Re: GRAND FINAL WEEK : Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:30 am  

Jukesays wrote:

So whilst agreeing that it wasn't the best tackle Hansen ever made

I think his coach would disagree behind close doors...job done...pat on the back Mr Hansen. Dark arts.

Re: GRAND FINAL WEEK : Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:51 am  

Willzay wrote:

Wasn't there's actual footage of Wane saying something along the lines of "go out there and cause f#####g mayhem" on the Auz WCC?

Something along those Lines - Yes - And?

Re: GRAND FINAL WEEK : Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:01 am  

Oxford Exile wrote:

I think his coach would disagree behind close doors...job done...pat on the back Mr Hansen. Dark arts.

So No reply then to the statements made?
You would say it was "Violence"?
You would say that his coach told him to deliberately do that?
You think if the coach did say that Hansen was the player he would pick to do that? A player with as far as I am aware an exemplary record?
And it was more deliberate, violent, dirty, whatever you want to call it than Westwood?

Ok

I guess it was Richards fault that Monaghan went off also?

I'll guarantee that there'll be no excuses from me tomorrow if Wigan lose.

I could argue numerous things in finals that we've lost, I won't though.
Because top line is you play the game, you win or lose.
Take it on the chin and get on with it - And certainly don't get your excuses in early, it's like setting yourself up to fail.

As I've said on this and another thread (Mal Reilly thread) there's people who want the game played tough/hard etc. and yet the Faux outrage when a penalty or a decision doesn't go there way is laughable.
To be fair there's a lot of fans of all teams that are the same, same as All teams play and try to do the same things i.e. slow the PTB down etc.
However some fans and some teams moan when it doesn't go there way and look for excuses. Others just get on with the job and get it done.

[Karen]

Re: GRAND FINAL WEEK : Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:54 am  

Can we stop with the "your players are dirtier that ours" tit for tat and get back to the subject of the actual game please.

Re: GRAND FINAL WEEK : Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:36 am  

Willzay wrote:

Are you getting mixed up with Stuart Fielden.

Nope. Was against Cas

Regards

King James

Re: GRAND FINAL WEEK : Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:47 am  

Sal Paradise wrote:

The most blatant piece of thuggery we have seen on a rugby field since the Widnes team of the 80-90s. It finished a career and it should have finished his.

It didn't. Just a suggestion but why don't you try reading the research rather than making I'll informed comments.

Not defending it btw but let's not pretend it was something it wasn't. People get assaulted like that literally every day without suffering what this punch was supposed to have caused. A blow from Mike Tyson, never mind Ben Flower, couldn't cause what this is being blamed for... and again I mean that literally.

Re: GRAND FINAL WEEK : Fri Oct 12, 2018 1:13 pm  

Phuzzy wrote:

It didn't. Just a suggestion but why don't you try reading the research rather than making I'll informed comments.

Not defending it btw but let's not pretend it was something it wasn't. People get assaulted like that literally every day without suffering what this punch was supposed to have caused. A blow from Mike Tyson, never mind Ben Flower, couldn't cause what this is being blamed for... and again I mean that literally.

The player was never the same again - seldom do people get such a direct hit from a defenceless prone position as Hohaia was and seldom from a athlete that so highly trained. We see plenty of cases where one punch can kill someone. I think you need to read the research.

He should have received a life ban - there is a difference between throwing punches that can be defended but to hit someone who cannot defend themselves is gutless and has no place in our game.

Re: GRAND FINAL WEEK : Fri Oct 12, 2018 1:26 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote: The player was never the same again - seldom do people get such a direct hit from a defenceless prone position as Hohaia was and seldom from a athlete that so highly trained. We see plenty of cases where one punch can kill someone. I think you need to read the research. He should have received a life ban - there is a difference between throwing punches that can be defended but to hit someone who cannot defend themselves is gutless and has no place in our game. We've never seen anything like that at Wigan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HCyzM0V4pk It was his last season

Sal Paradise wrote: The player was never the same again - seldom do people get such a direct hit from a defenceless prone position as Hohaia was and seldom from a athlete that so highly trained. We see plenty of cases where one punch can kill someone. I think you need to read the research. He should have received a life ban - there is a difference between throwing punches that can be defended but to hit someone who cannot defend themselves is gutless and has no place in our game. We've never seen anything like that at Wigan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HCyzM0V4pk It was his last season

Re: GRAND FINAL WEEK : Fri Oct 12, 2018 1:40 pm  

Westwoods cheap shot on green was disgraceful. Wigan fans call him a thug yet their coach openly admits he is the one player he would've loved to have coached.

Re: GRAND FINAL WEEK : Fri Oct 12, 2018 2:03 pm  

Mash Butty wrote: We've never seen anything like that at Wigan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HCyzM0V4pk It was his last season Still a "tickle" compared to Flowers attack on Hohaia.

Mash Butty wrote: We've never seen anything like that at Wigan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HCyzM0V4pk It was his last season Still a "tickle" compared to Flowers attack on Hohaia.