How on earth have the managed to come to that conclusion already?



Literally making stuff up

Some people have lost the plot with this. 12000+ people watched those tackles live and clear and nobody batted an eyelid. The commentary team watched it in slow mo a few times and said nothing other than it being great desperate defence.



Taking a big bloke down by the legs is textbook. Its a shame Paasi is injured but the tackle was just gritty, last ditch defence on a huge man charging at the line. Calls for a ban are madness. Great D to keep Saints out.

Parsi will not be as sore as "Saddened" is as a loser. Worra plonker!

This is an argument I made when the big uproar came about high tackles etc, there will be far more injuries with players tackling lower, as is proven here, 2 fantastic tackles - but they have a much higher chance to cause serious injury than a tackle around the shoulder which we are now outlawing!!!

Can I suggest players stop at first contact with a defender, nobody should get hurt then. Asiata clearly attempts a tackle in both instances with arms apart,

More a deliberate attempt to stop the player than an attempt to injure.



Asiata is a religious man and I very much doubt he would ever intentionally harm anyone.

so no mention of late head high shots.typical of unbiased Mr wilkin.

He doesn't though. He drops the shoulder dangerously/recklessly into the planted knee of a player. It's insanely dangerous and incredibly stupid, for both the ball carrier and the tackler. Had he made either of those tackles on the torso of the player, he'd have been sent off, there are no arms in either of them, only shoulder. In a normal tackle on the legs, you hold the legs to send the player down in line with their own momentum, which is relatively safe. With that technique, he's sending the knee joint the other way, the way it doesn't bend. It's crazy technique. He's effectively doing a cannonball from the front, it's absolute madness. It's either going to mangle the leg of the ball carrier or knock himself out in the majority of cases.



To suggest those were in any way good tackles or normal technique is bizarre.

2 words



Chicken

Wing



If you need a 3rd to jog your memory you can have "Knowles".

The trolling on here is so bad. If you're going to throw nonsense like that in, at least make it somewhat relevant to something.

Yeah religion or people of religion never hurt anyone kids...

literally the irony of a saints fan bemoaning tackling techniques that injure players when his club are the masters of this.......



the amount of dubious 3rd man in targeting legs for saints is unreal.