Quote: SmokeyTA "It honestly doesn’t matter what you think you can see on Sky plus. You don’t know if Hardaker was knocked out or not. Whereas a trained medical professional advised the club he was. For you then to start arguing semantics about one injury being more acceptable than the other is simply idiotic, god alone knows why you think that we should be sat here thinking “oh chase didn’t knock him out, he only gave him concussion, that’s not too bad”.
The fact that you then go on to say that the use of the word ‘knocked out’ was some pejorative linguistic voodoo by Mcdermott to try and influence the disciplinary committee is absolute nonsense. Especially when the actual, clinical diagnosis of Hardakers injury is the much more scary sounding mild traumatic brain injury.
Im not sure Disco’s diagnosis by tivo is going to be a long lasting clinical tool.
But now we have Hardaker, McDermott, and Terry O’connor in on this persecution of the poor little drunken violent criminal with a poor disciplinary record. Is there anyone else in on the conspiracy?'"
The fuzziest of fuzzy logic... well done! Daring to state what the playback shows doesn't constitute "a diagnosis by Tivo" nor have I ever claimed to be a medical professional. And I haven't suggested that Chase only gave Hardaker concussion.. I've suggested that a clash of heads left them BOTH with concussion. But hey suggest that I have, lace it with your trademark sarcasm and call it a reasoned response... Good for you. Your coach would be so proud.
As for drunken violent criminals.. I'm pretty sure Rangi didn't take to the field under the influence of alcohol, but either way your tendency for forgiveness seems highly selective given that there were definitely ex-cons on the park on Sunday wearing Leeds shirts.
But hey, the bottom line is we're not going to see eye to eye on this, so why not do as I suggested a few posts ago and call it a day?