See ya Slater

[alexwilliams_66692007]

https://www.triplem.com.au/sport/nr...-grand-final-after-receiving-grade-one-charge

Jake Friend free to play with a early guilty plea

 

[footy75]

lol..slater hit him in the side.. side on didn't go near his head saved a try... well played... can't miss a grand final for that.

 

[moffla]

Have kept quiet on this on fear that I might be biased, but far out the more you watch it the more it looks like a good hit. I do understand rules are rules, but I wish it were a case by case basis because that shouldn’t warrant missing a Grand final

 

[King hit]

Laughing at stupid Meninga going on about how they should give exception to Slater whilst condoning illegal play. Rules are rules mate and nobody is above them.

 

[STORM.99/07]

Ennis somehow hot away with one before his GF/last game.
Even he said he didn’t know how he wasn’t charged.

...don’t get too excited thought Storm fans.
His was about a 4 compared to Slaters 9 .

That was when he targeted Blake Green and anus got off .

 

[STORM.99/07]

lol..slater hit him in the side.. side on didn't go near his head saved a try... well played... can't miss a grand final for that.

didn`t even knock him off his feet.

 

[mave]

We have had other players in the past suspended for "bracing" with the shoulder, have we not ?

How the fk could Billy boy get off when he literally "charged" with the shoulder.

 

[carcharias]

It’s the potential damage

That’s why it’s banned
Shoulder to the head is as lethal as a knee or elbow.

Just because he didn’t connect doesn’t mean it wasn’t a blatant shoulder charge.

 

[Roosters rule]

I could easily be biased and demand his suspension but I won't.
It was a good side on hit nothing more. Yes I have seen lighter contact suspended but that doesn't make it right. Common-sense should apply to the shoulder charge rule. If a players head or neck is hit or the impact elsewhere puts them danger. Suspend them. If they are not illegally hit in the head or neck and the player is ok get on with the match.
He shouldn't miss a week in my opinion.
Waqa Blake did one earlier in the year and he didn't get penalised.

 

[t-ba]

Laughing at stupid Meninga going on about how they should give exception to Slater whilst condoning illegal play. Rules are rules mate and nobody is above them.

Meninga was a Super League booster. Says it all.

 

[King hit]

Meninga was a Super League booster. Says it all.

“what has Rugby League ever done for me”

 

[Joeboy]

I could easily be biased and demand his suspension but I won't.
It was a good side on hit nothing more. Yes I have seen lighter contact suspended but that doesn't make it right. Common-sense should apply to the shoulder charge rule. If a players head or neck is hit or the impact elsewhere puts them danger. Suspend them. If they are not illegally hit in the head or neck and the player is ok get on with the match.
He shouldn't miss a week in my opinion.
Waqa Blake did one earlier in the year and he didn't get penalised.

But that's the problem, common sense has not been applied for the myriad other players charged/suspended since the rule came in.

The rule just needs to be changed to dangerous contact, shoulder charges are fine unless you make dangerous contact. This puts the onus on the players to calculate the risk in the tackle they deem necessary for the situation.

I'm all in favour of try saving shoulder charges been legal if you don't hit the head, but in that case all shoulder charges need to be legal if you don't hit the head.

The wording and application of the rule in the past is the issue for me, not the action

 

[JamesRustle]

2 year ago it was a great tackle, and within the rules.

On Friday night it was a great tackle, but outside the rules.

... Suspend him.

 

[Todd Hoffman]

I don't have a problem with it. He shouldn't be suspended.

 

[carcharias]

I could easily be biased and demand his suspension but I won't.
It was a good side on hit nothing more. Yes I have seen lighter contact suspended but that doesn't make it right. Common-sense should apply to the shoulder charge rule. If a players head or neck is hit or the impact elsewhere puts them danger. Suspend them. If they are not illegally hit in the head or neck and the player is ok get on with the match.
He shouldn't miss a week in my opinion.
Waqa Blake did one earlier in the year and he didn't get penalised.

Common sense is not a rule.

 

[twesty]

No way he should miss a GF for that. He barely knocked him off balance. Surely the outcome of the hit needs to be taken into account. If you swing a punch at someone do you get suspended if you miss them?

 

[umina panther]

The rule needs to go. The game is worse off for losing the shoulder charge but rules are rules and the merkin should miss the GF

 

[Cockosh]

I personally don’t like seeing players miss games due to suspension and would prefer to beat a full strength storm team.
In saying that if he is let off the nrl loses whatever little credibility it has left. It is a shoulder charge. Plain and simple. Whatever good he has done for the game is irrelevant. Whatever people’s opinions, they are also irrelevant. If he gets off it just shows again that the nrl arbitrarily applies rules depending on their agenda or bias.

 

[Valheru]

The whole "he shouldn't miss a GF for that" holds zero weight.

Either it is a suspension or it isn't and the game to be missed doesn't (or shouldn't) make a difference.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

All of a sudden roosters fans want him suspended......