OFFICIAL Bryce Gibbs [Discussion]

[mikey]

If that was worth 3 weeks we might as well throw pillows at the opposition. There was absolutley nothing in it.

 

[alexaki]

Yep what a joke….any other team apart from the Tigers he would've gotten a downgrade...I'm sick and tired of things going against us....I wish the Tigers were owned by News Limited... :exclamation:

 

[Geo]

What a load of crap….Who's gunna give away the penalties now.....Over to you Daine

 

[senexx]

Wests Tigers prop Bryce Gibbs has been suspended for three matches after failing to have a dangerous contact charge downgraded at the NRL judiciary on Wednesday night.

Gibbs will miss the final two matches of the minor premiership and the first week of finals should the 10th-placed Tigers make the top eight.

He was handed a grade two charge by the NRL match review committee for dropping his knees into the back of Parramatta winger Luke Burt during the Eels' 26-18 victory over the Tigers at Sydney Football Stadium last Friday night.

Had the Tigers been successful in having the charge downgraded, Gibbs would have been free to play Gold Coast in Robina on Saturday night.

Tigers chief executive Stephen Humphreys says Gibbs' suspension may prove costly in terms of the club's chance of making the finals.

"In the context of our season we paid a very big price for the eight-point try and add into that a three-game suspension for Bryce for what was accepted as accidental contact," he said.

"It's a tough one for us."

The Tigers are one point outside the top eight and need to win their remaining fixtures if they are to have any chance of qualifying for their first finals series since winning the 2005 premiership.

 

[Gobbs]

A dead set disgrace. The NRL judiciary is soft. A bunch of powder puffs. How does one Justin Poore get off scott free whilst blatantly putting Elford in a compromising position well above the horizontal and walks away with a clean slate? Whilst a knee in the butt cheek at bet receives 3 weeks on the sideline. Where is the bloody consistency? Forget the charge and the suspension. The consistency or lack there of is what infuriates me. Injuries, a joke of a suspension, all adds to the mountain of adversity. Let's conquer it and throw it back in their faces! Carn' Wests!! Time to lift Tigers…..LIFT!!!

 

[farahfan]

the precedent was set and Gibbs should have realised that he must have some variation of jonathon thurston as his name and aim for the head when trying to stop a tackle feet first

no less and of course the charge is gonna stick

 

[RatedRKO]

Yep what a joke….**any other team apart from the Tigers he would've gotten a downgrade**...I'm sick and tired of things going against us....I wish the Tigers were owned by News Limited... :exclamation:

Agreed. It's getting ridiculous.

 

[shifty]

It almost feels as if people dont want us in the finals…

 

[Suzie-Q]

"Me big, me strong, must stop one with ball….but how"?!?

Haha, reminded me of John Cena during his rapping gimmick, to paraphrase

"Me Bryce Gibbs, here comes the pain
God build me strong.. forget to give me brain"

:laughing: :laughing: Pity it didn't work tho - still don't understand how hitting Burt's BUM is kneeing in the BACK??? 😕

 

[MGB]

You have got to be kidding me.


How about some bloody consistency, fair dinkum plankton would give some of these guys a run in an IQ test.

 

[Golden]

biggest joke ever… and the overrated Thurston gets let off for kicking a player in the head.. oh wait a minutes his name is Thurston and loved by everyone

 

[RatedRKO]

OK, so, as i understand it, these are allowed:

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[](http://img230.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=95403_695088-johnathan-thurston_122_165lo.jpg)
[](http://img24.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=95404_431229-jamie-soward-pic-courtesy-channel-9_122_100lo.jpg)
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But this is not:
[](http://img23.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=95402_986186-dtstory-bryce-gibbs_122_411lo.jpg)

:angry: :deadhorse:

 

[MGB]

Yep..that's it in a nutshell. It takes an idiot to understand an idiotic decision.

 

[Digeze]

Yer, i can't understand how the Thurston kick to the face was worth nothing but Gibbs is worth 3 weeks??? Even if i was a Cowboys supporter i'd be left scratching my head wondering how we got out of that one.

 

[Ian_AKA_Tiger_Ted]

Pity it didn't work tho - still don't understand how hitting Burt's BUM is kneeing in the BACK??? 😕
Well that proves it,they dont know the difference between a rump steak & a kidney pie . :laughing:

 

[wicked_j]

anyone with two working eyes can see that gibbs was trying to jump over burt. he mistimed his jump, add that to him not being a little guy and burt being off the ground at the time, accidental contact

stupid thurston purposely kicking someone is apparently legal though

 

[T91]

Anyone with two working eyes can see that gibbs was trying to jump over burt.

:laughing:x100 That's quite possibly the funniest comment on this forum so far. Worst mistimed jump I have ever seen.

 

[Torbizlo]

the nrl judiciary is an absolute joke. next time gibbs should have lashed out with his foot instead and attemped to kick burts head off his shoulders n he would have got off for sure since soward and thursy did.

 

[IronTiger]

And the silence reagrding the incident was defining on Nrl on Fox last night. The agenda is clear to see if it was anyone else or a "superstar" player they would have been blowing up over it or mentioned it to some extent but not even a coment from any of the panelists.

NRL/Fox stitch up

 

[Gary_Bakerloo]

It almost feels as if people dont want us in the finals…

100% correct. We have served our purpose for the NRL. Started a great run, got in contention for the finals (along with Parra) and this created a tv ratings bonanza for last Friday night. However, we won the comp in 2005, so we have to wait a few more years till it is our turn. Teams like Parra, St. George, Gold Coast (ie: any team that is yet to win the NRL) need to win the comp before we can again.