Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Jul 25, 2023 1:13 pm  

So all those that got a ban this weekend are appealing.

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Jul 25, 2023 7:49 pm  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/66301945

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/66301945

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Jul 25, 2023 8:18 pm  

karetaker wrote:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/66301945

Wellens is complaining that Asiata didn`t get suspended for making totally legal tackles on St. Helens players who unfortunately were injured, but Knowles was banned for making an illegal tackle when the player was also injured?

Is he for real?

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Jul 25, 2023 8:54 pm  

They lost, so the bias against Saints is obviously back, that's the only possible reason there could ever be for them not winning a trophy.

Fwiw I thought both incidents were a little unsavoury, the injuries weren't intentional though and the result of the game was a fair one IMO, Leigh were the better side.

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Jul 25, 2023 8:58 pm  

Asiata’s tackling technique does seem reckless, but would’ve thought he would be the person most likely to get hurt.

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Jul 25, 2023 8:59 pm  

Nasty injury to Paasi, wouldn’t wish it on anyone btw

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:59 pm  

Looked like a kind of horizontal shoulder charge technique to me, so I would of thought it would be against the current rules on that basis. The modern game, with all the emphasis on player welfare, simply can't sustain a situation where players habitually launching themselves horizontally head-first at each other, similar to these Asiata tackles and how Vila Matautia used to do years back when he was carrying the ball. I expect it will be clamped down on at some point. Probably treated similar to how 'hip drops' were this season.

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Jul 25, 2023 10:01 pm  

Slightly ironic that at a time when the RL are trialling tackles below the armpit only rules, its two tackles round the legs that have caused so much controversy.

I must admit, for all the plucky Leigh, everyone loves an underdog, didn't they do well Bruce Forsythe-isms there is something a little unpalatable about them, and how they go about their business.

The kit is a crime against fashion for a start.

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Wed Jul 26, 2023 8:05 am  

Any player who causes 4 injuries in one game needs to have his technique looked at. If he wasn't actually breaking any current laws then there needs to be consideration of a change of law and quickly.

[Wanderer]

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Wed Jul 26, 2023 9:38 am  

It strikes me (no pun intended) that it's simply a variation on a cannonball tackle and as such should probably treated the same and outlawed.