It's the angry facial expression as he "flops" on Jeffries that makes it look like he was looking to do harm. I think that was down to the fact that he got a swift one two in the danglies as he tackled Jeffries

1 match ban for me

He always looks angry

Thought Bridges retaliation was stupid and I don't condone it, but what is he supposed to do when he gets booted in the goollies ?

Agree with earlier post about the Sky commentators Stevo & Eddy. I've been saying for the last two seasons. Stevo is knowledgable about the game but dated. Eddy knows nothing at all about the game and covers it by ranting all through a game with irrelevant statistics from yester-year.

Replace the two asap with Carney & Cullen.

Has Rogues been on yet?

the wigan board as gone into melt down one even posted its the most disgusting act he as ever seen on a rugby field even worse than les boyds shot on brohman , we really are hated sign of a top class team thou hey

Nowt wrong with it, one on one great tackle he got kicked in the balls, looked jeffries clean in the eye and let him have some extra's. i'll defend it all day long.

anything else I can clear up for you.

listen Bradford wanted a niggling game so for large parts they got one, they have Heath L'estrange who is a bigger niggling bum hole than Sam Tomkins, no danger.

and you can stick that in your sig.

worse than Terry Newtons............????

according to the wigan fan was worse than terry newtons , cassidys on morley totally over the top thing to write

worse than hocks eye gauge

nooooooo that wasnt a gauge ben harrison got a eyelash in his eye and hock was just helping him remove it
wigan dont have cheap shot cowards

I had the radio on last night, and Mssrs French and Rooney on Radio Manchester had this down as decapitation, and I feared the worst for the forthcoming disciplinary hearing.

I've just watched the sky+ of this match, and I've not seen ANYTHING illegal in this incident..

1) Bridge attempts to tackle the player, brings him up in the air (but not over the horizontal), and the player lands on the ground, but the tackle is NOT completed
2) Bridge then completes the tackle, with a forearm to the CHEST (fist not clenched).
3) Cue hysteria from ALL commentators and Bradford fans alike, due to them previously being "hard done to" by the officials.

Can anyone inform me where/when
a) anything illegal has happened in the above 3 instances
b) tackling hard in our game has been abolished. Kevin Tamati/Mike Nick or come to think of it, ANY tough tackling player, of ANY generation, of ANY team must have been "laughing their cobblers off" at the over-exageration over a hard tackle incident.

I've said this before. The 3 point game used to have a legend (Bill McLaren) commentate on their sport, and if that incident happened in his code, he'd've merely have said "little bit af argy-bargy there, but let's look back at that fantastic try scored a few minutes ago"....and that would have been it. Not with Eddie and Stevo, they want to play Judge Jury and Executioner for anything. They basically want a sanitised sport, which cannot happen in our game. Rough and tumble (that's all it was) and foul play, will always exist in a high contact sport.

Oh, and just before the usual suspects charge in, if it was player "A" for their team, on one of our players, doing the same thing as Bridge, I can assure you, I'd be saying the same thing.

RL, it's a tough man's game, let's not change it, simply because commentators have got "bees in their bonnets" over nothing.

The bitter trolls are out in force on this thread...Makes me smile...

2 game game ban, reduced to 1 because it was Jeffries he smashed.

It appears you are in the minority with your opinions, even the majority of Wire fans I've seen posting have said he was in the wrong. Dropping on a defenseless player whilst leading with your forearm/elbow is not 'tough play', it is a pointless cheap shot which is not needed in our sport.

If both players were stood upright and Bridge tackled in that manner, leading with his forearm/elbow then it would be a penalty, it makes no difference that Jeffries was lying on the floor.

The reason that the commentators and the majority of people watching will have had 'bees in their bonnets' over the incident, is because the challenge was dirty and reckless.

Do you write "forearm/elbow" because you don't know the difference between the two? It would appear so.