I have heard the same rumour but from an ex-Tiger now at Fev in a managerial role (work that out). Don't know if its right or a load of bull.

Another rumour doing the rounds (and this could be right) is licencing on SL will be abolished, we stay with the current 14 clubs for 2013 and at the end of the 2014 season the bottom two will go down and not be replaced. Hope its wrong - we will see.

Was a dreadful tackle, sort of can see what he was pretending to do but I do expect a sanction - in the 3-5 games for the grading of the offence.

As for alledged cheap shots and blaming Fev players, it was a great and physical game lots of players skirted the boundaries at times, wish I had been a neutral becuase it represented everything that is a cup competition and why we have them.

We can't sanction people for the outcome of tackles I am afraid, so we can stop arguing about that. The offence is the offence and the sanction belongs looking at that, not the subsequent outcome. There have been arguments in all sports forever that a X player is injured by Y player and X is back from suspension miles before Y player recovers.

That angle is pretty damning - looks like clear and intentional use of the forearm, resulting in serious injury.

If he did that in the street, he'd be looking at a charge of ABH.

Wrong.

From Operatrional Rules Section E

[iIn determining the appropriate sanction the Tribunal will take into account all relevant aggravating and mitigating factors (see below).

2.3 AGGRAVATING FACTORS
Previous Record
Violence
Retaliation
Injury caused
Incident not part of play
Other aggravating factors[/i

Its the worst challenge since Cassidy did Morley in 1998, absoulutely disgusting, the worst bit is that after he does it he looks back at the Fev player with a smug face. Absoulute coward of the highest order. 6 games minimum, if I remember correctly Cassidy got 8.

It did look a bit like one of Skerretts routine challenges , but they were ok werent they troll

Sorry Gronk, but if that's a shoulder charge then Rangi's shoulder is in a different place to mine. If first contact was with the shoulder it was certainly followed a fraction of a second later by something bonier (elbow or forearm is hard to tell) which was delivered with follow-through. Very poor IMO. Disciplinary will be looking at it I'm sure.

What I can't believe is that when we all see that either in slow mo or normal speed, it looks really bad, and when Chase looks down at him afterwards certainly doesn't help, but what puzzles me is, where was Thaler? How come it was not pulled up, was he not watching the game, in the case of Sam Moa, it looked bad, it was bad, and the officials saw it, Chase's was worse, and I can't believe not 1 official picked it up.

As much as i think Chase is a quality player that challenge was down right disgraceful, how anybody can even say he went in with his shoulder is beyond me, he clearly went looking to take his head off !!
And then just the way he looked down at him afterwards was like he was making sure he wasnt getting back up

utter crap just big hit, shoulder charge!! timed to perfection should have done it in the first ten not once the game had gone!!!

Ohh Cronk will like you...

Where is Cronk by the way, appears to have gone missing

he may have a thing called a job!! its what us grown up's do!! to pay tax to keep u on here all day!!