Quote cadoo="cadoo"Not true.
What was the difference between Terry Newtons intentional shot on Long and Howell's intentional shot on Tomkins?
Nothing execpt that Tomkins was not injured.'"
Turry's was worse than anything I've seen on a rugby field because of how pre-meditated it was. Sure I've seen some bad-uns for example Sonny Nickle and Vila Matautia two that spring to mind, but Newton had hurting St Helens players on his mind throughout that game and didn't stop until he had. I've never seen that mindset before or since that day.
Cunningham's on Friday was borderline worthy of a penalty, it was petulant and born of frustration at the continued messing about at the play the ball. There was zero intent to harm and there was absolutely no venom in it either. I'd bet we've seen hundreds of similar incidents at play the balls this season, none of which have led to bans.
As has been mentioned had Stosic not been hurt no one would be talking about this at all. He was injured by freakish bad luck, not by any malicous intent on Cunningham's part.