at this thread.

If it had been the other way round with someone like Danny McGuire floored you'd all be creaming your knickers, or in the case of Wigan fans, be hoping his career was over.
Tamou thinks he's a hard man but just like Fielden, he's clearly not. He got what he deserved TBH.

They might not throw punches any more down under but there's more niggle in their game than ever. High shots, elbows, shoulders and lots of comedy slapping..

If you want to laugh even more at Tamou just take a look at 2015 State of Origin fights on that video site that everyone loves. Should change his name to Slappy.

Spot on, they'd be no condemnation of the Cowboy player who floored him on here, only congratulations.

Seem to recall people mostly thanking Radford for striking Bailey a few times when he wasn't in a position to defend himself.

Load of faux outrage hypocrites on here.

Probably the funniest thing with these incidents is how they get reported in a certain way on here despite video evidence to the contrary. Radford-Bailey was a classic, as was Brian McDermott supposedly knocking out the entire Leeds pack once. Both incidents can be seen on the site that shall not be named and are literally nothing like what some people represent them to be.

As for Garbutt's punch, I think Tamou wasn't expecting it or really looking his way, as he's used to a bit of niggle not resulting in anything.

Garbutt Floors an oponent who wasn't looking at him = 2 Matches
Boudebza legitimately tackles and opponent around the waist and slides down the legs = 4 Matches

The RFL motto should be 'We defy Logic'

To be fair to the Aussie lad, i wouldn't (and maybe he wouldn't) had any problem with a fight between Galloway and the Aussie breaking out...i enjoy a good punch up at the rugby, it adds to the occasion and gets everyone excited. I think it should just be an automatic sinbin for the pair if two fight each other and let them come back on, i don't like red cards dished out for fights.

But for Garbutt, he wasn't actually involved and took the Aussie by surprise with that dig; that's not on and probably deserved a red. as do houses who run in from the side to belt someone unawares when they're fighting someone else.

But like you say, it's a bit of a silly complaint. These are big men and can take it, there doesn't need to be spoken digs about it after the piece.

i do like the lengths some people have gone to portray James Tamou as an innocent victim who would never ever have expected to get punched. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJpcuSQS5fI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtdGjGTPkqU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V9Cu05lGjY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Etll1cTyQ The poor lamb

i do like the lengths some people have gone to portray James Tamou as an innocent victim who would never ever have expected to get punched. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJpcuSQS5fI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtdGjGTPkqU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V9Cu05lGjY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Etll1cTyQ The poor lamb

That punching is a part of the game, always has been. Even in the NRL where nobody would ever punch anyone, you can see that exact player doing so within the last year and all this handwringing and screams of wont somebody think of the children are pretty silly.

Prop punches prop who struck team-mate, isnt a headline that should shock anyone who has seen a game of RL before.

(and i can only guess what those with the most extreme reaction towards Garbutts punch could think about a couple of those, especially the first one)

Nothing, but it puts all this "NRL players are angels" rubbish into perspective and shows Tamou up for the grub he's always been doesn't it?

Garbutt's got his ban and been made to make a public apology, which was just embarrassing for something we've all seen 1000 times before but I'd like to think he'd do it again TBH when the next grub wants to play the hard man. Jamie Peacock would've done exactly the same thing if he was still playing as would 1 or 2 players at most other clubs.

TBH I don't get what all the fuss is about. So someone in a hard physical contact sport punched an opposition player. I don't see why there is a big fuss. There is a video of when one of my own teams players knocked out a player from the Queensland touring side in the 80s and that is revered by Hull KR Fans.

That was a brutal game. Broadhurst was hard but I don't remember him going around decking people, so something must have happened earlier?

The only one they lost as well. My own side Leeds were a complete rabble when we played them, and we lost 58-2.

To true even the ref who was stood near did not do any thing( refs dont change)I was their and loved it

I don't think anyone has suggested they are angels; but it's a fact that following the NRL making a closed-fist punch an automatic red card, the incidence of striking has dramatically reduced. What you tend to get now is a bit of pushing and shoving with maybe heads together like rutting stags - but no punches thrown.

With this incident, there is no doubt a blow was delivered first by Tamou - an open-handed, clip round the ear - but a blow nonetheless; Galloway would probably have responded in kind, and it would have ended with a telling off from the ref; Garbutt escalated it quickly with a needless and totally disproportionate right hook, which sat Tamou on his backside, such was the force involved. The ref had no choice but to send him off and he deserves a ban, not least for his own stupidity.