Has the game of rugby league evolved to the point that the law makers have to start thinking about the integrity of the competition when it comes to sin binning and sending off players during a game? We are only three rounds into the competition, and yet we have seen several matches that it could be said have been unfairly influenced by the fact that a team has been reduced to 12 players for a ten minute period, or in Newcastle's case last weekend, the majority of the match.

Now some will argue that’s the penalty a team must face for illegal play, but in the 2020’s is it time to re-evaluate those thoughts, in a sport that prides itself on being the hardest and most exciting of the winter sports, on ensuring that both teams have an equal chance of winning the match rather than handing one of them a huge numerical advantage.

That’s today’s Talking Point on another largely opinionated without knowledge episode of Thoughts from the Metal Cavern.