The 19's brawl was started by a Bradford player extending the leg of Burgess after the hooter.
There were a couple of incidents just before this and the ref had spoken to Beecham and a Bulls prop at a scrum.
Burgess looked (to me) to have been caught with a swinging arm in a tackle after the refs chat.

Our tackling 'technique' is the same as used by all SL clubs now, disappointing when coaches use this kind of attitude to cover up their inadequacies, he's doing a decent job at Bradford, but has let himself down with this.

This just to ddeflect from their poor end to the game which they should have won.
At the press conf after the game Cummins was whinging about not getting decisions. He didn't say that last year when MicMac was sent off and then charged with a grade A offence.

When a player is driving the ball forward and being held by two men yet keeps his legs pumping and going forward, doesn't he expect to get tackled around the legs? Either take the tackle or expect a leg tackle.
This is Cummins deflecting from his team's poor loss.

The danger in this type of tackle, is when the third player in, attacks the knee's. This is quite rightly punished with at least a penalty if the official see's it happen.

Our players technique is second to none in Super League in avoiding the knee joint and dropping from the thigh or pulling the ankles together.

If Cummins learns to look before he starts ranting because he has lost, he won't look such an idiot in future.

Cummings needs to ask himself 1 question:

Why did his side go out of steam in the last 15.

All sides use the 3rd man in now its nothing new he is hiding his own failures on others. Technical term for the next coach to be sacked. He is running out of ideas and now blames others.

Following in the footsteps of fellow Yorkshire whingers who were seeking to deflect from their own inadequacies, Richard Agar and John Kear. Big excuse-makers in 2010. Now coaching in lower divisions. That's the way, Franny.

Richard Agar coaches at Wakefield




I agree with Cummins. I mean, practically every visiting fan on this board has told us how dirty we are and how we're coached to deliberately injure players by 'the ape' but we're just too blinkered to see it.

Near enough.

well, the disciplinary clearly disagreed, the only incident deemed worthy of further action was Logan's grapple tackle.

its a case of whether theres a difference between tackling the knee and attacking the knee. you can see one of the events on the highlights and it seems like a normal tackle round the legs that unfortunately goes wrong as he falls. whether there is inherent danger in this sort of tackle or if these individuals were unlucky at the time, im not sure to be honest.

Summed up perfectly in one sentence.

That's all there is to hear folks. Nothing new on this thread.