Quote: FearTheVee "Terrible news - hope he recovers quickly.
FWIW having watched the tackle a couple of times I can't see any sort of malice there at all. Maybe I don't understand the rules well enough or haven't seen the right angle to know exactly what he's done so wrong for people to be calling it a terrible tackle given the bodies in there. But if it has been earmarked as the sort of tackle that could cause serious injury and now it has, then the proof is in the pudding.
Anyway, the important thing is Mike Cooper and I desperately hope this isn't something that shortens his career. Get well soon MC.'"
Imo the vast majority of terrible tackles don’t have malice involved. Doesn’t make them not a terrible tackle though. To quote many St Helens supporters when referring to Wigan players of the past. Players know the injuries these types of tackle can cause and choose to do them anyway, Knowles made that choice (and not for the first time).
The injury to MC has proved what all the fuss in Australia over this type of tackle is all about. The disciplinary have an interesting decision to make. They have the circumstance to really send a message out and stamp it out before it becomes a real problem.
