Re: Puletua sending Off : Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:24 am  

Stand-Offish wrote:

A terrible sending off decision, and I think he will get no further punishment.
Luckily Saints didn't lose as a result.
It's a real potential game changer when someone gets sent off compared with the usual 'on report'. Whoever made this decision is an @rsehole.

Thaler just gets sillier.
That try by the Catalans when the scorer hit the post in the action of scoring a try demonstrated it.
Thaler was in the best position in the park but still passed it upstairs.
Sign of the times I suppose, better to be safe than sorry.
Yet he disallowed instantly another Catalans attempt when the bloke dropped it in the action of trying to score.
Both were obvious, but only one went upstairs.
But neither should have.

As a Wigan fan, his constant using of the screen was really annoying me after last week (we didn't deserve to win before anyone thinks I'm blaming him) especially the Raguin try when he went for a knock on in the build up.

Re: Puletua sending Off : Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:38 am  

Conroy wrote:

Was a penalty, nothing more. Thought your defence tonight was excellent. You got the better of some dodgy calls, but to defend as many 'danger' sets as you did deserves credit.

Seems you could be coming good at playoff time once again.

You are right, most sides would have crumbled under that pressure.

Re: Puletua sending Off : Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:44 am  

Shocking decision. The game's gone soft.

Re: Puletua sending Off : Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:52 am  

shoulder made contact with the head its a red card, its the defender who has to control a tackle not the attacker. i am guessing the people who are saying that its allowed in the nrl haven't watched many games this season? Frankie pritchard got a 3 game ban for the exact same tackle. Sam Burgess last weekend mopped up Luke O'Donnell younger brother and they kept checking with the big screen to make sure hes shoulder didn't make contact with the head. alot of times this season players have decided to stay down when they have been tackled high so the refs have to go to the big screen.

Re: Puletua sending Off : Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:51 am  

dubairl wrote:

shoulder made contact with the head its a red card, its the defender who has to control a tackle not the attacker. i am guessing the people who are saying that its allowed in the nrl haven't watched many games this season? Frankie pritchard got a 3 game ban for the exact same tackle. Sam Burgess last weekend mopped up Luke O'Donnell younger brother and they kept checking with the big screen to make sure hes shoulder didn't make contact with the head. alot of times this season players have decided to stay down when they have been tackled high so the refs have to go to the big screen.

Except that it didnt. He hit the chest first. It was laughable how the idiots in the SKY commentary box mentioned about elbows - the elbow is bound to come up when you go in with the shoulder. Henderson went into that tackle like a pussy and got a pearler of a hit which was a great tackle. Seem to remeber Frodsham being knocked cold by Burgess and the SKY team creamed their knickers.

Re: Puletua sending Off : Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:55 am  

dubairl wrote:

shoulder made contact with the head its a red card, its the defender who has to control a tackle not the attacker. i am guessing the people who are saying that its allowed in the nrl haven't watched many games this season? Frankie pritchard got a 3 game ban for the exact same tackle. Sam Burgess last weekend mopped up Luke O'Donnell younger brother and they kept checking with the big screen to make sure hes shoulder didn't make contact with the head. alot of times this season players have decided to stay down when they have been tackled high so the refs have to go to the big screen.

What a steaming pile of horse. If as an attacker all you need to do to get a penalty is run low at the biggest guy then fall on the floor this game is finished. If TP had took his head off I agree it's a red but he ran into it ! utter

Re: Puletua sending Off : Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:00 am  

dreadfull decision his elbow only came up after the collision , no case to answer

Re: Puletua sending Off : Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:08 am  

No1 Saint wrote:

dubairl wrote:

shoulder made contact with the head its a red card, its the defender who has to control a tackle not the attacker. i am guessing the people who are saying that its allowed in the nrl haven't watched many games this season? Frankie pritchard got a 3 game ban for the exact same tackle. Sam Burgess last weekend mopped up Luke O'Donnell younger brother and they kept checking with the big screen to make sure hes shoulder didn't make contact with the head. alot of times this season players have decided to stay down when they have been tackled high so the refs have to go to the big screen.

What a steaming pile of horse. If as an attacker all you need to do to get a penalty is run low at the biggest guy then fall on the floor this game is finished. If TP had took his head off I agree it's a red but he ran into it ! utter

if tp bent hes knees a little it would of been a legal shoulder charge, he didnt get low enough, rob burrow gets given penaltys all the time and he ducks with hes head so whats the difference? also when players are slipping over the defender still cant make contact with the head. end of the day it is the tacklers responsibility to make sure its a legal tackle and what tp did isn't legal.

Re: Puletua sending Off : Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:15 am  

dubairl wrote:

if tp bent hes knees a little it would of been a legal shoulder charge, he didnt get low enough, rob burrow gets given penaltys all the time and he ducks with hes head so whats the difference? also when players are slipping over the defender still cant make contact with the head. end of the day it is the tacklers responsibility to make sure its a legal tackle and what tp did isn't legal.

If he had bent his knees it would have looked even worse as it would have looked like he was making a deliberate charge for the head.

Re: Puletua sending Off : Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:54 am  

The Catalan player ended up with a bust nose, that suggests to me that there was contact with his head. I didn't think that he intended to attack the head though.