How can you get away with just a caution for smacking someone in the face hard enough to fracture his eye socket? (according to teletext)

Play for Saints?

TBF it was just a tap - how he broke his eye socket is astonishing. Equally astonishing is how you can commit an illegal act with that result & get away with it.

Apparently, according to Saints fans, it was a pre-existing condition. He just was not aware of it. Cunnigham didn't do anything.

Looks like the RFL agree.

This is the same Keiron Cunningham who failed a drugs test but escaped a ban...........

he must have some good photos of the guys at Red Hall!!

But that wasn't his fault don't forget. It wasn't actually his body. Or something.

Regardless of how much damage he did, the cheap shot was there in close up for all to see. The league not banning him stinks.

But then, isn't it always the case with high profile players like him? Especially if they're due to play in any big games soon. It takes a pretty massive infringement for them to get any kind of ban.

To be fair, it was made worse by the alleged "fractured eye-socket" that is no longer an injury and could allow the guy to play at the weekend.


I think if he had been injured to that degree, KFC would not have got away with a "naughty boy letter".

It wasn't that bad and Peacock has got away with a lot more this year.

Sends out the wrong message i think, clearly visible on TV and a great opportunity to let people know it's not acceptable.

It looked like a 1 inch punch - deadly!

But he seems to have got away with cheap shots for most of his career

Had it been Newton, they'd have been calling for Sine Die. But hey ho...

Look i support Wakey - but i have to say what a load of nonsense this incident is. First off it was NOT a punch - how the hell can you clench your fist when there is a rugby ball in your hand???? My biggest concern is how our man reacted - like a footballer


Nothing broken - reports of fractures are a load of cobblers.
I hope he was genuinely hurt though otherwise i would be very disappointed if he was going down the theatrical route. Bit of egde is part of the game - if you dont like that go and watch a bit of ping pong.