Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Aug 15, 2023 6:59 pm  

karetaker wrote: Oh dear appeal failed, standards slipping https://www.rugby-league.com/article/62 ... matty-lees Wonder what happened to the increases in ban length due to frivolous appeals? Saddened could have written even longer posts to us on this subject that we could have skipped.

karetaker wrote: Oh dear appeal failed, standards slipping https://www.rugby-league.com/article/62 ... matty-lees Wonder what happened to the increases in ban length due to frivolous appeals? Saddened could have written even longer posts to us on this subject that we could have skipped.

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:05 pm  

Matt King's kitten wrote:

Wonder what happened to the increases in ban length due to frivolous appeals? Saddened could have written even longer posts to us on this subject that we could have skipped.

Presumably it wasn't a frivolous appeal? I don't mind the ban for Lees, there was head contact in there.

It's them letting Matty English off with one of the worst tackles this season that is the issue. If cannonball tackles are allowed again, we're going to see a lot more players on crutches or in wheelchairs. I suspect there would be an enormous controversy if a Saints player did one. The MRP is a farce.

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:51 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Presumably it wasn't a frivolous appeal? I don't mind the ban for Lees, there was head contact in there.

It's them letting Matty English off with one of the worst tackles this season that is the issue. If cannonball tackles are allowed again, we're going to see a lot more players on crutches or in wheelchairs. I suspect there would be an enormous controversy if a Saints player did one. The MRP is a farce.

re. Matty English tackle. Have you got a video of this?

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:59 pm  

Smiffy27 wrote: re. Matty English tackle. Have you got a video of this? https://tv.saintsrlfc.com/2023/08/14/hi ... d-round-1/ 1m10 to 1m30

Smiffy27 wrote: re. Matty English tackle. Have you got a video of this? https://tv.saintsrlfc.com/2023/08/14/hi ... d-round-1/ 1m10 to 1m30

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:16 pm  

One of the worst tackles of the season?!? Massive overreaction. Seems to me he hits the back of the knee, so joint wasn’t compromised. Penalty and sin bin fair as he should have just wrapped the legs rather than gone in with any force.

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:23 pm  

Alffi_7 wrote:

One of the worst tackles of the season?!? Massive overreaction. Seems to me he hits the back of the knee, so joint wasn’t compromised. Penalty and sin bin fair as he should have just wrapped the legs rather than gone in with any force.

I suggest you watch again. He hits the side of the bearing knee. Percival luckily lifted his leg which is why he rotated into the crook of the knee. If Percival had kept the leg planted it could have ended his season.

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:34 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

I suggest you watch again. He hits the side of the bearing knee. Percival luckily lifted his leg which is why he rotated into the crook of the knee. If Percival had kept the leg planted it could have ended his season.

I’ve watched it, if he had hit from the side and his foot had been planted I agree a lengthy ban, but that wasn’t the case.

The reckless nature of the tackle was punished with a sin bin, better it’s punished on the field than later on. Presumably had the ref spotted the Lees one he would have seen red - but the camera isn’t great viewing it from the highlights posted so I can’t see where the initial contact was

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:57 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Presumably it wasn't a frivolous appeal? I don't mind the ban for Lees, there was head contact in there.

It's them letting Matty English off with one of the worst tackles this season that is the issue. If cannonball tackles are allowed again, we're going to see a lot more players on crutches or in wheelchairs. I suspect there would be an enormous controversy if a Saints player did one. The MRP is a farce.

Always an angle with you.

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Tue Aug 15, 2023 9:25 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Presumably it wasn't a frivolous appeal? I don't mind the ban for Lees, there was head contact in there.

It's them letting Matty English off with one of the worst tackles this season that is the issue. If cannonball tackles are allowed again, we're going to see a lot more players on crutches or in wheelchairs. I suspect there would be an enormous controversy if a Saints player did one. The MRP is a farce.

Players on crutches? Yes I believe Mike Cooper is still using his and will be doing so for some time. But of course as we know the MRP is an anti Saints carve up. How many games did Knowles get again?

Re: This week’s disciplinary : Wed Aug 16, 2023 12:16 am  

Matt King's kitten wrote:

Players on crutches? Yes I believe Mike Cooper is still using his and will be doing so for some time. But of course as we know the MRP is an anti Saints carve up. How many games did Knowles get again?

What has that got to do with anything? Knowles tried to pull Cooper down, he didn't deliberately injure him. English just throws himself through Percival's knee. You'll never look objectively at it as it's a Saints player on the receiving end, so it can't be bad by default. If a Knowles or Mata'utia did that exact tackle it'd be a grade F and you'd think it was horrific.