: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:12 am  

LewisJ23 wrote:

Lee Gilmour CLEARLY looks at westy before going for his head.

Is that legal ?

Thought not.

Ban him for looking.

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:18 am  

True rugby League fans do not like to see serious injury! Get well soon Joe. Wakey Fan!

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:26 am  

Don Brennan wrote:

:lol:

Ban him for looking.

Now surely looking at his head before going for the mans head shows intent ?

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:44 am  

Just this minute seen the tackle on SSN.
Gilmore did go high but joe was stooping down.
The only thing that really annoyes me is joe didnt even have the ball, it went behind him.
Tackled with out ball is that an offence. Mmm

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:56 am  

Get well soon xx

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:59 am  

LewisJ23 wrote:

Sorry i'm a very fair person as views go but that was a disgrace. Anyone who disagrees with me should look at it with a beatuiful thing called sky plus and slow it down, Gilmour is looking straight at his head and takes him out. He didn't look at the ball and i'm sorry thats a ban.

i too have sky+ and as bigger cas fan as any and i'm sorry i dont see it being anything other than a push off the ball happens every game and normally results in the player stumbling as he moves on but on this ocasion JW was too laxidasicle in his runnin/stance and fell to the floor very awkwardly!!!

no ban and no case to answer but an apology to JW wouldnt go a miss.

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:21 am  

Get well soon Joe.

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:36 am  

poppys mum wrote:

Just this minute seen the tackle on SSN.
Gilmore did go high but joe was stooping down.
The only thing that really annoyes me is joe didnt even have the ball, it went behind him.
Tackled with out ball is that an offence. Mmm

Having just watched it back there was nothing wrong with the tackle and he only lost the ball seconds before so Gilmour did nothing wrong it was just very unlucky.

: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:37 am  

just seen it the pass from fookitupmoaner was atrocious, Joe bent for the ball, but Gilmore was on him, contact with the head took place but as Joe was bending down is this classed as a high tackle Joe fell awkwardly obviously concussed so a culmination of the head contact and his falling were to blame. foul play... id say not intentional just a terrible injury get well soon lad

Definite : Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:51 am  

Absolutely nothing I can see wrong in the play leading up to the incident, culmination of factors led to Joe being knocked out and clearly lost consciousness.

Having a fit having suffered a head injury is not especially uncommon at amateur level one of my mates has played in 5 or 6 games it has happened in - that is just a poll of 1 person. Though very distressing and as a father and husband - I wish nothing but the best and a speedy and 100% recovery for a bright young star.

I think some people are looking at the outcome of the incident and trying to make a crime fit the result - but sometimes in a professional collision sport things like this just happen. There isn't always a villain, the best thing we can do is wish Joe and the Westy family all the best and a speedy and complete recovery, I am sure in the weeks to come if he remembers it he will clear up there was no malice or intent in the collision and he will have had worse and got up from them, it's just this one was a seriously bad outcome.