how many weeks for Kony

[SilentOne]

I remember Ben Ross doing that against Steve Rapira and it literally ripped his ear off. He got nothing from what I recall.

 

[carcharias]

I saw greg bird get about 8 weeks for a knee ten times less bad.

 

[shaggs]

Did tupous face hit the knee or the hip??

 

[carcharias]

Knee

 

[carcharias]

 

[morley101]

0 weeks

Topou was coming in from the side... instead of using his left shoulder and putting his head behind Hurrell he put his head in front of Hurell.
If Topou was doing a front-on tackle then Hurrell would be looking at 6 weeks.

 

[carcharias]

The video is clear
Lifts knee straight into topous face.
At no time in the run up does his knee go anywhere near that high.
It actually looks deliberate.

he's gonski.

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

I heard Paul Gallen talking about it on the radio yesterday. He said that he had watched the video several times and that his view was that Tupou made contact with Hurrell's hip. I can't imagine that Gal would be saying this if the powers that be at the Sharks thought otherwise.

 

[God-King Dean]

Kneeing a bloke in the face is against the rules.
I'd go with it being an accident if it didn't look so deliberate.

So deliberate he wasn't looking at him.

 

[RWB]

The video is clear
Lifts knee straight into topous face.
At no time in the run up does his knee go anywhere near that high.
It actually looks deliberate.

he's gonski.

He's going for a hip bump. Has nothing to do with his running style but a bump off technique he's been using for years.

 

[carcharias]

Hip bump that didn't work probably isn't taken into account.
Knee straight into the face probably is.

 

[God-King Dean]

I still haven't seen an image where his knee connected.

 

[Captain Apollo]

He'll wind up with a charge and doing time. You can argue all you like but if that is how he runs "all the time" then it was only a matter of time that something like this happened. It may not have been deliberate but you could easily make a case for it being reckless.

Additionally, a hip bump?! Really? I didn't know the knee was part of the hip :crazy:

 

[Wheeled Warrior]

I saw greg bird get about 8 weeks for a knee ten times less bad.

But it's Bird what's your point?

 

[Blake]

Here's the hit along with Tupou's mashed up mouth and what looks like broken teeth.

Ouch

 

[DJShaksta]

Here's the hit along with Tupou's mashed up mouth and what looks like broken teeth.

Ouch

And people say he didn't deliberately raise his knee??
That footage is pretty clear that he does exactly that.

 

[lockyno1]

He's going for a hip bump. Has nothing to do with his running style but a bump off technique he's been using for years.

It is an awful technique and it should be punished purely on that alone. You can't run like that and NOT cause serious injuries.

 

[lockyno1]

If nothing else 6 weeks off should teach him to change his running style.

 

[God-King Dean]

I still think his face hit his leg.

But I think he should be suspended, but a small one, no more than 2 weeks. If one suspension discourages him from running like that in the future, then it's worth it.

The whole point of suspension is to discourage bad technique.

 

[betcats]

How long did Snowden get for breaking Thompsons jaw?