nowt wrong with it imo.

start banning those hits and we may as well play tick and pass, or tag rugby

"Rugby League - Its Not For Girls"

Was a great hit

Which is a rare thing in itself

Slightly OT but what about Cunningham's tackle on Burgess shortly after the Bailey incident? I may be wrong but was that not a grapple tackle? - there was definitely intent to 'attack the head'

The shoulder barge tackle for me is a lazy tackle and are rarely executed one on one but normally by the 2nd or 3rd man in. Poor technique and lazy footwork are good bedfellows with this type of tackle. Baileys barge was legal by the rule book though.

similar to Grahams 3rd man in tackle on bailey ??????

the tackle was still active, the referee hadnt called held so any Saints player had every right to get stuck in to complete it.

he was penalised for it.

Nothing wrong with that.

I know he was penalised for it. But i was asking if it was a grapple tackle? And if it was, why is he not facing any further punishment?

it probably was, but has anyone faced further punishment for a grapple tackle this year?

Not that I know of it seems like the Chicken Wing tackle is the ‘in’ tackle that the RFL are punishing

Both legal but shows the point I was making.

i fully agree mate....i was just making a comparison.

both tackles 3rd man in, both tackles hard, but both tackles fair and legal.

True - and it can backfire badly. Ask Adrian Morley.

1, 2, 3................awwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Some of RL's laws need to be looked at big time.

Take last seasons playoff game at Leeds Calderwood get's sent to the sin bin for not standing square at the PTB and at the same time a fight kicks off and Senior runs 20 yards to hit someone in the head and gets a slap on the wrist and nothing else?

Only in RL can you get 10 mins for petty things like holding down in the tackle or having one foot offside but not for striking out an opposition player?

I certainly know which one would A-cause the most damage and B-which one was intended to injure a player. Guess the RFL see it differently?

I'm a bit more interested in Leed's fighting tbh... I think a punch has been thrown in all of their matches exept for ours(?). How on earth have they not been penilised by the panel once



Saints - Fighting
Wigan - Don't recall one


Warrington - Think so?
Manly - Fighting
Hull KR - Not sure there was fighting but McShane was sin binned?
Wakey - Fighting
Celtic - Fighting


And btw Both tackles were legal but they shouldn't appear too often really...

As stevo says "Its not tiddly winks"

Its an impact sport, these things will happen.

On the leeds fighting thing, i hadn't realised they have a fight in nearly every game. Poor disipline or passionate play?

I think it's a case of Leeds getting 'up themselves' in more ways than one at present.

Some of their fans' recent posts suggest they really think some kind of legend has been born at Headingley. After the WC and the WCC, I'd argue they're the best (though that's still debatable) of a pretty poor crowd.

Give us 2 weeks, see what leeds fans think then

bailey tried to start a fight against warrington, then shat himself and backpedalled on his invisible unicycle, it's on that video sharing site we're not allowed to mention on here, search for paul rauhihi and it should appear.

Anybody seen the Sculthorpe v Bailey fight on You Tube from 2006?

Well, I say fight...Bailey gets absolutely snotted. Great viewing.

do you think the outcome could of been differentif someone like westwood,, hockor fozzard had done that to a leeds player.