I'm interested to see what you thought of the spear tackle on Greenwood. I'm suprised it hasn't been mentioned. I thought it was a pretty bad one. Delaney seemed lift and to drive him into the floor. It was fortunate Greenwood managed to twist and land arm/shoulder first.

No where near as bad as the Ferres incident, and that blunts any reaction. I think it was careless, reckless at worst, but I don't think Delany was ever fully in control of the tackle, so any card would of been incredibly harsh. I'll wait and see if it gets reviewed by the disciplinary - but what they do week on week is a lottery at best!

It was bad as in it went wrong, but he did the right thing and controlled it and pulled back from a spear.

That's the key difference. If you are going to lift, you have to be in control and use that control, if it goes further than you expected for any reason, then you have to pull back, hold it, basically the tackler has a duty of care and for me. As soon as it went above horizontal Deleny recognized the issue and made it safer. And took the penalty for it.

This is the thing with a lift (I've noticed Walsh likes to lift tackle too). It's effective as it makes sure the player goes down, but it does have a risk. As does a big tackle on the shoulders. If timing or positioning is out it's up to the tackler to adjust.

I'd expect a warning letter over tackling technique

Fair play. Looked worse than that to me though

Agreed

Did I say that? not something I can ever remember saying.

I thought it was you, if not than I apologise