I don't think you know what hindsight means.

The RFL realise that that type of attack to the standing knee of a tackled player is very likely to cause injury and so have sent him a letter.

If a player the size of Tomkins can cause someone the size of KC suspected medial ligament damage by attacking the standing knee once tackled, smaller players would pick up serious knee injuries every week.

FWIW I'm not sure he meant it, but it's to be discouraged, hence the letter.

Sorry got mixed up, hypothetical is the word. Cheers JTB

KC wasn't tackled as the referee had not called held, play was in progress.
If the Saints 9 had offloaded play would have continued.
KC could have taken the tackle but tried to continue, Tomkins tackled him.

He went in on the knee joint side on. Might have meant it might have not. Hence a warning. We don't want players of any team getting legs broken through that sort of tactic developing. Again, not saying Tomkins meant it but I suppose they may be trying to nip it in the bud before we get 2 player holding a man up and someone coming in on the knee from the side.

I remember Vila Matautia carrying the ball in and dipping really low at an opponents knee with his shoulder. Wasn't anything illegal about it but he got warned or maybe even banned. Suppose it comes down to spirit of the game

IIRC he did Chris Chester with it and put him out for a while. No doubt the same people claiming total innocence were doing the same thing then...

On that basis, next time can we hold up Tompkins in the tackle so that Cunningham can smash into his knees "against the joint". If the leg gets broke then it will be OK, as its a nothing tackle.

He played to the whistle. What's the problem.

Its a tackle so no problems


Saints fans need to get over it.

heres the letter


dear scrote tompkins.

morleys gonna get ya.

Whos tompkins?

all pies are p rick s

silent p

But Tomkins is not spelt with a silent p.

oh and while were on it, last time Morley went to 'get' one of the wigan youngsters, he ended up like this:

If Tomkins is stood with the ball in his hands wrestling with the defenders trying to get the ball away then feel free to legally take him down in the same way as he did on KFC.

Injuries are part and parcel of the game and if anything had happened to Cunninghams knee is would have been a complete accident.

I'm suprised O'Carroll didn't get a warning letter for attacking Morleys face with his head.

nicely put! haha!

Atleast he would have had his annual operation excuse sorted if the aussies were coming



"I CANT PLAY FOR GB NAUGHTY SAM HURT MY KNEE"

I agree.

They'd be going through reams of the stuff at RFU HQ.

Whilst we're on the subject of KFC, did anyone else notice his Flying Kel impersonation in the first few minutes of the match?

Maybe the RFL will review the matter and send a letter to someone that can read it to him.

already been mentioned.

Got reviewed and was decided it was worth of a penalty and nothing more.

The referee was trying to help Cunningham by shouting 5th tackle, meaning if you don't pass the ball, the next tackle is 6th and last. On hearing this Sam ran in to complete the tackle. He did absolutely nothing wrong. I really can't believe that he got a warning letter.

Can i just mention, didn't Ryan Bailey get held up in a takle this season whilst a certain James Graham went full speed into Bailey's ribs?

Could this have broken Baileys ribs? Was there a 10 page thread on the Leeds site?????

No, but there was a 1000 page thread on here when the london player nearly took Tompkins head off

Bit different!!!

Completing a tackle, or purposefully trying to knock someone out by elbowing a running lad in the face!

Jog on.