McGuire, Lee Smith, JJB, Briers...Three of those in the space of a few days. Like I said, it's becoming a bit of a theme.

That's all good and well. But IMO people won't go home knowing the best side won until something is done about forward passes. It's meant to be a rule but the amount of tries I've seen awarded despite forward passes is laughable, and that's just since the start of the season.

I don't have an answer to this, but I do think it's a problem. The only thing I can think of is if it was reviewable by the video ref. IMO from a high up position it is possible to see if a pass has gone forward.

To be more related to this thread, the tackle last night was a shocker and deserved a red. And no I wasn't glad to see it. Briers is one of the best players in SL, I wouldn't want to see him injured, even if it might make Wire more beatable.

Its always been around and is nothing new. Bet many fans rejoiced when Sonny Nickle got based or Leeds fans liked it when Skerret got it also.

For me its the players that bring it upon themselves. I never want to see a honest good pro get injured but some players simply don't deserve sympathy.

Lee Smith taunted the Wigan crowd two seasons ago after his last min try. He almost had to pay for a ticket he was that far into the stand. He follows it up with late challenges and sky digs in most games.

Don't expect sympathy to be shown for players like that who simply don't deserve it.

Compare Moz's hit on Hansen, that's what fans want, hard legal hits, that take the wind out of players but ultimately they get up from and all is well with the world, we don't want illegal forearms or elbows or chicken wings and cannonballs. We don't want players suffering serious long term damage not even if their name is Ryan Bailey.

In fairness Lee Smith's injury was from a perfectly legal hit, and as such is exactly what fans want to see, provided the injury is not serious.

Most fans want to see other players get hurt, and those that say they don't are probably lying. If it's from a legal challenge (and not done accidentally) and the injury isn't serious then it's brilliant.

By injured, i mean as others probably do, minor and temporary. Stuff that takes them out the game for about 20 mins, a good winding being my favourite. Breaks and twists though i wouldn't wish on any player.

I agree. Another example being the classic bone-cruncher that Leulaui gave Maurie Faasavalu, I could watch that over and over again on Youtube.

I think out of the game for that match is the limit. Wishing anything after that is making it personal. When a player goes for the big hit the aim should be to hit the player so hard that he can't continue for the rest of the game.

The thing that seems to be ruining good discussions at the moment is bellyaching about things that have nothing to do with the thread. I mean you wouldn't allow threads on the Leeds board to be a whingeathon about what you don't like about this board would you? Oops my mistake, it seems the thread about you winning the WCC has turned into a whingeathon about this board - I've lost count how many that is.

If you have a problem with this board perhaps you should actually do as you said you would do........



That didn't last very long did it?

Please don't derail the thread again, thanks.

Surely this game has give everyone an insight to what an absolute scum bag Chris Bridge is?

Tomkins dosent deserve half of what he gets, Bridge is a horrible dirty player that seems to slip under everyones scumbag radar.

Westwood is another dirty runt that never gets a mention.

There was also the incident where Brown went in with a raised elbow which then resulted in Westwood swinging his arm at Brown that had a lot more venom in it than the Briers incident. The commentators missed it but Brown didn't. To be fair Westwood was retaliating but he was in a gang of 3 and Brown couldn't defend himself because some other wire had him tackled around his arms.

its taken 6 pages to mention his contribution to last nights mayhem , week after week he does this , Wires very own version of Ben Cockayne .

if chris bridge is a thug then hock is a gangster mob boss! honestly, do you not think he may have been aggravated with a slight elbow/forearm in the face? and it was the referee what let it get out of control.

how many times as chris bridge been cited in the last few seasons , if he is a scum bag and dirty player