Since you are going to harrass me until I give you an answer, because you are little more than an old troll, I watched the game again on Good Friday. What's your point?

He wants to know did you get stopwatch out and time the hoffaman " assault "

Good, then you will have seen that Hoffmans tackle is no later than Gardners. Both players are committed to the tackle, so there was no problem.

I didn't call it an assault. I didn't use that word or imply it. I called it a late hit. And it was a shoulder charge to his shoulder. How do I know? I've just watched the first half again because I loved our play while Gary Wheeler was on the pitch. We looked so good. And then that git Hoffman took him out.

And no, Rogues, the two were not comparable. When a player is pressurising a kicker he is not supposed to tackle the kicker but intercept the ball or distract the kicker. He shouldn't have been touching Wheeler, never mind taking him out so late that he had chance to look up.

Priceless!
Criticism of Hoffman from fans who excused Hooper for years when he did it three or four times a game, season after season.

Ah, so that makes Hoffman's dirty hit ok then, yes?

For gods sake give it up! He was committed to the tackle and was no intent. It happens every week by saints players and every other player in all levels of rugby.

The fact he was hurt is unfortunate but that's rugby. Also the fact we lost don't help.

If we'd won and and wheeler hadn't have got hurt you'd not even mention that tackle.

Exactly - people are judging the incident on the injury and not the actual fact that there is a millisecond between Wheeler commencing the kick and Hoffman jumping.

You give it up as well. Are you Jason Hooper by any chance?

The facts are that they've changed the interpretations of this rule so as pointed out by Royce after the game, it was a mistake by the officials to not sin bin Hoffman and give a penalty to Saints. I think he'll get one of those famous letters off the RFL this coming week.

only a letter ? ?.

But for gods sake why can't she just let it go? The officials at the game didn't think anything of it, the offical in the crowd didn't either.

Let's see if the RFL think he's got a case to answer.

Translation: why can't she agree with me?

Let it go Pete! Why can't you let it go?

I haven't posted for months , just read the forums, but having read several of your posts since the Wigan match I just had to say.......

Please put a sock in it and stop spouting utter tripe with your 'I know what I'm talking about..... just toughen up.... it's a man's game..... I 'm always right and if you don't agree with me you must be wrong' overbearing tone.

God your posts are irritating and 100% confrontational.

Rules are rules, sometimes it would be nice if for the most part, they were enforced as they should be by the officials. Especially when they directly influence the result of a game.

Queue another overbearing, high and mighty response cos I've played the game for 20 years etc, etc, etc