I bet they werent teaching them to tackle the knee as third man in though. It cowardly, its not needed, its not difficult, impressive or worthwhile. The game would lose nothing by getting rid of it.

The one and only reason you would tackle a player around the knee as third man in is to increase the chances of that players suffering a knee injury.

The answer is fairly simple, players have a duty of care to each other, the tackle Wigan are executing frequently results in injuries. If a player cant find a way of safely executing that tackle it is the tacklers problem, not the player being tackled, it is the tacklers problem.

We outlaw tackling around the knee of a prone player, if that results in a benefit to the attacking player, so what. It is a failure of defence to be only able to execute and complete a tackle in an unsafe manner.

The third man in leg cheap shots are an f-ing joke, they did it so much and resulted in an injury, needs sorting out.

As did mine - 7 years ago! 1 high, 1 low. Basic tackling technique.

No problem with traditional tackling around the legs but attacking the knees from the front or particularly the side is a sick tactic.

It wasn't from the front or side of the knees though, the legs were clasped together from behind. Same as last week with the Solomona tackle. All this talk of Wigan deliberately targeting knees to injure players is bull. You see tackles like this in every game.

Coley misses the initial tackle and then Moa continues to drive forward with two defenders on him. Coley in a second effort to make up for his missed tackle throws himself at Moa from behind, both arms around his legs and the contact is above the knee, sliding down to grip the legs together. It might not have been the prettiest attempt but it was a legal tackle. Get over it.

I'd be more concerned with Lima's chickenwing in the first half. He may get a band for that.

As for the tackling around the leg...a lot of fans [and pundits] have been begging for this to happen for some time. Two legitimate tackles that, unfortunatley, led to injury. Now we're back on this whole 'Wigan go in the tackle to injure players' Which is pure tosh. Wigan employ the same tackling techniques as the likes of Huddersfield, but simply because it's Wigan, everybody loses their mind about it.

If that makes you feel better, stick with it.

Nobody really cares that its Wigan, its the fact a tactic is repeatedly getting players injured which is the issue.

Where did I say I didn't want us to win?

Apart from Moa and Solomona [Who were both legal tackles btw] Tell me the other players who were injured by Wigan's tackling around th legs?

Fatigued players will drop the ball more than fit players.
Hull didn't deserve to win. They were crap in attack (again), and the reason why I wanted to stuff us rather than beat us close (if we were going to lose) was to highlight this fact to our new chairman who would hopefully finally put us all out of our 4 year misery!

Chris Clarkson.

HTH

Any more? I was expecting hoards and hoards of crippled players at the hands of Wigan's tackling techniques. 3 out of what? Over 300 players? Good god, there's going to be no player's left if Wigan carry on like this. 3 a season! Dear god almighty.

Fair enough, we have only seen one broken jaw this season and that came from a legal tackle, we can probably allow deliberate high tackles again cant we?

I mean if Wigan's deliberate tactic has only injured three players this year and thats fine, and we have only one injury from a high tackle there cant be much wrong with it can there.

Rob Burrow got a ban for a chicken wing against Wigan and nobody got injured, nobody, I was expecting Burrow to have killed at least more people than a nuclear weapon but his dangerous action injured nobody, out of 65million people in the country! Dear God Almighty