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| The "lets slag Warrington off" phone in is going on as we speak on Radio Pie eater... Sorry Radio Manchester...
The death penalty is being called for ,for Bridge...
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| Quote ="MikeyWire"The "lets slag Warrington off" phone in is going on as we speak on Radio Pie eater... Sorry Radio Manchester...
The death penalty is being called for ,for Bridge...
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They're obsessed with us.... quite sad really.
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| Quote ="morleys_deckchair"They're obsessed with us.... quite sad really.'"
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| Quote ="upsetzombie"Are you serious?
IMO you are just trying to look clever and it isn't working.
I am a lifelong wire fan. It was at least a penalty and he should get a 1 game ban imo.
Attempting to break things down and inviting responses like you have is pretty pathetic. If you can't see that it was a bad challenge then further discussion with you is futile.
However, i will go with dangerous contact as an offence, but i'd have no arguments if the judiciary charged him with 'tool like behaviour' and gave him a small ban.
Grow up.'"
Then we agree to disagree.
I broke things down, because, many people were being carried away on a tide of emotion. Bad challenge!. I'm sorry, no. A hard BUT effective challenge, yes. At times, RL is like boxing, show some weaknesses, and your opponents will exploit them. Bridge wanted to show he wont be intimidated, fair play to him. IF Bridge went and got the opponents head, I would be advocating a ban. As he didn't, I wont.
Grow up. No. ner, ner, nerner ner.
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| Quote ="lefty goldblatt"I had the radio on last night, and Mssrs French and Rooney on Radio Manchester had this down as decapitation, and I feared the worst for the forthcoming disciplinary hearing.
I've just watched the sky+ of this match, and I've not seen ANYTHING illegal in this incident..
1) Bridge attempts to tackle the player, brings him up in the air (but not over the horizontal), and the player lands on the ground, but the tackle is NOT completed
2) Bridge then completes the tackle, with a forearm to the CHEST (fist not clenched).
3) Cue hysteria from ALL commentators and Bradford fans alike, due to them previously being "hard done to" by the officials.
Can anyone inform me where/when
a) anything illegal has happened in the above 3 instances
b) tackling hard in our game has been abolished. Kevin Tamati/Mike Nick or come to think of it, ANY tough tackling player, of ANY generation, of ANY team must have been "laughing their cobblers off" at the over-exageration over a hard tackle incident.
I've said this before. The 3 point game used to have a legend (Bill McLaren) commentate on their sport, and if that incident happened in his code, he'd've merely have said "little bit af argy-bargy there, but let's look back at that fantastic try scored a few minutes ago"....and that would have been it. Not with Eddie and Stevo, they want to play Judge Jury and Executioner for anything. They basically want a sanitised sport, which cannot happen in our game. Rough and tumble (that's all it was) and foul play, will always exist in a high contact sport.
Oh, and just before the usual suspects charge in, if it was player "A" for their team, on one of our players, doing the same thing as Bridge, I can assure you, I'd be saying the same thing.
RL, it's a tough man's game, let's not change it, simply because commentators have got "bees in their bonnets" over nothing.'"
so why were you all crying over tommy lees tackle then its a mans game as you say
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| Should Bridge be banned who do you see stepping in at centre against us next Friday?
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| Quote ="fun time frankie"so why were you all crying over tommy lees tackle then its a mans game as you say'"
A crack on the chin is definitively comparable to a forearm on the chest.
I think you have been having a little too much fun.
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| Quote ="Sibbs Rhinos"Should Bridge be banned who do you see stepping in at centre against us next Friday?'"
Evans or Ratch i would guess
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| Quote ="getdownmonkeyman"A crack on the chin is definitively comparable to a forearm on the chest.
I think you have been having a little too much fun.'"
im going for the lefty G way of thinking and saying lee hit briers chest and a conbination of briers slipping and lees arm rising caused it to look worse than it was hows that
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| Quote ="fun time frankie"so why were you all crying over tommy lees tackle then its a mans game as you say'"
I see you passed your GCSE in tedry, didn't you, Fun Time.
We were "crying" over a clearly HEAD HIGH (illegal) challenge.
On this occasion, Bridge's forearm hit the chest.
Hope that clears it up for you.
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| The concern here for Warrington fans is surely the fact that Bridge desn't know the difference between the ball and Ben Jeffries' chest. Now we know how to bamboozle him next time.
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| As long as Bridge knows where the try line is, I'm not easily concerned
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| Quote ="lefty goldblatt"I see you passed your GCSE in tedry, didn't you, Fun Time.
We were "crying" over a clearly HEAD HIGH (illegal) challenge.
On this occasion, Bridge's forearm hit the chest.
Hope that clears it up for you.'"
didnt you read my last post i thought i explained what actually happened and also any team with ben westwood in it cant really complain about high tackles can they
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| Can't believe we are still talking about it.Time to move on.
Seen worse and that.
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| Quote ="fun time frankie"and also any team with ben westwood in it cant really complain about high tackles can they'"
But he started it, miss!
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| Quote ="bigchris"It appears you are in the minority with your opinions, even the majority of Wire fans I've seen posting have said he was in the wrong. Dropping on a defenseless player whilst leading with your forearm/elbow is not 'tough play', it is a pointless cheap shot which is not needed in our sport.
If both players were stood upright and Bridge tackled in that manner, leading with his forearm/elbow then it would be a penalty, it makes no difference that Jeffries was lying on the floor.
The reason that the commentators and the majority of people watching will have had 'bees in their bonnets' over the incident, is because the challenge was dirty and reckless.'"
The bit in bold is interesting you say leading with the forearm/elbow should just be a penalty, so why should Bridge been sent off then because surely running at someone with an forearm/elbow in there chest would hurt more than dropping on someone using the forearm/elbow?
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| Quote ="fun time frankie"didnt you read my last post i thought i explained what actually happened and also any team with ben westwood in it cant really complain about high tackles can they'"
The thing is, Briers got a deliberately aimed shot, straight in the chops, which is illegal.
As for Westwood's disciplinary record, he's not been that bad, over the years. His last major ban, was 3 years ago!
P.S. Use full stops. It does help.
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| Quote ="Who are ya!!"The bit in bold is interesting you say leading with the forearm/elbow should just be a penalty, so why should Bridge been sent off then because surely running at someone with an forearm/elbow in there chest would hurt more than dropping on someone using the forearm/elbow?'"
I haven't actually said Bridge should have been sent off?
My reply was to one of your fans saying the tackle was fair. Whether it was a penalty, yellow or red card wasn't really my point, more that it was certainly not a fair challenge. In fact if he hadn't tried to claim the tackle was fair I wouldn't have even mentioned it.
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| I think if Kevin Brown never got banned for his running elbow on Bridge the other week then Bridge has a good case for his defence. We shall see.
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| bridge looked 'angry'...that's what the problem is fellas...we can't have players looking angry in the tackle it upsets peoples sensibilities.
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| It's worth remembering that Bradford fans are already feeling sensitive after hearing the teams announced, realising that they binned off our two current centres in favour of a number of 'new Vainikolo's' and (God forbid) Michael Platt. That's not an easy thing for any rugby supporter to live with so any feeble opportunity to defend those decisions are taken.
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| Quote ="just_browny"It's worth remembering that Bradford fans are already feeling sensitive after hearing the teams announced, realising that they binned off our two current centres in favour of a number of 'new Vainikolo's' and (God forbid) Michael Platt. That's not an easy thing for any rugby supporter to live with so any feeble opportunity to defend those decisions are taken.'"
After he didn't score on Saturday, I'm hoping the Platt voodoo has been broken, much like the Littler Gap.
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| Quote ="lefty goldblatt"The thing is, Briers got a deliberately aimed shot, straight in the chops, which is illegal.
As for Westwood's disciplinary record, he's not been that bad, over the years. His last major ban, was 3 years ago!
P.S. Use full stops. It does help.'"
well when you lot do your guess the score etc everbody puts westwood to give away the first penalty
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| Quote ="fun time frankie"well when you lot do your guess the score etc everbody puts westwood to give away the first penalty'"
Usually does, yeah. For lying on in the tackle, not for high tackles/forearms
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| Quote ="fun time frankie"well when you lot do your guess the score etc everbody puts westwood to give away the first penalty'"
And when we play you everyone puts down that we are going to dry bum you.
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