At the end of the day, no player was badly injured it should have been a penalty but it wasn't and made f all difference. I think we should be debating the Jeffries sin binning more!

It was a penalty.

So everytime the legs go above the head you think it's a penalty?

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ok

Ben deliberately took Briscoe out of play so that the defense could get back in line

professional foul and should be penalised more often, wished they had the balls more often to do this

So from now on I should expect every tackle that causes a players legs to raise above the head to be penalised? Even if the tackler didn't touch them?

I'm as clueless as our defence tonight. Its been a long day, emotional rollercoaster etc

Yeah, if you want players to be protected from neck injuries.

You could quite easily pick someone up in a wwe style piledriver without touching their legs and they'd go above the horizontal. It would just be momentum though so its fine.

Mate, you're starting to talk utter bollox now, so I'll leave it there.

I think BJ thought like i did that the tackle wasn't complete as the ball carrying arm was still free. He set a precedent early on in the game for which we should have some more yellow cards by his ruling. He completley lost the plot.

It wasn't a spear tackle. It was a penalty according to the rules because he did go over horizontal. It was the momentum of the tackle that took him over rather than a malicious attempt to injure the player. Seymor was right it goes on all the time in NRL but in SL it gets penalised, thems the breaks. Crookes lashed out but people often do when hurt, its a mans game. If it had happened to a Hull player I would have been up in arms about it at the time but on reflection realised it wasn't that bad.