Re: Ryan Hoffman : Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:56 pm  

St pete wrote:

He wants to know did you get stopwatch out and time the hoffaman " assault "

I didn't call it an assault. I didn't use that word or imply it. I called it a late hit. And it was a shoulder charge to his shoulder. How do I know? I've just watched the first half again because I loved our play while Gary Wheeler was on the pitch. We looked so good. And then that git Hoffman took him out.

And no, Rogues, the two were not comparable. When a player is pressurising a kicker he is not supposed to tackle the kicker but intercept the ball or distract the kicker. He shouldn't have been touching Wheeler, never mind taking him out so late that he had chance to look up.

Re: Ryan Hoffman : Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:09 pm  

Priceless!
Criticism of Hoffman from fans who excused Hooper for years when he did it three or four times a game, season after season.

Re: Ryan Hoffman : Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:13 pm  

Father Ted wrote:

Criticism of Hoffman from fans who excused Hooper for years when he did it three or four times a game, season after season.

Ah, so that makes Hoffman's dirty hit ok then, yes?

Re: Ryan Hoffman : Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:17 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Ah, so that makes Hoffman's dirty hit ok then, yes?

For gods sake give it up! He was committed to the tackle and was no intent. It happens every week by saints players and every other player in all levels of rugby.

The fact he was hurt is unfortunate but that's rugby. Also the fact we lost don't help.

If we'd won and and wheeler hadn't have got hurt you'd not even mention that tackle.

Re: Ryan Hoffman : Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:32 pm  

St pete wrote:

For gods sake give it up! He was committed to the tackle and was no intent. It happens every week by saints players and every other player in all levels of rugby.

The fact he was hurt is unfortunate but that's rugby. Also the fact we lost don't help.

If we'd won and and wheeler hadn't have got hurt you'd not even mention that tackle.

Exactly - people are judging the incident on the injury and not the actual fact that there is a millisecond between Wheeler commencing the kick and Hoffman jumping.

Re: Ryan Hoffman : Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:33 pm  

St pete wrote:

For gods sake give it up! He was committed to the tackle and was no intent. It happens every week by saints players and every other player in all levels of rugby.

The fact he was hurt is unfortunate but that's rugby. Also the fact we lost don't help.

If we'd won and and wheeler hadn't have got hurt you'd not even mention that tackle.

You give it up as well. Are you Jason Hooper by any chance?

The facts are that they've changed the interpretations of this rule so as pointed out by Royce after the game, it was a mistake by the officials to not sin bin Hoffman and give a penalty to Saints. I think he'll get one of those famous letters off the RFL this coming week.

Re: Ryan Hoffman : Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:39 pm  

only a letter ? ?.

Re: Ryan Hoffman : Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:14 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

You give it up as well. Are you Jason Hooper by any chance?

The facts are that they've changed the interpretations of this rule so as pointed out by Royce after the game, it was a mistake by the officials to not sin bin Hoffman and give a penalty to Saints. I think he'll get one of those famous letters off the RFL this coming week.

But for gods sake why can't she just let it go? The officials at the game didn't think anything of it, the offical in the crowd didn't either.

Let's see if the RFL think he's got a case to answer.

Re: Ryan Hoffman : Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:55 pm  

St pete wrote:

But for gods sake why can't she just let it go?

Translation: why can't she agree with me?

Let it go Pete! Why can't you let it go?

Re: Ryan Hoffman : Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:57 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Translation: why can't she agree with me?

Let it go Pete! Why can't you let it go?