What is our beloved game turning into?

[avsterooster]

Fellow forum members,

I am writing as a very frustrated fan of Rugby League after the first weekend of football.
I am getting so fed up with the pathetic womens game our beloved league is becoming, and unfortunately alot of you posters are to blame for my frustration...

I cant believe the amount of you that winge over heavy tackles and hits its just becoming pathetic. THIS IS RUGBY LEAGUE PEOPLE... the game of MEN, the game of WARRIORS.
I am only 22 so i havent seen action from yrs past, but from what i know in the earlier days players played with broken jaws, arms and all sorts of other injuries and didnt complain one bit!

Some of you fans out there today are no offense the biggest cry babies i have ever met and are an embarressment to league fans. You need to take a good hard look at yourself and work out if you should continue supporting league and weather you are man enough.

I think the fans influence is having a terrible affect on the league and officials are acting differently as well as the video ref and the players.

I am a rooster fan i will say that straight out, but more importantly i am a league fan... riley brown on friday night did something that happens 100 times a year. He did nothing illegal and nothing wrong and the amount of winging that has come out of it is disgraceful. If it was paulson the winger, no one would of said 2 things about it. Wing left his back open and paid the consequences.

Another incident i saw on saturday night, was manly denied a try because of a collision between glenn stuart and greg bird, dead set it was the worst video ref decision in the history... BUT WHY IS IT HAPPENING? BECAUSE OF THE FANS THAT ARE CONSTANTLY WINGING ABOUT HIGH SHOTS, CHEAP SHOTS and any other type of shot. Little slaps around the ball and head are getting blown up for penalties, players are lying down. its a joke

IT NEEDS TO STOP,
our league is slowly becoming a girl sport, with the referees and officials continuing the trend. Please remember what our great sport was once about and what hopefully is still about. Enjoy it for the highs and the lows, but accept your teams fate win lose or draw.

 

[yobbo84]

If anyone on here can offer just one other similar incident to that of Riley Brown's, I will offer my apologies. Until then in my eyes he's a cat who will forever have a blotch on his otherwise unimpressive career.

 

[Shorty]

Shut the f**k up.

 

[Lego_Man]

Umm yobbo, it happens many times in a season. It only got press this time because it was round 1, it was a star player, and it caused a freak injury.

 

[Y2Eel]

If anyone on here can offer just one other similar incident to that of Riley Brown's, I will offer my apologies. Until then in my eyes he's a cat who will forever have a blotch on his otherwise unimpressive career.

What are your thought on what Gidley did to the canberra player then? it was legal same as browns but still was a cheap shot...

 

[Stagger eel]

honestly, were Manly fans whinging this bad when Stewart was ko'd in last years gf???

 

[Pass the Ball]

honestly, were Manly fans whinging this bad when Stewart was ko'd in last years gf???

No - but we are talking about Souths here.....

 

[Jobdog]

What are your thought on what Gidley did to the canberra player then? it was legal same as browns but still was a cheap shot...

So he's meant to allow the Canberra player to lie on the ground and just calmly put a hand on him? :crazy:

 

[yobbo84]

What are your thought on what Gidley did to the canberra player then? it was legal same as browns but still was a cheap shot...

Please.

 

[Dave Q]

If anyone on here can offer just one other similar incident to that of Riley Brown's, I will offer my apologies. Until then in my eyes he's a cat who will forever have a blotch on his otherwise unimpressive career.

Ditto.

 

[roosterman57]

Rabbitoh fans. Did use lose because of that tackle on wing? Stop trying to take the spotlght off the fact that ur biggest rivals beat u convincingly. sh*t happens.

 

[yobbo84]

Rabbitoh fans. Did use lose because of that tackle on wing? Stop trying to take the spotlght off the fact that ur biggest rivals beat u convincingly. sh*t happens.

Did I say Souths lost because of that tackle?

 

[Stagger eel]

No - but we are talking about Souths here.....

out of interest I decided to chack the sharks forum just to see how they felt about the Ross tackle and they seem to be sweet about it, albeit they did win, however Perry really did launch into him kamikazi style...

 

[Inferno]

If anyone on here can offer just one other similar incident to that of Riley Brown's, I will offer my apologies. Until then in my eyes he's a cat who will forever have a blotch on his otherwise unimpressive career.

There was a similar incident a couple of years ago with Wiki almost killing someone after steaming in and smashing some poor chap that was already being held up by 2 other warriors players. Can't recall who it was against though, I'm thinking Penrith?

 

[Y2Eel]

Please.

so you have no thoughts??

Guy laying on ground basically tackled and he's dived on you don't think its as bad if not worse??

 

[Y2Eel]

So he's meant to allow the Canberra player to lie on the ground and just calmly put a hand on him? :crazy:

Its a cheap shot but its legal i have no complaints...

 

[Garts]

out of interest I decided to chack the sharks forum just to see how they felt about the Ross tackle and they seem to be sweet about it, albeit they did win, however Perry really did launch into him kamikazi style...

That tackle was fine, Perry took him front on and tried to smash him fairly, albeit he headbutted (by accident) him in the process. Brown's was a cheap shot, hardly tough however time to move on as it was not illegal.

 

[roosterman57]

Did I say Souths lost because of that tackle?

I didnt say u said that. But it keeps getting brought up to take away the loss. I mean look at Dave Q's signature...

NO EXCUSES ROOSTERS "IT WAS A DOG ACT"
100 years of bringing the game into disrepute."

sorry but thats just sadddd. puts it in his name followed by 100 years of bringing the game into disrepute LOL!!! haha pleaseeeee. take a loss Dave mate

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

You may not like the way the game is going, but all the parents out there who want their child to play league but dont want them to get bashed around and injured, they love it and I for one am supportive of the changes made to League.

Im sick of mentioning AFL but, AFL seem to get along with mothers. AFL boast to be child friendly and thats all protective parents hear. It might seem "pussy" I know, but its for the good of the game.

Plus, not only is it good for children, but if the game was the way it was 30 - 50 years ago, the League would need their own court to handle all the law suits.

As for the Craig Wing incident which is where all this is coming from. Id like to see the players involved to get a week suspension because what they did might just might have detered a parent or small child from wanting to play league for fear of injury.

 

[Shorty]

so you have no thoughts??

Guy laying on ground basically tackled and he's dived on you don't think its as bad if not worse??

I don't understand why you're attempting to compare these?
Wing was being held by two guys and Riley went deliberately at full pelt with intentions.

Gidley,from what I've seen of it,would not have been able to slow down anyway but there was nobody guarding the Canberra player.
To please the ref he would have had to somehow hook his feet into the ground and merely touch him.