BULLS may have been the ones left battered and bruised after last Friday's humiliating defeat to Newcastle, but the North-East side have been left counting the cost too.
Despite winning 53-10 in that Championship encounter, forward Alex Foster was sin-binned early on for Newcastle.
And he is now facing a ban of at least eight matches, after being charged with physically assaulting a referee.
That sin-binning occurred after he came into contact with referee Michael Smaill and Foster was yesterday charged with a Grade F offence by the Rugby Football League's match review panel.
Grade F is the most serious sanction available to the panel and usually carries a ban of eight-plus matches.
The panel referred former Castleford and London Broncos man Foster to a disciplinary hearing, where he awaits his fate.
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