Re: So it's ok then! : Thu Sep 19, 2013 10:44 am  

Micky did get sent off v Bradford last year for a single punch on Elima.
Paul Wood threw a single punch at Ablett in last year's Cup Final. Stayed on the field, penalty to Leeds and Wire won the game.
Briers throws a punch, stays on the field, penalty to Leeds and Wire win the game.
All three were charged with Grade A offences.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: So it's ok then! : Thu Sep 19, 2013 11:40 am  

Paul wood threw that punch after getting slapped in the face by carl ablett.

It's amazing how ablett keeps coming in for these incidents despite 'not doing anything'.

Re: So it's ok then! : Thu Sep 19, 2013 12:09 pm  

Father Ted wrote:

Micky did get sent off v Bradford last year for a single punch on Elima.

I know he did. Hence why I said he did.

Re: So it's ok then! : Mon Sep 23, 2013 7:12 am  

So is Ryan Bailey on charge for throwing his knee in a tackle YET AGAIN??? or is he free to do it YET AGAIN?

Re: So it's ok then! : Mon Sep 23, 2013 11:43 am  

Mash Butty wrote:

So is Ryan Bailey on charge for throwing his knee in a tackle YET AGAIN??? or is he free to do it YET AGAIN?

I think you may find that due to his stalwart character and total lack of discipline issues that it would be easily brushed under the carpet once more.
IMO, Bailey is a thug. The game is hard enough without brain dead eeejuts like him. Hope someone gives him a really good talking to.

Re: So it's ok then! : Tue Sep 24, 2013 11:45 am  

As a neutral fan watching that game i remember feeling sorry for Leeds as if anything was to have happened to Briers upon a disciplinary meeting then it wouldn't have benefitted Leeds in any way during that game.

but as many allude to already, we don't know the full story for sure and can only comment on our opinion of the incident from what we can see. he also went on to pop in that amazing 40/20 which continued to pile the pressure on the leeds defence which in turn took its toll. would have been a totally different game with briers on the bench for 10 mins i'd imagine...

in hindsight, he's got away with it and should learn from it but i wouldn't be suprised if saints and then if Wire win, in the GF against either us or Leeds, that whoever the opposition they will continue to try and wind him up.

i hope someone fairly and squarely duffs him in a decent gut busting tackle and takes him out of the game. will serve him right. he should not have got away with it just because of who he is, which is what my opinion on the matter is.

cracking player as much as i hate to say it, but we all have our own versions of that kind of player in our teams so lets just hope its rectified somehow along the way to the GF!

Re: So it's ok then! : Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:02 pm  

Some of the Briers hatred on here is comical.

Re: So it's ok then! : Wed Sep 25, 2013 7:18 am  

Timmy the Koi wrote:

Some of the Briers hatred on here is comical.

Is it as comical as the Sam hatred on the Leeds/Wire/Saints boards? (and ours now I guess lol)

Re: So it's ok then! : Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:51 pm  

This link just turned up somewhere else. I can't believe we're still discussing a punch on a rugby pitch over a week later!

What Karl Fairbank, Kurt Sorensen and Kelvin Skerrett (to pick a few from my early days watching RL - I'm not so old...) must make of this I dread to think.

Re: So it's ok then! : Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:04 pm  

El Diablo wrote:

This link just turned up somewhere else. I can't believe we're still discussing a punch on a rugby pitch over a week later!

What Karl Fairbank, Kurt Sorensen and Kelvin Skerrett (to pick a few from my early days watching RL - I'm not so old...) must make of this I dread to think.

Totally, utterly and unequivocally agree

I hate the little weasel, but he has only thrown a punch.

Fair enough it was on the back of Ablett's melon, but that is the only controversial point.

Whoop de doo a rugby player throws a fist!

Its has been and hopefully always will be part of the game.

Fair enough if you bite, grab the goolies, gouge, twist a limb, spear or lead with the knees you deserve the book thrown at you.

But a red card for a cheeky right hook?

what is the world coming to

I appreciate that many teams players have seen a straight red this year and the situation "should" have been treated the same. Maybe the RFL have decided to go a little easier on a straight fight?

If we all keep moaning about it they might start rolling out the reds every time. I dont want that.

Nothing wrong with a bit of man dancing