackle non of which has caused any of the players involved to even not be able to complete the game in progress yet we lose 2 key players .... typical RFL bullsh*t , more interested in implementing a stupid detrimental shoulder charge rule than protecting players

Meli was [uvery lucky [/uhe didn't injure Craig Hall more seriously.

Welham is out for 4 weeks thanks to Gardners shoulder charge.

As far as Con Mika's tackle which the Rfl looked at and responded as,





ON/211/13

Name Constantine Mika

Club Hull KR

Shirt Number 11

Match Hull KR v St Helens

Competition Super League

Date 07/04/13

Incident considered Dangerous Contact in 4th minute (Flanagan)

Decision No charge

Details of Charge / Reason for NF Player tackles legs of opponent held in the tackle however first contact is around thigh





Why didn't Brown compain at the time?

If first contact is the thigh, then how come he has done his ACL in? I thought that was around the knee joint?



Either way, how he has got away with ending someone's season is baffling to say the least.



And in terms of Meli, Chase got 3 games for shattering that poor bloke's jaw, yet Meli gets more for a clumsy tackle that was pretty bad? Seems fair.

For fans of a club, which counted Chris 'coathanger' Burton amongst its ranks, to lecture any one about high tackles is laughable at best!

Because it's the RFL - I'm sure they use some kind of random number generator to dish out bans.