Thats a bad one

WWF figure 4 leg lock territory

I bet Wane's making notes about technique there.

I can't actually see what he's done there. Twisted the foot to the left?

That's an assault. I would hazard a guess at ACL rupture.

Police intervention for me on that. At no point could that every be described as being part of sport.

Elima did a similar thing to Aaron Hereimia in the first game of the 2014 season. Fortunately Hereimia was not seriously injured

disgusting!, should be banned from playing the game ever again, absolutely no justification for doing that.
the ref is looking straight at the tackle, why could he not see what was happening?

Quote: Saddened! "I bet Wane's making notes about technique there. I can't actually see what he's done there. Twisted the foot to the left?'" he's essentially done this, a Heel hook which is barred from use in competition until you're a black belt, as it will LOVE your knee up badstyle, on this if you get caught, you'll have like 6 months of damage done before you even feel it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9vkAy41M68 Poor lad.

Quote: Saddened! "I bet Wane's making notes about technique there. I can't actually see what he's done there. Twisted the foot to the left?'" he's essentially done this, a Heel hook which is barred from use in competition until you're a black belt, as it will LOVE your knee up badstyle, on this if you get caught, you'll have like 6 months of damage done before you even feel it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9vkAy41M68 Poor lad.

And therein lies evidence no-one should ever pay any attention whatsoever to anything you ever post. Your observations on the game from this point forward (for those who didn't know it already) have just been rendered null and void and moronic.

"Can't see it"?

Worse than Flower in my opinion (premeditated attempt to seriously injure an opponent rather than reaction) and deserves a longer ban. Anyone know if this has been to disciplinary yet and if so how many matches did he get?

Agreed. Whilst Flower's was (very) bad, it was a case of rage and lunacy, rather than a cynical attempt to severely injure.

A couple of weeks ago during the Bradford vs Doncaster game Matt Groat struck Lee Gaskell in the jaw with his elbow in an off the ball incident. Gaskell is now out for possibly 8 weeks, which is a big blow for Bradford's promotion push as he's one of the Bulls major attacking threats, however Groat is sitting out just 3 games and claims he never intended to hurt Gaskell. I think it situations like that, the players causing the injury should face a ban of the same length as the injured player is out for.

Isaac Luke got two weeks, even admitted he was trying to break the blokes leg!

Just checked the RFL disciplinary site. The offence happened in the 3rd minute! Charged with a grade F offence (8+ matches) . No outcome of hearing yet. www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/disciplinary/item?6556

Just checked the RFL disciplinary site. The offence happened in the 3rd minute! Charged with a grade F offence (8+ matches) . No outcome of hearing yet. www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/disciplinary/item?6556

As the BBC reports the death of another young man, this time in the Queensland Cup surely we should be looking to make the game as safe as it can reasonably be. As a man who played through the 80s and 90s I remember how virtually every team had some nutter who would happily inflict any damage that they could get away with. If the super athletes of today got up to the same tricks there would be carnage. Banning the worst kinds of behaviour is not going soft, the game is faster and as hard as it ever was but at last we are starting to show some common sense. No one should have to suffer from something that can reasonably be avoided.
My prayers go out to James Ackerman and his family.