Re: Hull KR Match Thread : Sat Apr 02, 2011 3:56 pm
R.B.A wrote:
However, the fact remains that we lost a player due to an incident that the ref deemed necessary to penalise you for.
You're conflating two things. The penalty was because in the ref's judgement Saints tackled a player before he came back to ground. Such tackles happen quite a bit over the course of a season, usually due to simple mistiming. However, not all players suffer knee injuries as a result. Therefore, you cannot say that Saints tackling Briscoe in the air (assuming the ref judged accurately) resulted in Briscoe suffering a knee injury.