Castleford Tigers coach Ryan Carr has admitted while he understands the ruling, he doesn\u2019t accept why winger Semi Valemei was handed a three-match ban for making contact with St Helens\u2019 Noah Stephens.<\/p>\n
Valemei was given a lengthy ban following the Tigers win over the Saints, after he was charged with making contact with a player who could have potentially been seriously injured.<\/p>\n
Carr has revealed that Valemei thought Stephens was potentially having a seizure after suffering a heavy head collision which prematurely ended his involvement in the game a fortnight ago. That led to the winger attempting to put Stephens into the recovery position as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n
But it was ultimately punished by the Rugby Football League\u2019s Match Review Panel \u2013 which Carr admitted he struggled to understand the logic of.<\/p>\n
Castleford coach queries ban<\/p>\n
Speaking in his weekly pre-match press conference, Carr admitted: \u201cSemi is one of the most genuine and kind-hearted people you\u2019ll ever meet in rugby league.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened was he\u2019s seen a player in real distress on the ground and he\u2019s flagged for the referee to stop the game. He was concerned he was having a seizure and he tried to roll him into the recovery position.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love that my players have that type of mentality to want to help someone who is in deep need. It\u2019s a real good trait to want to help someone as there\u2019s more to life than rugby league and he had that player\u2019s welfare in the highest of his thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked whether he agreed with the ban, Carr continued: \u201cThe ruling, we\u2019ve got to deal with it.. but I love my players show care for opposition players when it\u2019s quite scary in the heat of the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carr also said the point of the suspension which confused him most was the fact Stephens was allowed to be touched by his own team-mates \u2013 but not an opposition player who was merely trying to help.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cHe turned him into the recovery position but it\u2019s a bit of a tricky one. You see that your own players are allowed to come and touch you, so I don\u2019t quite understand that, I suppose.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what concerns me, I don\u2019t understand the ruling when there was no malice other than to help him. I appreciate it, and I\u2019ve got to accept that, but when your own team-mates can come in and pick you up a split second after Semi has touched him, that\u2019s what I don\u2019t understand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI applaud him for helping someone in deep distress. I can\u2019t get my head around it, when his own team-mates can pick him up. He\u2019s had to get that unfortunate news but he\u2019s training really hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Possible Valemei replacements<\/p>\n
One player who could be in contention to replace Valemei on the wing this weekend is Louis Senior, who has recovered from an ankle injury and is in the reckoning to make his first-team comeback.<\/p>\n
That would potentially pit him up against twin brother Innes, who is likely to start on the edges for the Leopards at Wheldon Road on Friday evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s ready to roll,\u201d Carr said. \u201cHe\u2019s played a couple of reserve matches and trained really well. He\u2019s forced his way back into fit form and he\u2019s definitely in the mix.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Castleford Tigers coach Ryan Carr has admitted while he understands the ruling, he doesn\u2019t accept why winger Semi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}