See ya Slater

[Sphagnum]

Has toddy done a press conference about this yet? It's one of the golden boys.

 

[Last Week]

I didn’t want Hayne suspended and he was guilty as f**k for kneeing the tryscorer in the 2009 prelim.

Except Hayne was charged and found guilty. He took an early plea to play in the GF.

 

[Valheru]

Oh well evens it up after Friends attempted spear tackle

On the other hand Great to see the best players will be playing the GF

Friend was punished for his incident.

Billy was not.

 

[myrrh ken]

How did he get off? What did he do to make it not a shoulder charge?

He thought about grabbing feki with both hands.

 

[Jordan]

Not when theki is seriously injured or dies it isn't.

Feki was never at any risk of dying in that tackle. The only time when there was ever a problem with the shoulder charge when it was legal was when the player was hit high.

Rugby league is a contact sport. There will always be risks. The NRL mitigating these risks has resulted it in becoming a lesser product.

If we keep going in this direction we should just be done with it and make it a professional Oztag comp.

 

[BWNB]

So why was it a penalty on the night?

 

[Johns Magic]

Am I coming 11th right now?

Such fear about what will happen to you now that Slater got off.

Have some nuts and want to play the opposition at full-strength.

 

[myrrh ken]

So why was it a penalty on the night?

And why wasnt it a penalty try

 

[Sphagnum]

So why was it a penalty on the night?

Probably just trying to even up the penalty count.

 

[ram raid]

Commercial pressure.

The thing is now, since the charge could not be downgraded and he was found not guilty, it means that tackle that Slater did is not a shoulder charge, by definition. It can not be charged or even penalised anymore. Slater's tackle is now legal and any other player can use it, no matter how heavy the impact is.

Yeah I guess that's the precedent now. Having some part of your other arm doing something in the tackle. They will probably change the rules in the off-season anyway.

 

[Smack]

If it was Ryles, he would've been given the death penalty

 

[Maroon4life]

Roosters fans have their hands in the air due to the dangerous nature of the tackle, meanwhile Napa just has a unique way of tackling.

 

[Valheru]

So why was it a penalty on the night?

Apparently the refs got it wrong. They is the only conclusion given the ruling.

 

[Fire]

Shoulder charge every day of the week. 200 points for a grade 1

See ya dude. You've been a great fullback but your time is up

I will not watch the grand final if he plays

 

[Knight76]

Why was he charged?

So the NRL can look like they are taking a tough stance, but then buckle later, same thing with the Broncos please explain letter, same as the bulldogs fine for mad monday.

The only clubs the NRL is heavy on, are the poor defenceless clubs they have a hand in as they are refrained from telling the NRL to get farked.

 

[myrrh ken]

Yep. How long should we sit here so that people dont think this is a farce?

 

[lazza]

He thought about grabbing feki with both hands.

From nrl.com
Slater's lawyer Nick Ghabar successfully argued that the first point of contact in Slater's tackle was with his pec, not his shoulder, and that Feki's angled run left Slater with no option but to make the try-saving tackle in the way he did.

First point with his pec? Are we watching the same footage?

 

[Saxon]

So why was it a penalty on the night?

Because the refs have to react in an instance to what they think they see.

How many decisions have they made this year which (in the cold hard light of replay) are wrong?

Due process followed. Correct result.

 

[Valheru]

Roosters fans have their hands in the air due to the dangerous nature of the tackle, meanwhile Napa just has a unique way of tackling.

No we don't.

We just want the rules enforced and not bent or completely ignored because of who the player is. Any one of our players would have lost their case tonight.

 

[Reflector]

The NRL is an entertainment business, let's remember that.

Yet for an entertainment business, they're doing a terrible job. They're sacrificing the integrity of the brand for cheap ratings grabs. A competition that prided itself on being fair, on parity, is whoring itself out for the sake of the big name players and the teams that have the most big name players in them.

They are completely tone-deaf to the majority of the people who financially invest in their business (the fans), and then wonder why these same people are becoming increasingly indifferent to supporting the NRL, if they haven't walked away altogether...unbelievable.