OT: Hastings broken leg. Carrigan direct referral to the KC

[Frenzy.]

Would Carrigan have copped a direct referral if Hastings leg wasn't broken?

Discuss

 

[shaggs]

100% no.

The MRC are reactive and suspend based on injury.

The hip drop classification is a grey area and there has been heaps charges that were a rugby league tackle last season. This year they have charged some I didn’t agree.

It needs to be policed like the canon ball.

if the player is stationary with other tacklers then they should be policed hard. Others in the run of play aren’t meditated.

Cardigans looked real bad

 

[Eion]

I’ve no problem with injury being a factor. No different to the legal system.

 

[Cheese sandwich]

Was probably the most blatant one I've seen since it became a thing. Was this actual "hip drop" tackle always around before it started getting attention?

 

[PJ]

I’ve no problem with injury being a factor. No different to the legal system.

I do when it tips a tackle that happens every match into a suspension.

Nikoras tackle was nothing illegal, just bad luck, but he copped 2 weeks.

 

[Ozzi_78]

I blame the Melbourne Storm.

 

[Eion]

I do when it tips a tackle that happens every match into a suspension.

Nikoras tackle was nothing illegal, just bad luck, but he copped 2 weeks.

But the key trigger is still illegal play. Nikoras was debatable. If it’s deemed that it was just bad luck it’s still no suspension regardless of the injury. That should have been the case with Dale

 

[Frenzy.]

I’ve no problem with injury being a factor. No different to the legal system.

That's an interesting point but does the legal system have fixed penalties or rather do they have minimum penalties with scope to increase punition? Does the LS have graded charges i.e. careless, reckless, dangerous, phuquewit?

I don't know, that's why I'm asking

 

[Crippler]

Was probably the most blatant one I've seen since it became a thing. Was this actual "hip drop" tackle always around before it started getting attention?

I remember Ben Smith ended Taniela Tuaiakis career in 2009 with a hip drop tackle. At time though noone questioned these.

 

[Eion]

That's an interesting point but does the legal system have fixed penalties or rather do they have minimum penalties with scope to increase punition? Does the LS have graded charges i.e. careless, reckless, dangerous, phuquewit?

I don't know, that's why I'm asking

They have minimum sentencing, but take a Dangerous Driving charge vs Dangerous Driving Causing Death as an extreme. The more severe injury you cause the tougher the punishment you can expect.

 

[Eion]

Or even a simple one punch.

Can be the same punch in the same circumstances. Vastly different outcomes for the offender depending on the injury to the victim

 

[Frenzy.]

I do when it tips a tackle that happens every match into a suspension.

Nikoras tackle was nothing illegal, just bad luck, but he copped 2 weeks.

It was "illegal" under the rules though, just not intentional. I don't think Carrigan's is intentional either yet he goes straight to the KC. Was the player in Nikora's incident damaged? I don't even think Burgess's HHT on Ronnie was intentional to be honest.

This is why the NRL shits me. Penalise the accidental but turn a blind eye to the grubby shit that IS intentional but does little or no damage.

Don't the rules say you can't attack the head of a player? What JWH does often and most recently on Fulton is an attack on the head. Isn't it? Yet, the NRL only seems to focus on HHTs and now accidental head clashes. PLayers can do what they want to another snorkels head in the guise of a tackle. JWH wasn't even making a tackle, he had the ball

 

[Frenzy.]

I remember Ben Smith ended Taniela Tuaiakis career in 2009 with a hip drop tackle. At time though noone questioned these.

You have an ironic name for this thread LOL

 

[Dragon Slayer]

Would Carrigan have copped a direct referral if Hastings leg wasn't broken?

Discuss

I think you know the answer to that question Frenzy.

The judiciary is a PR exercise.

Having said that.

If Nikora got two weeks for something he was hardly in control of and was virtually swung onto the runners leg then Carrigan is looking at getting the electric chair for breaking Hastings leg.

 

[Ozzi_78]

Cunova injury for Jacko. He scares the shit out of me so it’s good for sharks week after nExt

 

[Dragon Slayer]

I guess they are not going to have those discussions about how do we fit Hastings, Doueihi and Brooks into two halves positions anymore this season….

 

[shaggs]

Hastings out for the year, plus brooks unlikely to be fit for a few weeks.

Be madden and douehi in the halves

 

[Frenzy.]

Hastings out for the year, plus brooks unlikely to be fit for a few weeks.

Be madden and douehi in the halves

Which worked pretty well last night

Who saw TTG walking the fence signing autographs after the game? Still a flog

 

[Inferno]

Nope.

Gus made the point on his podcast this week, you think if Crichton's ear hadn't be cut in half that Dale would have had a date with the judiciary? Not a chance.

 

[shaggs]

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Which worked pretty well last night

Who saw TTG walking the fence signing autographs after the game? Still a flog

I like Hastings as a footballer. He is a way bigger loss than brooks.
madden needs time on the field