I wonder if you would be of the same opinion of the "great shot" if It was you on the end of it.

Ging dong will correct me if I'm wrong but I believe a legal team is seeking fiscal redress for a player allegedly assaulted by a selby player. There is the civil action. I understand that a criminal investigation is running in tandem with that.

The actions at Wath RUFC (my old club) saw both successful criminal and civil actions taken against players/club official involved.

Can't make further comment on the lad from Nevvy

Makes sense that part, but that will be for loss of earnings away from the game, depends if the sport is your primary income and you are registered and insured as a professional or if you have a main job, which is impacted by your sporting injury.

There are margins for a claim there on the basis of loss responsibility, all pretty ugly for the game if that happens at this level..... we will see I guess.

I'd be tempted to use the phrase "WHAMMO"

Dont come on here talking Rugby union rar rar boys , face facts RL is a tuff game players brake things, chase smashed one of your players in my view was fair shot, get over it! there ain't gunner be any criminal or civil action taken!!

Whether you approve of the court action or not, you'd have to admit that "Tangi vs Rangi" has a nice ring to it.

Would Ropati be insured if RL was his main income? Or would the club carry some sort of liability insurance for this? Accident in the workplace and all that.

I would have though 'all-cover' insurances were conditions of his visa?? Could be wrong though. I know when I looked to take up a nursing post in Canada many moons ago, I would have had to have all bases covered with Insurance for the duration of my visa.

Was that just for your liability though? Plus presumably you would have needed health insurance on account of the lack of NHS?

As stated, I needed all bases covered - an all circumstance policy(ies)!
Health, liability, inability to work, illness, etc! They simply would not consider granting temp/perm visas unless I had these in place first. I would have thought Tangi may well have such cover given his occupation puts him at risk of injury - costly too, but even most costly if you are not covered.

The RFL are doing their best to ruin this game , with superleague being a private members club etc . Bringing civil action into the fray will finish the game as a contest.

Whatever you think of Chases tackle , how many more mistimed or otherwise tackles do we see week in week out, none done with the intention severely injure the player. Will every tackler be hauled before the courts.

Do we really want this game to go tig and pass (or mostly kick) like union.

Time to let the authorities deal with it and stop using it to score brownie points, especially if its nowt to do with your team ........................................... capiche polecats ? Its a cas , fev thing so off you go back to your bucket collections

To be honest (at the risk of interfering in a "cas, fev thing" - I'm not a "polecat" though) I wouldn't generally advocate legal proceedings outside the game's disciplinary, but you can't close the door on it altogether. There have to be limits to what you accept as "part of the game" and you can't just do whatever you want and be immune to prosecution because you did it on a rugby field.

I would personally feel that Chase's tackle remains within the confines of things the game should deal with. I may, of course, feel differently if it was my jaw and my income that was affected.