I mean that in my opinion Moa, Puletua and tonight Westerman all put in good, hard, solid hits in a contact sport. The kind of hits I love to see and will get out of my seat and applaud. Moa was sent off, Puletua was sent off, Westerman will receive a ban - all because Stevo and other assorted muppets want hits like that banned. Why not stick Velcro round their s and play touch rugby I wonder?

No I was laughing that when TF picked you up on grammar he got his grammar wrong and miss spelt grammar.

I don't care about it as long as I can read it.

I think you have a great point.

reply to woolagong I never said tinkerman was right to name call. I was on about his frustration at the game tonight and the equal sarcy frustration.. from other posters ( now you joined the bandwagon ) lol .

what folk on here forget is that we all support the same team. now cue the sarcy comments

I don't, it's contact with the head and is out lawed.

IMO there was no malice in Westerman's challenge it was just one of those collisions were the timing is slightly off on his part and Luakai was unfortunate. Westerman put exactly the same shot on Mossop (I think it was him) from the next kick off and got his timing spot on.

Wow, makes a change

If you look on YouTube for great rugby league hits (sad I know) most of the best ones would now have Stevo et al calling for long bans and red cards. There's one from Awen Guttenbeil for NZ Warriors (later Cas) that I could watch all day long. If somebody did that in a televised super league game ATM then Ganson/Child would have a long discussion with Ian Smith while Stevo rants on about getting this sort of thing out of our game, then he'd be sent off or put on report, and then he'd be banned.

Stevo's a t@ who knows nowt about today's game.

The game is being sanitised by people who either don't play or have played in a totally different era. The players and fans should have more of a say in how the game is run. IMO

Deliberate, swinging arm contact with the head is dangerous, malicious and rightly banned. See Turner at HKR last week.

But a straight arm tackle where a guy is ducking into it and cops it is just an unfortunate by-product of a physical game.

Didn't get to see the match tonight as was working and couldn't listen either.. But some customers said westerman gave a good hit on lauaki and could cop a ban. If anyone has a link to it (crack on lauaki) send me it please.

After reading recent posts, I agree that briscoe should be moved back to the wing. I Don't rate him at full back. I'd prefer him on wing.
How did tom lineham get on??

Morley has based an entire career out of tackling the head and our Sky friends worship him. Westerman's challenge tonight was in no way malicious but he'll get done because there is a fashion at the moment in the game and a big fat bandwagon is rolling. Much worse challenges have gone unpunished regularly in the fairly recent past.

You really are a god-awful side.

You really are a Dog-awful troll, Brucie.