the key word in this post is "any"

No do you?

I was at the game.
Did you go?

What do you think the "footage" would prove that the still doesn't?

what happened next?

No, I am not trying to make a point. I am not suggesting there was anything in the tackle and I am not asking for a player to be removed from the game. I think its' incumbent on the knee jerker doing those things to be able to substantiate them. Can you?



No, I watched in on the telly. Did you go beserk when you saw the "incident" at the game then? If so, did you post anything about it on here? If you did do you have a link? Or did this just come to your attention when you saw that still?

Everything. Do you think the disciplinary panel looks at 1 still or a video of incidents that occurred?

You're not usually this stupid? Whats' up?

How are Hock and Paleaaesina these days?
And I think you'll find my sig says everything about my club today.

You and I have had many sensible discussions over the years, often with differing opinions, but that is not a problem.

When I saw that still photograph it really upset me as an RL fan. IMO there is no place for it in our game.

I don't mind a bit of biff, I quite enjoy it.

As I said if that photograph had been shown with a Leeds player (or Wigan player) as "victim" there would have been uproar.

As for trolling you should know it's not my style.

I am one who has defended the likes of Ryan Bailey in different sites.

We all have our ideas on how the game should be played but eye gouging is no no and for some to dismiss it as it's o.k. it was against an Aussie is frankly abhorrent.

Oh I would have Sinfield in at hooker next week.

I am not dismissing anything as OK. I am simply saying that still doesn't provide sufficient evidence to hang, draw and quarter Smith as you seem to have done.

If I saw video footage of any player, including a Leeds, player, deliberately gouging then I would support a sine die ban.

It has happened a leeds player.

gene eye gouged webb in the playoffs.

No one gave a f*ck.

I'm sure if there was anything untoward in that tackle the Aussies would have cited Smith by now.

If that picture was of a Leeds player I'd say that the still is completely out of context and seen as the player supposedly affected hasn't complained at all then it was more than likely nothing.

So its eye gouging is it , I wondered what the hell you were in a flap about.

As G1 has already succinctly pointed out to you, you are concluding from a still frame that Smith has his thumb in some random aussie's eye - a still frame where you can't actually see Smiths thumb, a still where we don't even know if Smiths hand is touching the random aussies face ( you do realise that photographs tend to be two dimensional don't you)

Add to that the fact that the "victim" did not complain at the time, he did not require treatment at the time, none of his team mates complained at the time, the referee did not complain at the time, the assistant referees did not complain at the time, the video referee who has access to all of the video footage did not complain at the time, the australian team management did not complain at the time and have not complained since having had access to the footage, none of the 24000 in the stadium complained at the time - and to cap it all YOU DID NOT COMPLAIN AT THE TIME.

You only decided what had happened when you saw a photograph 24 hours later, you jumped to a ridiculous conclusion and you decided to come trolling here, and now you can't even be @rsed to go seek out a video to look properly at the non-incident.

Are you sure you weren't trolling, because the rest of us are convinced you are.

Well seeing as you asked so nicely, I'll tell you exactly when it happened.
30 minutes and 13 seconds into the game, one second before Smith drops his elbow into Slaters face and gets penalised.

Is that a precise enough time for you to check?

Or would you like it down to the millisecond?