Re: Chase - how long ban? : Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:21 pm  

Anakin Skywalker wrote:

The problem is that pretty much to a man everyone agrees that it was nothing short of thugish and didn't look anything like a tackle............Everyone saw that apart from some Cas fans.
Strange that eh!!
Maybe just maybe it is you who 'needs their head testing' and the RFL show grow a set and actually put a proper marker down on this kind of stuff.

He went for a big hit. Players do it every week, in every game, in every season. Why do you think there is all this furore over shoulder charges?

There has been only one Cas fan who has said that it wasn't a high tackle - ONE. Everyone else I've said, myself included, has agreed that it warrants a ban.

Re: Chase - how long ban? : Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:41 pm  

Fully wrote:

He went for a big hit. Players do it every week, in every game, in every season. Why do you think there is all this furore over shoulder charges?

There has been only one Cas fan who has said that it wasn't a high tackle - ONE. Everyone else I've said, myself included, has agreed that it warrants a ban.

Most players don't deliberately raise and smash their arm into an opponent's face when they 'shoulder charge'. Amazing after the obvious video evidence on this thread that anyone is still blinkered enough to see it as anything other than an act of thuggery.

Re: Chase - how long ban? : Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:50 pm  

Fully wrote:

Do you genuinely believe that players deliberately set out to injure each other?

If you think they never do then you're away with the fairies.

It was a deliberate short-arm shot

Re: Chase - how long ban? : Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:52 pm  

Chief Stinkwort wrote:

Most players don't deliberately raise and smash their arm into an opponent's face when they 'shoulder charge'. Amazing after the obvious video evidence on this thread that anyone is still blinkered enough to see it as anything other than an act of thuggery.

Where did I say that this was a shoulder charge? I was making a point that big hits occur every season and that the shoulder charge is one instance that exemplifies that.

Re: Chase - how long ban? : Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:53 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

If you think they never do then you're away with the fairies.

It was a deliberate short-arm shot

I would hope the majority of players hold a mutual respect for each other and are consummate professionals. I would be extremely disgusted with any rugby league players that looks to injure someone else.

Re: Chase - how long ban? : Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:59 pm  

Fully wrote:

I would hope the majority of players hold a mutual respect for each other and are consummate professionals. I would be extremely disgusted with any rugby league players that looks to injure someone else.

So you can understand why the majority of people are disgusted with Chase then! because that is exactly what he did!

Re: Chase - how long ban? : Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:00 pm  

Five matches would be about right. Three as charged, plus one extra match for for each of the guidelines refering to the injury the player has suffered and Chases' previous record of having been found guilty of striking twice in the last 12 months.

With the challenge cup weekends in between that would mean Chase would be back playing around early-mid June and be hopefully on a par with what Ropati will miss (depending how bad the injury is obviously).

Re: Chase - how long ban? : Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:02 pm  

Chief Stinkwort wrote:

Most players don't deliberately raise and smash their arm into an opponent's face when they 'shoulder-charge'. Amazing after the obvious video evidence on this thread that anyone is still blinkered enough to see it as anything other than an act of thuggery.

Fully wrote:

Where did I say that this was a shoulder charge? I was making a point that big hits occur every season and that the shoulder charge is one instance that exemplifies that.

Point taken.
Most players don't deliberately raise and smash their arm into an opponent's face when they put on a big hit. Amazing after the obvious video evidence on this thread that anyone is still blinkered enough to see it as anything other than an act of thuggery.

Re: Chase - how long ban? : Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:02 pm  

It'd be more convincing as a big hit gone wrong if he hadn't stood over him, glared at him and had a word at him about how big a man he obviously now is. Even Youngquest looked disgusted.

Re: Chase - how long ban? : Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:03 pm  

Marfa Manu wrote:

So you can understand why the majority of people are disgusted with Chase then! because that is exactly what he did!

Prove it.

In fact, you prove exactly what his intentions/motives/thought processes were at that point.

Thought not.