I don't have a problem with Morley, in fact if you read my posts in this thread you'll see me defending Morley and suggesting it would be disappointing if hits like the one he did on Hansen would go punished.

However the picture clearly shows a perfect example illegal grapple tackle that should be penalized, doesn't it? Or am I not acknowledge nor mention it?

Most people have backed him haven't they?

Outside of Wigan he's my favourite player in superleague and always has been.

Jeez mate, take your Wire specs off. Most people, myself included, thought the hit on Hansen was awesome (although, if I'm honest, I did think he connected with the head as well as the shoulder!

) However the tackle pictured is illegal. Simple as....

He connected with Hansens head (which is why Hansen ended up seeing stars) with the top part of his arm which if you watch the replay on BBC iPlayer of the SL show you can see he swings to do so. Go to 15 mins 45 seconds and watch from there.

Here is the build up as he comes in and you can see his arm is out wide.

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and here is where he connects:

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Quite often still images of a split second of an incident makes things look worse than they are but it actually looks worse than these two still images if you watch it through from this angle on the iPlayer.

Morely comes in and basically belts Hansen's head with his bicep. No idea why anyone considers this a legal hit.

Dave

I thought it was just me that had good eyesight on here.

Hansen is trying to avoid the impact by trying to spin out of the collision, hence why he's side on in your picture, he gets his head in the wrong posistion and cops the full force of Morley's shoulder and bicep. Nothing wrong with it, end of.

You clearly have not watched the video because for a start Morely's shoulder doesn't connect at all. It's his arm.

If you watch the video you will see Morely swing a stiff arm to connect with Hansen. It's as plain as day Morely is winding up to do that in the first picture and that is what happens.

What Hansen was doing doesn't alter that.

Dave

I like Morley and i dont think there was anything wrong with his hit on Hansen this is rugby not football, things like that are what make the sport. However I noticed Morley every time went to run at the smallest man on the pitch, either Deacon or Leuluai and mostly ended up getting smashed by Leuluai

Outplayed by both Fielden and Coley on Saturday.

I,ve watched several times, paused it at the point of impact and its clearly shoulder and bicep, to say its a stiff arm is quite laughable. Morley went for the shoulder charge and Hansen tried to avoid it, i'm sure the Wigan players near the tackle would have had something to say if it was a stiff arm.

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It was a stiff arm and this "its ruby not football" line of argument when applied to this incident - well it's a load of tosh IMO.

Dave

So Morely runs with his left arm cocked like that normally does he? And it was just pure chance he twists his body round, keeping his arm stiff and making no attempt to actually tackle Hansen so his arm impacts the way it did? Open your eyes.

Dave

Your the one who needs there eyes open pal, there was 60 seconds left, we were losing, Morley went for a big hit to try and force the error, it was a clear shoulder charge which unfortuantly ended up making contact with Hansen's head because of the way Hansen tried to spin from the collision. Stop trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill, about 99% of posters on here who saw the hit thought it was a great tackle, the other 1% should watch rugby union if they don't want to see shoulder charges.