Re: More unwelcome news ... : Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:32 pm  

Flanagan is solid, competitive, hard working and not without skill and will be missed this weekend and for the rest of the year. Here's to a full recovery.....

Re: More unwelcome news ... : Tue Apr 23, 2013 1:48 pm  

EHW wrote:

luckily we are playing London, so we are still in with half a chance this week.

As much as that?

Re: More unwelcome news ... : Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:35 pm  

saint at wire wrote:

Brown makes a strong point about the nature of how the injury was sustained and how poorly those sort of tackles are dealt with.

I hope he takes it up with the Jon Sharp and the RFL.

Perhaps not seeing as he has just been fined for having a go about the ref in the Cats game; it effectively gags him from complaining more about the illegal tackles on Flanagan and Le Franc.

Re: More unwelcome news ... : Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:20 am  

saint at wire wrote:

Perhaps not seeing as he has just been fined for having a go about the ref in the Cats game; it effectively gags him from complaining more about the illegal tackles on Flanagan and Le Franc.

It hasn't stopped him making comment about it though (see Saints website).

Re: More unwelcome news ... : Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:05 am  

I was stood in our East stand that game as always and as soon as the tackle was made I said to my mate "Mika will be in bother for that" I was really surprised there wasn't any further action considering Flanagan was down for some time and didn't return to the field

Re: More unwelcome news ... : Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:10 am  

Same happened to Puletua against Salford which put him out for 3-4 games, its an absolute joke.

Re: More unwelcome news ... : Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:42 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

It hasn't stopped him making comment about it though (see Saints website).

As it shouldn't - he should be shouting it as loud as possible in all the press avenues available as should the club administrators. We suffer for a couple of shoulder charges and a high tackle non of which has caused any of the players involved to even not be able to complete the game in progress yet we lose 2 key players .... typical RFL bullsh*t , more interested in implementing a stupid detrimental shoulder charge rule than protecting players

Re: More unwelcome news ... : Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:10 am  

No1 Saint wrote:

As it shouldn't - he should be shouting it as loud as possible in all the press avenues available as should the club administrators. We suffer for a couple of shoulder charges and a high tackle non of which has caused any of the players involved to even not be able to complete the game in progress yet we lose 2 key players .... typical RFL bullsh*t , more interested in implementing a stupid detrimental shoulder charge rule than protecting players

Meli was very lucky he didn't injure Craig Hall more seriously.
Welham is out for 4 weeks thanks to Gardners shoulder charge.
As far as Con Mika's tackle which the Rfl looked at and responded as,


ON/211/13
Name Constantine Mika
Club Hull KR
Shirt Number 11
Match Hull KR v St Helens
Competition Super League
Date 07/04/13
Incident considered Dangerous Contact in 4th minute (Flanagan)
Decision No charge
Details of Charge / Reason for NF Player tackles legs of opponent held in the tackle however first contact is around thigh


Why didn't Brown compain at the time?

Re: More unwelcome news ... : Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:08 am  

Red & White wrote:

ON/211/13
Name Constantine Mika
Club Hull KR
Shirt Number 11
Match Hull KR v St Helens
Competition Super League
Date 07/04/13
Incident considered Dangerous Contact in 4th minute (Flanagan)
Decision No charge
Details of Charge / Reason for NF Player tackles legs of opponent held in the tackle however first contact is around thigh

If first contact is the thigh, then how come he has done his ACL in? I thought that was around the knee joint?

Either way, how he has got away with ending someone's season is baffling to say the least.

And in terms of Meli, Chase got 3 games for shattering that poor bloke's jaw, yet Meli gets more for a clumsy tackle that was pretty bad? Seems fair.

Re: More unwelcome news ... : Wed Apr 24, 2013 12:01 pm  

Red & White wrote:

Meli was very lucky he didn't injure Craig Hall more seriously.
Welham is out for 4 weeks thanks to Gardners shoulder charge.
As far as Con Mika's tackle which the Rfl looked at and responded as,


ON/211/13
Name Constantine Mika
Club Hull KR
Shirt Number 11
Match Hull KR v St Helens
Competition Super League
Date 07/04/13
Incident considered Dangerous Contact in 4th minute (Flanagan)
Decision No charge
Details of Charge / Reason for NF Player tackles legs of opponent held in the tackle however first contact is around thigh


Why didn't Brown compain at the time?

For fans of a club, which counted Chris 'coathanger' Burton amongst its ranks, to lecture any one about high tackles is laughable at best!