Was Taukeiaho unlucky to be sent to the bin for this accidental high shot?

Joister – we agree on the same point, I am trying to get with the program that a direct hit to the head (with some force), it’s a penalty 100% of the time. The Sin Bin really depends on the level of carelessness force, damage, regardless of accident or not. Proctor’s effort last week? yes should have been a binning too, if we start cherry picking on what gets binned and what doesn’t we will never achieve any consistency. So my approach is direct hit to head with some force is a sin bin regardless if it was an accident or not, or that lately the ‘in vogue excuse” is “what was he supposed to do become invisible”? In soccer, if you clip someone’s ankles regardless of intent, it’s a foul, League just has to get used to that concept for someone’s head.

Bracing for an unexpected collision is more a swinging arm.

Agree. I’ve been asking that one for a while as well.

Which begs the question ... at what point does at least some responsibility also fall on the attacking player?

I agree with you Harry … if you watch it in slow motion which was what the Bunker obviously did then you could say Taukeiaho led with his left shoulder … in the blink of an eye as Cleary is falling I’m not so sure?? But if them’s the rules then them’s the rules. I think at most it’s going to be a fine but the damage was done by being sent off for 10 minutes (although the chooks made errors aplenty to help the panthers to their merry score). Whilst Taukeiaho is a grey one I’m still scratching my head over why Reece was sin binned?

No malice,pouring rain, and Cleary falling like a Tedesco. A total accident,that in real time,happens in a split second,and shouldn't even be a penalty,let alone a sin bin. Of course looks way worse,slowed down and focused on by the bunker. More like the game on crack,than a consistent crackdown.

It was a true accident, in pouring rain mind you. Moreso, Panthers were happy to just play on at the time. That needs to mean something.

Yep. Both Tolman and Cleary were rewarded for their own incompetence.

It was a swinging arm. The fact it made contact with Cleary’s head might have been accidental but the force of the contact wasn’t. It was careless and/or reckless play. I’m happy with that being 10 minutes if - and this is the big question - it’s 10 minutes every time.

Related to this is how Robbo is starting to show obvious signs of frustration. I get it must be hard patching a team together each week (had to drop Walker this week and shuffle backline again) and was thinking that maybe you could lend him your glasses Big Mig so he can see that everything is consistent and hunky doory in the world of NRL. And I for one agree with crackdown (having been knocked out a few times myself when playing reps for the pure intention of being rubbed out of a game) - my frustration is actually the lack of consistency and so can feel for not just Robbo but other coaches (e.g. Proctor last week) and lack of commonsense (e.g. Reece Robson's tackle on Tolman ... you want players to go low to avoid contact with the head then how low do you want them to go? it was shaping up to be a great tackle before Tolman lowered himself and so instead of being rewarded is punished with 10 in the bin??).

Consistent as with Proctor’s effort last week? or shoulder charge to Manu?

Direct hit to the head (with some force), it's a penalty 100% of the time. The Sin Bin is consistent with what we have seen since the Magic Round crackdown. Move on.