Why? Broken bones are not the fault of the coach and neither are they the fault of the conditioner. It's just damn bad luck.

Quote PHe="PHe"Click on the link below regarding Wellens' injury, scroll down to the end and read the comment by Potter regarding the Stosic incident. I've heard it all now, unbelievable! www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague/news/s ... elens.html'" "Stosic suffered a broken eye socket after the incident in the 68th minute but Potter felt it was accidental."

Quote PHe="PHe"Click on the link below regarding Wellens' injury, scroll down to the end and read the comment by Potter regarding the Stosic incident. I've heard it all now, unbelievable! www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague/news/s ... elens.html'" "Stosic suffered a broken eye socket after the incident in the 68th minute but Potter felt it was accidental."

it was a quick jab that certainly made his eye winch,
on reflection seeing it again in slow mo the hand was still was holding the ball but he made sure that it hit home when he through his hand upwards in his face, cunningham has the winning spirit within him and I don't think he is a dirty player, but at the time felt very hard done bye as we conceded a try while we was a man down,
in the end we won the game and stosic hasn't the injury as reported, the saints have take a far bigger beating than us with two players with broken hands and another with an leg / ankle injury,

plus also they have shown that they can be beaten

lets move on who's next to rip a new ar£e hole

The rules are still the same, though. No punches. It's punishable by means of penalty or ban. Cunningham got neither.

And no, I DON'T cheer a fight. It's not part of the game. The harder man is the one who takes the punch and laughs in the face of the thug who did it. When I played, I remember taking a huge swinging arm to the forehead (I was moving up in the defending line, the opposition passed the ball out of play, but the winger decided to clobber me anyway as I passed him). I got up as the referee was running over, and laughed at him. I made it clear that next time I got the ball, I was going to come straight at him, and he wasn't get past me for the whole match. We got the penalty, and I scored the first try of the match from the resulting sequence of play. The next time I got the ball, I basically ran him over as he tried to tackle me. And no, he didn't make it past me at any point.

THAT'S how Rugby League should be played, not thuggishly punching a player who tackled you legitimately just because you didn't like it.

If you're watching the sport for a fight, then switch to watching Boxing or UFC, because that's where it belongs.




"An argument isn't just contradiction. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition."

<--Waits for reply of "No it isn't".

Sorry, but you need to expand on that. You can't just post "utter rubbish" and expect that to stand up as some sort of defence against my point. Simple as. Try again and see if you can do any better.



Did you mean to write "Big 'uns" if we're talking about Cunningham?

Dont know where you get pal from =redNO NEED - TRB

I watch the game for many reasons, and not for fights at all, i stated they go on, and I for one dont mind a good punch up. I know one thing, JP took it to the aussies, and without his retaliation, Mason would have crippled most of our players, sometimes, albeit not this incident, but sometimes its needed.

It was an opinion. Just as yours was. Nothing more, nothing less. Justification to a well known online troll is not my style.

Regardless of what we think of a fight, this wasn't a fight, but a cheap unjustifiable shot, that the RFL has classed as intentional.
Caution only.

Ferres (and true I haven't seen it) has got a 1 match ban for something that a lot of people watching can hardly remember. A late challenge I believe.

My 2 pennys worth,

Imo it dosent matter what the extent of the injury is, the punishment and decision should rest on the actions.

This was an unprovoked attack, a cowardly act for which he should be banned. He wasnt trying to get off the floor he punched stosic intentionally in the face, and how the RFL can say there was accidental contact with the eye, shouldnt really matter where in the face cunningham (or burger king) hit stosic, it should still represent a ban.

How he gets off scotch free, god knows. Im not angry that a saints players been let off its the consitency issue that concerns me, as i can almost guarantee latu wouldnt have got away with it. Although he can now hopefully beat, wigan, quins and huddersfield in the coming weeks, we'd all like to see that

But nothing could be more consistent. Cunningham gets away with dirty play. Again.

In that, the RFL have been perfectly consistent.

sorry but that tickled me