Quote: rlfan "Salford v Saints last night had at least 20 examples of 3rd man in going low but none penalised, caused injury or even drew comment.
It does seem that this rule is only going to be enforced in the unfortunate incidence of an injury to a player whilst playing in a televised match and that is not a sensible basis for legislating in the game.
The advent of Sky has created many anomalies within the game and the answer always seems to be "get on with it" whereas it should be a case of engaging skilled professionals who understand both the game and the English language to frame sensible rules that are manageable across all levels of the game and not utterly distorted by TV replays.'"
Watching last night I noticed a lot of third man tackles and watched closely because of what happened with Collis.
For me, none of the ones I saw were worthy of a question from the referee because they were all above the knee.
Collis hit in the wrong place so although not intended, was dangerous because of poor technique.
If he'd clamped the legs together above the knee the tackle would have been just as effective but would not have caused injury