I think that was the plan to a certain extent by the Cowboys today. Farah had a perception of not being physical and if they put it on him he might go into his shell. What followed showed that Farah is tougher then everyone thought and the plan backfired big time.The only problem with saying that this kind of activity is "OK" is that sooner or later, a coach will give a player the instruction to "engage" a team's chief playmaker until he's knocked senseless. And because there's a precedent of minimal action - what's going to happen? A benchie gets 10 minutes, and a side's General sits down (or gets carried off) along with him.
The coach's job is to stretch every rule to their team's possible advantage, so sending out a guy who can handle himself - against a Lockyer, Thurston, Soward will make more sense if there are minimal consequences. Especially come Semi-final time.
in all honesty I don't think it would have been preconceived, Watts is probably that last person you want throwing punches to try and put a player off. Heat of the moment stuff, which happens time to time, thank chr!st it's not the AFL and both players being reported and then facing lengthy stints on the sideline over a blue on the field.
Haha Watts knocked Farah down when Farah wasn't ready for it. When it was obvious there was a fight going on Farah punched the bejeesus out of him.
Not tough enough for Origin...
“The first scrum, he hit me, I don't know why, I didn't do anything to him, it was a bit of a king hit,” Farah said.
“The refs did nothing about it. I wanted a bit of a square up.
“The second scrum, the ref told me to keep it short and sweet and it was.”
Watts, who set up the Cowboys' opening try, said he recalled being struck by an elbow.
“I'm not sure if it was Robbie, but it came towards me and I just reacted,” Watts said.
Asked what happened at the second scrum, Watts replied: “I don't know if it was Robbie or not because there was a fair few of them hitting me.”
LOL Watts you lying grub. Only one person hit you in that second scrum and he belted the sh*t out of you! :lol:
f#$king please, Farrah elbowed him in the face in the 1st scrum and was well and truly facing Watts when he threw them, and accordingly went down like a sack of $hit.
LOL Watts you lying grub. Only one person hit you in that second scrum and he belted the sh*t out of you! :lol:
At least that should put the end to the Farah is "soft" and a "pretty boy" and "not tough enough" garbage.
hahahaha Robbie's punches have the power of 7 men!
i am impressed beave knows what happened when Watts himself didn't. lololol