Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
What a pointless response. First, where is your evidence that legal tackles to the legs cause accidents. (Illegal ones are not relevant - they shouldn't happen and if they do should be penalized). There isn't any that I know of, other than the obvious fact that for every 1000 legal tackles of any sort, a fairly predictable small percentage will unpredictably result in some unintended injury.
Stefan ratchford, 2013 Grand Final, two up top and Harrison Hansen comes in at an odd angle from behind through what was designated his hip and deemed a legal challenge. But Hansen took his leg out and he fell so awkwardly with two tacklers on top, and one underneath pushing his leg in a different direction, it was so awkward looking you could imagine it on a fail army video on YouTube.
Yeah injuries do happen, I understand that, see the boudebza tackle, I think that was an accident, and didn't deserve 4 games, but the type of thing you see repeatedly in wigan is the lunging really hard with the shoulder at the knees and lower unexpectedly.
That's all I'm talking about