Puletua sending Off : Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:47 pm  

Rubbish never a high tackle

Re: Puletua sending Off : Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:56 pm  

Pathetic. Shoulder contact and his arm came up after , disgusting decision given by Ian Smith the worlds worst ref

Re: Puletua sending Off : Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:00 pm  

however, he did disallow their last " try" which another VR could have given!!
agreed though that TP s shoulder charge was fair.
well played lads.

Re: Puletua sending Off : Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:05 pm  

Farcical. Fairly similar to Moa's earlier in the season but not as bad, that wasn't a sending off either.

Re: Puletua sending Off : Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:05 pm  

Both players go at it shoulder to shoulder and the Frenchy just bends his legs to give a push off into the shoulder charge. There was no raised arm and simply how you can give a red off the is mind blowing.

When Sam Burgess played in SL, the SKY commentors gave huge raps for a similar tackle on Frodsham, which knocked him out cold.

Put simply if that's the rule now, Burgess would never have played SL, he would have seen Red every other match.

Stupid decision.

Re: Puletua sending Off : Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:08 pm  

Poor decision, it's not even a penalty. It's poor technique from Henderson, you dip your head into a challenge that it always shoulder on shoulder and it's your own fault. TP doesn't deliberately attack the head.

If they've outlawed the use of the shoulder, they need to communicate that to people. SBW might be better not returning to league if that's happened and someone better tell Burgess.

Re: Puletua sending Off : Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:11 pm  

I thought he dipped his head too, but did not want to stand accused of blaming the Catalans player. It was just poor all round.

Re: Puletua sending Off : Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:11 pm  

It was a superb challenge - if we start penalising them then we're slowing turning the sport into a game of touch rugby.

Someone mentioned Sam Burgess on Frodsham. Well how about Sam Burgess's legendary tackle on Fuifui Moimoi? Very similar to TP's challenge today and Burgess was (rightly) lauded for his shot.

Re: Puletua sending Off : Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:13 pm  

Ryan Bailey on Fa'asavalu is another?

Re: Puletua sending Off : Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:19 pm  

rammsteinbloke wrote:

It was a superb challenge - if we start penalising them then we're slowing turning the sport into a game of touch rugby.

Someone mentioned Sam Burgess on Frodsham. Well how about Sam Burgess's legendary tackle on Fuifui Moimoi? Very similar to TP's challenge today and Burgess was (rightly) lauded for his shot.

I only mentioned the Frodsham one as he was out cold on the floor. But if we are banning shoulder charges well does that go for attacking players as well as defending players..


Where are those tackle strips, get them on the players and we can pull them off and make it non contact.