Here's two incidents to compare from the past week or so.

Incident 1
Bees ask the ISL to look at an incident in the game against Belfast in which Sorochan tried to decapitate Hurley. The ISL issue a 2 game ban, but then also ban Hurley because the spot that in the fight that followed, he accidentally caught Cloutman in the visor. Belfast had asked for no supplementary discipline for this and they say that Cloutman, having accepted Hurleys apology, did not report the incident.

Incident 2
Panthers playing one of their friendly encounters with Steelers. Having been thrown out for fighting, both Timo Willman and Dion Darling are alleged to have made obscene gestures to the crowd. According to the Nottingham Evening Post, "League disciplinary chief Frank Dempster admitted receiving complaints from Supporters about Willman and Darling gesturing to the crowd, but says he didn't even look at the incident on video tape as he hadn't had official notification from the match officials or from Panthers."

Basically, the upshot is that in neither case was a complaint made by the opponents, nor were the incidents reported by the referee, but only in Sheffield case did that mean that the committee could not look at the incident and take action. This meant that going into last nights crunch game, Bees were missing a player and Steelers had two players playing, who could have been missing if treated the same.
Does that p!$$ me of??? Too damn right it does!

If I were Martin Weddell, I'd be calling Dempster to ask for an explanation. I'd also want Hurleys suspension lifted and last nights game replayed.



Buzz Bee
Sting

..they always have..cos they have NEVER made a contentious decision AGAISNT the Steelers have they Buzz?

Stop whinging mate..its the same old record..we allus say: the ISL LOVE the Panthers..no proof just summat to say innit..

dont suppose you'd be even mentioning this if we hadnt all of a sudden reversed our postions in the play off table eh?

To be honest, the fact that we had a player banned for last nights game and you had to playing who should of at least been investigated is a little unfortunate. However, the result last night, however much it might have been affected by these decisions, does mean that the better of the two teams is likely to be at Sheffield, so I've no gripe with that.

However, for two decisions to happen just days apart - One where the committee are asked to look at a cross check and they then spotted something in a fight afterwards that they deemed worth a suspension, and another where they receive complaints about an incident, but don't look because the complaints hadn't come from the club or ref (As in the first case) is a little too much.

Consistency is always a problem and we can always point to instances of inconsistencies, but not in the same week and presumably, now that there is a three man committee for these things, arising from the same meeting.

That is OTT!

As for the result - However much it might have been affected by the disciplinary committee, the fact still remains that Steelers are a far better side than the Bees. Although I would love to see the Bees in Nottingham (Although I doubt if I will be in a fit state to see any team in Nottingham) the fact remains that Steelers are more deserving, so I can assure you it's not sour grapes at all.

Why do people always think that the ISL loves the Steelers, hates the Steelers, biased towards the Panthers, biased against the panthers, Carson loves the Steelers, Rowe is biased against Steelers etc etc, yada yada yada.

People seem to think that refs ISl oficials etc are all out to get thier team.

Here's what i think, they are crap, that's it.

Levins should have been banned twice.The fact that Laing got the same punishment as Thompson in THAT incident was a joke. There have been many more incidents when the punishment of lack of has been a joke.