How would one break their nose, cheek, and knock 2 teeth out without touching their head?

Please explain how he suffers such injuries if there's no contact to the head?

Is contact to the head illegal in Rugby League?

Does MacGraf Lieuluai make contact with Matty Russells head?

If you answer yes, please explain why he should be exempt from punishment

This is blatant proof of foul play he should have walked. How do you break someone nose, cheekbone and knock out two knashers without serious amount of contact to the head.

I have seen players sustain exactly those injuries making a tackle, does that mean they have been fouled?

So Warrington didn't have a say in their own comeback and as a more experienced play off team didn't have anything to do with Widnes building a lead in the first place you know....'' awful game management decisions, stupid passes, penalties, etc' ?

I think you're a bit confused BOD confusing

Most likely as players 9/10 sustain those injuries through illegal contact with the head

Russell was the ball carrier.

If you can't comprehend why that would make a difference there's no point correcting you.

poor lad if he has had that much facial damage.

So who to choose because its obvious from the displays this weekend its Catalan and Warrington

Saints will pick the winner of Catalan/Hudds. Fo' sho.

Just watching it back now, definitely hit him in the face with his shoulder, he brought his arm up AFTER the contact, that's saved him from going off in my opinion.


He's not gone to tackle Russell, he 's gone to hit him at high speed, which is a little bit reckless

Most tackles involve attempting to hit the opposing player at high speed. That's what rugby league players do. That distinction is false.

I absolutely understand Warrington fans feeling aggrieved at what's happened to Russell, who would have been a key player in their push on Old Trafford, but let's not try to create a drama where there is none. It was tackle which connected with the head carelessly, not a deliberate attack to the head. I'll be honest, until I saw the replay from the angle Carney and Wells showed after the game, I thought Thaler got it spot on, as it was very difficult to see any direct head contact from the angles shown, and at full speed. I thought the knock-out was due to his head hitting the floor after the impact. But clearly, direct impact on the head did take place. He'll get charged with a careless high tackle, of the sort which does take place in every game, but which - thankfully - doesn't usually have such awful consequences.

Let's put the pitchforks away. RL is a high-speed collision sport, and occasionally those collisions go wrong. It doesn't mean the players are actively trying to seriously injure each other every time someone gets hurt.

To be fair to thalet he asked the vid refs opinion and even at slow motion they couldnt see a head tackle!! Then again they also did see a widnes arm that didnt exist for the second try even after looking half a dozen times. Ganson is great at vid ref aint he

Yes, but the injuries susstained have no bearing on the legality of the tackle, if you cant understand that there is no point correcting you

Leuluia was attempting a legal tackle, but Russels attempt to regain tge ball put his body in a poor position to recieve that tackle, I dont see what could have been done to avoid it

As RH has alluded to RL is a high speed contact sport, these things happen unfortunatly

and when they do the culprit should be punished, be that by a penalty, Red Card or being cited and banned after the fact.

Contact with the head is illegal, the burden of care lays with the defender and the attacking player falling, bending, stooping or any other 'ing' is only a mitigating factor.