Cowardly cheap shot

[TheDalek079]

Last night it was a 20m restart and Sonny-Bill was jogging back to get onside. Then suddenly completely unprovoked a Worrier (Hurrell?) cheap shotted Sonny from behind.

Completely disgraceful. Shocking. And cowardly. He can try and take Sonny from behind but wouldn't dare try and fight him face to face.

IMO this is a poor representation of our sport. We fight as equals. Who can forget Price and the NSW guy (forget his name) having a good ol' slugfest in SOO (Pricey then gets knocked out and Waterhouse comes in and tackles him)? Hitting from behind is cowardly and should be beneath NRL players. Hopefully this unsavoury incident will not tarnish our game as a whole but will be restricted to the scummy Warriors franchise.


What did you make of the incident?

 

[attamarrap]

Is this a joke? He pushed him it wasn't a Danny Williams or anything move on nothing to see

 

[POPEYE]

Fmd . . . catch nothing with that

 

[cleary89]

U so dumb

 

[Skinner]

fmd

 

[NRLMad]

Nothing in it. All he did was push him? Maybe you saw something different? Also, it said in the paper he was sticking up for someone? I reckon it's far more cowardly to do chicken wings - and the roosters loved them last night - especially Jennings

 

[Grapple]

IMO this is a poor representation of our sport. We fight as equals.

:lol::lol:

 

[jamaman]

Hurrell just asked SBW.."Hey bro can I get into boxing?,,I need to buy some more taro for the family"

 

[TheDalek079]

ok so the hit may not have had much force, but it's the principle of the matter. you don't go attacking people with their backs turned. it's cowardly and our game is not for cowards. also, notice how rapira then grabs SBW so he's unable to defend himself from more attacks? scum

 

[innsaneink]

ok so the hit may not have had much force, but it's the principle of the matter. you don't go attacking people with their backs turned. it's cowardly and our game is not for cowards. also, notice how rapira then grabs SBW so he's unable to defend himself from more attacks? scum

soft

 

[POPEYE]

ok so the hit may not have had much force, but it's the principle of the matter. you don't go attacking people with their backs turned. it's cowardly and our game is not for cowards. also, notice how rapira then grabs SBW so he's unable to defend himself from more attacks? scum

Fmd . . . you were serious

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Nice thread Mr Weidler.

 

[Iafeta]

lol - backfire of the century champ.
I found it funny when $BW tried to throw one, and then he probably thought - blimey, this fight might not be rigged...what do I do? Walk away son, walk away.

 

[Tooooks]

ok so the hit may not have had much force, but it's the principle of the matter. you don't go attacking people with their backs turned. it's cowardly and our game is not for cowards. also, notice how rapira then grabs SBW so he's unable to defend himself from more attacks? scum

Can't tell if you're serious or not, so I'll assume you are (rather than just trolling). It was a bit of niggle, a bit of gamesmanship. He was trying to put Williams off his game. As for not willing to fight him face-to-face, Hurrell looked more than willing to have a go.

I doubt SBW is having a sook about it this morning, and neither should you.

 

[Bretto]

lol - backfire of the century champ.
I found it funny when $BW tried to throw one, and then he probably thought - blimey, this fight might not be rigged...what do I do? Walk away son, walk away.

If the opponent isn't 94 with a bad hip, Sonny is walking away every time.

In other news, I had 3 fried eggs with ham for breakfast this morning. Was awesome. Eggs were nice and runny, but not too runny, you know?

Great thread all round. Subscribed.

 

[adamkungl]

Did we get penalised for that incident?

 

[TheDalek079]

Did we get penalised for that incident?

indeed we did. apparently SBW getting brutally attacked from behind was actually Sonny Bill slowing down the restart.

 

[SaraSassypants]

Worked for Papalii on Gallen and no-one but Gallen cared. Is $BW a protected species now? I hope not.

 

[BuffaloRules]

The forward pass that wasn't called had a bigger impact on the game.

 

[adamkungl]

indeed we did. apparently SBW getting brutally attacked from behind was actually Sonny Bill slowing down the restart.

Pretty standard operating procedure for refs. Roosters player gets hit, penalise Roosters.