: Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:02 pm  

gulfcoast_highwayman wrote:

Quality geekery.

Bravo sir.

From the great Lin Chung that is high praise indeed.

Re: Burrow getting KO'd : Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:05 pm  

Glenn Morangie wrote:

Don't confuse him with facts...

He said imo, an opinion isnt a fact, fact is it was round shoulder first before arm sliding up, referee could easily have played on, only stopped clock due to injury.

Re: Burrow getting KO'd : Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:08 pm  

ritz wrote:

He said imo, an opinion isnt a fact, fact is it was round shoulder first before arm sliding up, referee could easily have played on, only stopped clock due to injury.

You're correct that it is only an opinion but a sincerely held one non-the-less.

I didn't see any shoulder contact just neck and the margin for error is small eitherway, no pun intended.

Re: Burrow getting KO'd : Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:13 pm  

ritz wrote:

He said imo, an opinion isnt a fact, fact is it was round shoulder first before arm sliding up, referee could easily have played on, only stopped clock due to injury.

I suggest you take a look at it again.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:06 pm  

According to Sky the penalty was for a high tackle. It would therefore seem to me that if that was the decision there should have been some punishment for Watmough. I think Burrow was specifically and deliberatley targetted and from Manly's point of view a job was done.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:17 pm  

Seem to remember Paul Cooke nutting him a few years back (think it was 2005) when he played for Hull at Headingley

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:24 pm  

Gandy wrote:

Seem to remember Paul Cooke nutting him a few years back (think it was 2005) when he played for Hull at Headingley

Think that was to be Leeds player Jamie Thackray, wasn't it? Little Rob then waited until he next had the ball, dumped him on his back, pulled his shirt over his head, and started hitting him. One of the funniest things I've ever witnessed on a rugby pitch.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:27 pm  

Aye went to the game with L4L who proceeded to give him a piece of his mind and throw his whole beer at him but it went over most of the crowd and the linesman

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:35 pm  

Great hit by a great player, simple as that.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:55 pm  

Smurf wrote:

Great hit by a great player, simple as that.

Would have been even better if it had been legal.