Deliberate attempt to put pressure on the joint after the tackle was completed. Clearly intending to seriously injure the tackled player - and looks like he did.

Take the rest of the season out to think about what a t0sser you are, son, and if you're lucky, we might let you play again next year.

Shouldn't set foot on a pitch again that is an absolute disgrace.

That fella should be banned for life, then should be punched in the face by everyone registered on rlfans.com

Twat

Was that the sound of snapping bone?

judging by the range of movement and him holding his knee, i'd say thats a ligament or two.

the fact that we can hear it, with a crowd,and twenty five other players on the pitch, from that distance suggests it was bleedin loud.

Thats a bad one

WWF figure 4 leg lock territory

I bet Wane's making notes about technique there.

I can't actually see what he's done there. Twisted the foot to the left?

That's an assault. I would hazard a guess at ACL rupture.

Police intervention for me on that. At no point could that every be described as being part of sport.

Elima did a similar thing to Aaron Hereimia in the first game of the 2014 season. Fortunately Hereimia was not seriously injured

disgusting!, should be banned from playing the game ever again, absolutely no justification for doing that.
the ref is looking straight at the tackle, why could he not see what was happening?

Quote ="Saddened!"I bet Wane's making notes about technique there. I can't actually see what he's done there. Twisted the foot to the left?'" he's essentially done this, a Heel hook which is barred from use in competition until you're a black belt, as it will LOVE your knee up badstyle, on this if you get caught, you'll have like 6 months of damage done before you even feel it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9vkAy41M68 Poor lad.

Quote ="Saddened!"I bet Wane's making notes about technique there. I can't actually see what he's done there. Twisted the foot to the left?'" he's essentially done this, a Heel hook which is barred from use in competition until you're a black belt, as it will LOVE your knee up badstyle, on this if you get caught, you'll have like 6 months of damage done before you even feel it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9vkAy41M68 Poor lad.

And therein lies evidence no-one should ever pay any attention whatsoever to anything you ever post. Your observations on the game from this point forward (for those who didn't know it already) have just been rendered null and void and moronic.

"Can't see it"?

Well obviously I can see he's being naughty and applying pressure to the leg that he has no right to. But what I can't tell from that is what he actually physically does at the end. Does he just rotate the foot? I'm watching on an old work PC with a 13 inch screen, it's hardly easy to see.

Worse than Flower in my opinion (premeditated attempt to seriously injure an opponent rather than reaction) and deserves a longer ban. Anyone know if this has been to disciplinary yet and if so how many matches did he get?

Agreed. Whilst Flower's was (very) bad, it was a case of rage and lunacy, rather than a cynical attempt to severely injure.

A couple of weeks ago during the Bradford vs Doncaster game Matt Groat struck Lee Gaskell in the jaw with his elbow in an off the ball incident. Gaskell is now out for possibly 8 weeks, which is a big blow for Bradford's promotion push as he's one of the Bulls major attacking threats, however Groat is sitting out just 3 games and claims he never intended to hurt Gaskell. I think it situations like that, the players causing the injury should face a ban of the same length as the injured player is out for.

Isaac Luke got two weeks, even admitted he was trying to break the blokes leg!

Just checked the RFL disciplinary site. The offence happened in the 3rd minute! Charged with a grade F offence (8+ matches) . No outcome of hearing yet. www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/disciplinary/item?6556

Just checked the RFL disciplinary site. The offence happened in the 3rd minute! Charged with a grade F offence (8+ matches) . No outcome of hearing yet. www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/disciplinary/item?6556

As the BBC reports the death of another young man, this time in the Queensland Cup surely we should be looking to make the game as safe as it can reasonably be. As a man who played through the 80s and 90s I remember how virtually every team had some nutter who would happily inflict any damage that they could get away with. If the super athletes of today got up to the same tricks there would be carnage. Banning the worst kinds of behaviour is not going soft, the game is faster and as hard as it ever was but at last we are starting to show some common sense. No one should have to suffer from something that can reasonably be avoided.
My prayers go out to James Ackerman and his family.

Quote ="dr_feelgood"Just checked the RFL disciplinary site. The offence happened in the 3rd minute! Charged with a grade F offence (8+ matches) . No outcome of hearing yet. www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/disciplinary/item?6556'" 10 matches.

Quote ="dr_feelgood"Just checked the RFL disciplinary site. The offence happened in the 3rd minute! Charged with a grade F offence (8+ matches) . No outcome of hearing yet. www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/disciplinary/item?6556'" 10 matches.

I think it is becoming a little bit soft. There's still some great hits and some very tough lads playing. However there's too much diving, too much feigning injury, too many players seeing their s when a big hit comes in (some don't like being tackled hard. What's that about?!?)

I miss the shoulder charge. There was nothing wrong with the way it was. An illegal tackle was a shoulder charge to the head or a late shoulder charge - that was bang on! A fair shoulder charge was great to watch.

The thing that gets me about it is that when a player runs in with the ball he shoulder charges the defenders...so what's the difference?

Purposely going out to spear tackle someone or high tackle someone in someway, or targeting joints to inflict injury, is not the same as an unfortunate incident where someone has accidentally got injured or worse has had some serious damage or died.

This is a collision sport. That's a reason for why we all love it. Like boxing or MMA. You cannot make these types of sports softer because you take away a huge reason for why fans love the sport and why the sport is so good.

For me, unfortunate things happen in collision sports and you have to live with that and just hope they don't happen, not try and stop them happening because when you try to do that you remove too much from the sport. You cannot expect serious injuries and worse not to happen in collision sports.

Of course, the bad tackles or techniques should always be punished.

Of course you have to do more than hope - and yes, you do have to try to stop injuries from happening, despite the baying bloodlust of the 'bring back the biff' mob.

The game is a tough, collision sport - not a violent free-for-all - and I'm quite comfortable with the rules being adapted and rigorously enforced to keep players as safe as reasonably practicable.

Agreed with this.

I remember getting into RL because I liked the art of passing, runarounds, elusive speed, and side-steps. The exhilaration of a passing move, finding a gap, drawing in your man, etc...

Seems to me lately we have a few sadists who would rather see "shoulder charges", big hits, and what not.

At the end of the day, all tackles are to prevent a team from scoring. They're not worth losing your life or damaging your spinal chord over.

I'm not an advocate of tick and pass. And I regret how the game has developed to where every player is a 17st weight lifting behemoth, but it is what it is, and we should enact changes to safeguard players at every opportunity.

And £75