Quote: Mild Rover "I absolutely see your point. But if a player is being held upright by two men, has a studded boot on the ground and is hit [ihard[/i anywhere on his leg, there is what might be considered an unacceptable risk of injury.
Where I think Hull maybe have a grievance, is that if the RFL now consider that to be the case, have they made it explicit? Presumably hitting the knee is a C-grade.'"
The player was running forwards - i.e. moving one leg after the other in a forward direction. He wasn't being 'held' in one position (hence the absence of a call of 'held') which as I said earlier had it been the case [imight[/i be a different argument. If that is an unacceptable risk of injury then so are all other cases of a tackle on the legs where one or more defenders are in contact with the upper body. In other words as I said - there is no game of RL if that's the case.