Saddened! wrote:
Interesting how? It's such poor handling of it again by the RFL. They've let him off a significant ban on a technicality because the initial contact was slightly above the knee, despite acknowledging the bad intent and the danger to the ball carrier.
Asiata is going to end someone's career, if not disable them, if he keeps tackling like that. He's so reckless with it, just throws his shoulder and bodyweight through the leg, with no attempt to wrap the arms. Why does it have to take a lad getting his leg obliterated for the RFL to act on it? Why not just issue him a final warning via letter if they've tripped themselves up in their frameworks? Tell him to pack it in and change his technique.
If initial contact was above the knee what can the panel do? We're not banning people for swinging arms that miss, or high tackles that 'almost' make contact with the head? There has to be a cut off point of contact that is acceptable, above the knee has been decided to be ok, so he can't be banned for it.
If he gets one wrong he'll get a big ban, but you can't ban him because he might get it wrong.
It's clear that the entire town of St Helens want him chased out of the country for knocking them out of the Challenge Cup last year - the healthy thing is to let it go.
Statistics: Posted by Alffi_7 — Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:52 pm
