The Wash Up for the Blues

[NT_Tiger]

Lol get real
The tackle was bad but I've seen far worse. Gallen spear on Myles the other year topped it for starters…accidents happen.

As for parents LOL....Rugby League isn't for everyone. It's an elite full contact sport. If it looks too scary then by all means make your kids play sokkah with the rest of the puncey little fairies. Leave league for the hard kids.[/quote

One of the more idiotic posts written of late.

Are you guys for real,
it was a classic spear tackle , and deserves a lot more than he'll probably get, And if you think parents don't take notice of rubbish like that , I suggest you think again.
I've been involved in League in playing, coaching both juniors and seniors, and Rep teams,, my kids and grand kids both have played ( one at a high level) and the g/kids still do. I don't really think any of us were ever scared to play, and when I did play , those sort of tackles were a lot more commonplace than they are now,

Luckily people , more concerned for player safety than you guys are, have gone a long way to getting it out of our game, not far enough it seems
While you may sit back and think that it's tough to spear someone into the ground head first,
Just remember some of the previous instances of players being injured in those sort of tackles,
You like to have a laugh at parents who care about what happens to their kids if rules are ignored. , that says more about you than those parents.
League is a hard game and yes it's full contact , and most of us wouldn't want it any other way.
But whether it was Thaiday last night, or Gallen on a different occasion, it's a send off offence.
I didn't know that there was still people around , who judged Kids " as punsey little fairies"
If they wanted to play a different sport than the one your kids do.

Geez there's some short memories here.

Written like a true blue sook. Well done nanny.

Oppositions love giving it to Tedesco. With qlds obvious predeliction for dangerous play in the attempt to physically damage skilful players, let's hope Tedesco never gets selected for this farce of a competition.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

When are fellow team mates going to stick up for their mates when someone is dropped on their head. After the SOO the other night every Blues player should have refused to shake Sam Thaiday's hand or speak to him. That is if they are serious about each other's welfare and having a level playing field.

 

[goldcoast_tiger]

In a way Nelson, you've answered your own question.

Yes, they've recognised theres a problem.
They've made the conduct illegal.
But …...its still happening.
And the leagues penalties are not stopping them.

Spear tackling, Head highs, (as weve seen also this year) are happening quite often, some worse than others
One or two weeks suspension, is nothing. compared to the action.
The fact that the nrl has recognised the danger , and yet their penalties are so lenient,
may be the very thing that would damage them in a lawsuit.

Also the fact that if a player punches another player , no matter how hard , he will be sent off for 10 minutes. and a penalty given. HIS TEAM Loses a player.
Compare that with what happened on Wed Night.
NO time on the sideline
A penalty and a visit to the judiciary for a couple of weeks off ...... MAYBE,

Not as serious as a punch??????????????
There's a few people who would Qoestion that.

After seeing the slaps on the fingers that this judiciary hands out for Head High tackles, nothing would surprise me.
Big penalties on players almost eradicated that stuff from he game, some years back,
but thats all slipped these days, as the League now , seems only worried that the clubs ( therefore the TV channels , the real controller of the game ) may lose a player during the game
It probably will take someone suing before the league before they will take proper action on players safety.

I don't think you can really compare throwing a punch with a dangerous tackle. One of them is unambiguously a deliberate act and the other may be anything from a complete accident to a deliberate act. When there's a scale like that you have to leave discretion in the match officials. Where dangerous tackles are deliberate they should obviously be a send off, but where they are accidental do you really think it's a send off offence?

A lot of what you are complaining about is the response of the judiciary - but that is not the NRL. It is a disciplinary body they have set up to be independent of the NRL. That is standard in sporting organisations around the world. The judiciary is a quasi judicial body that has to be chaired by a current or former Judge (District Court or above). I struggle to see how anybody is going to get up in a negligence claim against the NRL when they have that structure in place.

The reason the NFL were exposed and liable in the concussion case was because it was a risk they knew about but failed to educate the players about at all (and it was not an obvious risk that should have been apparent to the players). That was a classic breach of a duty of care and that's why it cost the NFL a bucketload.

Educating someone about a danger that you know is there , is not always sufficient to exonerate someone from blame, duty of care is just that( duty of care)
the duty is for someone to remove or make the chances of that action less likely to happen .
That's not done by treating players who create the danger, with kid gloves. The only way it can really be lessened is by sending players off and giving them suspensions that fit the danger that they create.
As I said before . The onus is on the tackled player to not put the player in that position.
We've probably done it to death. And the league won't get serious until someone else is injured, and probably not even then, Cheers