Listen, I'm normally the first asking for a return for a bit of biff and crunching tackles that SL seems to lack these days, but some of those hits in the first half were shocking.

For what it's worth, there was a similar outcry on here after the Fiji Ireland game but I personally didn't think that compared, the Fijians were just hard, Samoa were thuggish.

Did you think about the risks of playing rugby league before you went on the pitch ???

Too right. I thought tackle from behind was terrible, very late and could have resulted in a nasty injury.

I'll refer you to salford's post above. If you think that's the way the game should be played - cheap shots putting players at risk of injury, I would say you are clueless.

That pass from Baille at the end

I have never seen anything like that before, probably never will. One for the 'what happens next' segment of Question of Sport!

No it's not and the Samoan will now be banned and probably miss the rest of the tournament, hardly got away with it has he.

Let's hope so. But i wouldn't be suprised if it's just a slap on the wrist and a bag of gummy bears. We see plenty of cop out from the judiciary as well.

He'll get 2-3 matches IMO

Of course i did, what I didn't reckon on was a world class pr1ck hitting me through the shoulder whilst I was on my haunches regaining my feet after the tackle had been complete. His captain got him off the pitch before the place erupted (it was a friendly see?) and as there had been no malice but a good and hard and fair game to that point why would I expect not be hit in such a p155 poor manner?

Every time you play the there is a chance of injury, that is what makes it such a tough sport to play but what you shouldn't expect is to be attacked in by a C.u.nT on the pitch.

As alluded to earlier, is Ryan Bailey a hard but fair player? No he isn't , he is capable of cheap shots, as is Westwood (cowardly punching in the Grand Final) as is Hock or all the other players who like to be thuggish etc. When Sean Long got belted by Willie Mason in the Tri Nations should Mason have stayed on the field because "it's a mans game, played by men" or would it have been right to send him off there and then.

Ironically, in days gone by Red cards were shown, it is only now in the SL era that it seems to be absolutely the last thing to do. I don't care about 17 v 17, if a player wants to commit an offence that is a red card then it should be so. I think if Perenara would have used the Yellow after the second hit tonight we wouldn't have got the third hit and if we did and he used a red who wouldn've argued wit his refereeing? It was his inability to put an on the spot sanction in place that cause so much annoyance.

You unfortunately are just someone who lacks the intellect to understand between fair and foul. I pity you.

Sorry but I loved that, shame it ran away at the end but I really did enjoy the rough physical stuff, bit like going back to the eighties.
I've watched most games now and the team I have a soft spot has been the Samoans, think I'll even get a Samoan jersey, could anyone point me to a place I could purchase one?

Lose the halfbacks and you lose structure. The Samoans set out to target the french halves in a thuggish, cowardly way and it paid off for them plus the guy whose sole purpose is to stop this failed miserably. Yes they got away with it. Shame really as they probably had it in them to win fair and square.

It's like listening to Eddie and Stevo in here, game was physical and tough, everyone is ok, they all shook hands after the game and the best team won. Move on.

The players will always play the ref, if he doesn't deal with things they'll carry on, the French should have just reciprocated and threw in a couple themself.

It always makes me chuckle when Stevo gets shocked and outraged when there is biff,,, as if it didn't happen in the early seventies when he was playing..

Great idea! That'd double the chance of a player sustaining a serious injury, which is just the sort of publicity our sport lacks...

Disgraceful tactics by the Samoans, and the ref bottled it early on, which just encouraged more late cheap shots.

Actually better for England, IMO, to face France in the QF, but at times tonight that was just unpleasant to see.

Get over yourself