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THE RFL'S Match Review Panel have ruled upon several incidents from The Wire's defeat to Wigan Warriors on Friday.

Willie Isa will not face any further action for the tackle in the air on Jake Mamo that saw him sin-binned in the early stages of the match at Headingley.

The panel minutes reveal they believed referee Chris Kendall's on-field decision to show Isa a yellow card was sufficient punishment.

Interestingly, however, the minutes also suggest the Warriors' first try in their 18-14 victory should not have stood.


When reviewing a 25th-minute tackle on Blake Austin by Wigan's Oliver Partington, the panel believe the tackle should have resulted in a Warrington penalty.

The minutes read: "Player makes tackle on opponent with forearm to lower arm of opponent. Player makes secondary contact with shoulder to opponent’s head. Worthy of onfield penalty."

After the tackle, Partington picked up the ball and sprinted up to the Wire tryline and from the next play, Joe Greenwood crossed.

I thought the penalty try was crackers, so I call that 1-1. I always thought a penalty try had to be based on you having near certainty the attacker would’ve scored. The ball was bobbling all over the place and was short of the line when contact was made. It could’ve took a poor bounce and been dropped quite easily, he could’ve tried to kick it on and put too much power on it etc. The challenge was debatable as to how fair it was as well. In football terms ‘he got the ball’ but granted he got the man as well. That should’ve been a penalty and ten minutes in the bin for me at worst.

I understand the need to protect players and hits to the head etc, but when players are not fully vertical, ie they are on their way down, what is a player supposed to do? You've lined up the tackle to hit the chest and end up hitting the head. No malice in it, just something that happens in a sport played at speed.

Won't be long before we have the union rule of nothing above the chest "just in case"

One of those that goes with the refs call on field. I have no issue with that, but if you send something to the video you obbiously aren't sure/don't have a clue so the video ref should have a blank page to work with.

Fully agree on all points. He had to give it because that’s what the ref had given on the field but if you don’t send it up with a decision attached to it, the VR looks at it and surely must have doubts that he’s definitely scoring that try. I think he probably would’ve scored from that position but had Manfredi applied some legal pressure, you see plenty of those which don’t get finished.

Yet no mention of Austin attempting to unscrew Zak's head. Strange times we live in.

Terry O’Connor voice-

“He’s knocked on there, it’s a knock on, he’s knocked on, knock on, knock on, but but but knock on”

From the disciplinary review.

Case Number: ON/531/20
Name: Blake Austin

Player makes contact over the shoulder of opponent.
Footage does not demonstrate player having a grip on
opponent or making dangerous contact on opponent.

The disciplinary are just making it up as they go along, secondary contact ?

What about Hills blatant double movement. Surely we should be posthumously awarded a pen

Barrie Mac said it wasn't a double movement, he just moved the ball towards the line.

Near certainty is a bit far. The exact terms are 'if in the referees opinion a try would have been scored.' on that basis it is subjective, but not as high a requirement as yours. So yes in my opinion a try would have been scored, I agree with the call. Manfredi would have been binned if it was only deemed a penalty by the way so do factor that in.