I am a Wigan fan and like other people on here I understand the concern people are having about these types of tackles. Wigan are clearly using a three-man tackle with the aim at putting the man on his back to slow the play of the ball down, to let the defense get itself set again. This to my mind is just good defensive tactics played to the limit of the rules brought over by a very smart coach. I don't believe for one moment that Coley is trying to deliberately injure another player. All the Wigan players surely understand that "what goes around, comes around". The real issue is that when you have been playing 30-40 minutes and you are tired, your tackling technique becomes sloppy and then you have a real chance at hurting another player, and that is why the RL needs to look at this. Other teams will start copying Wigans technique and then we may see a whole spate of injuries to players, so it needs to be examined very soon. My other worry however is that we can legislate against these slow the ball tactics, but go the other way so that the game becomes like Rugby Sevens where the defense can never get set. That to me would get boring as well. I like to see Rugby where attacking skills and defence is in balance - without one dominating the other.

a response i expected

wont answer how many .but the ones i know dont go out to injure players ,

that says more about your wife than anything else

tell me wrong here, but if you sit back and look at the games on sky (i watch the wire games live), and i'm probably a bit biased
but there is a big difference between the tackling techniques used by wigan and other sides including hudds who are clinical.

and the ones you know name the players who go out to injure others.


il wait ron for their names?
you wont name 1

repetitive bickering, ends