Ah. That explains the snowflakery on behalf of DDD.

Never got the hump, just defending a real good guy

2 game ban for Flower

Partington is on a Grade D charge which has been referred to tribunal.

That prop rotation will be in full flow now.

On numerous occasions yesterday we had 2 players holding up an opponent whilst a third attacked the legs. I cringe every time I see it. Re Flower, his approx 10 metres gained yesterday won’t be missed imo.

I recall not thinking the Flower one was too bad but there was one in the second half, down towards the North Stand that looked a shocker. I guess that was Partingtons and it sounds like he’s on for 3-5 games.

About right to be fair. Is Partington’s similar to Flowers?

Someone injured Mulhearn I think in the same way. It’s got to stop.

I’m sat here wondering where the social media and general uproar is for Oliver Partington given it was allegedly far worse? I’m just shocked no ones started a GoFundMe page or petition to Parliament yet....

Its because its not Ben Flower

Been brought through the wigan school of thuggery

The art of the crusher or cannonball tackle are only taught in the Wigan school of thuggery, no other player has ever attempted this before.

According to a post on the VT we actively encourage it

I always like to think that should one of these cannonball or crusher type tackles result in one of our lads being seriously injured, a broken back for example, that the VT would be up in arms and we’d see a 30 page thread bemoaning it, just like we see if a Wigan player makes one of these tackles.

I know how fair all the guys are over there and they treat everyone, no matter their club, the same and we’d never see a thread with hardly a contribution in that circumstance of a Wigan player getting that serious injury (don’t know why but a broken back keeps coming to my mind).

Ha ha. I think we both know we'd see words being used such as karma

Does him taking you behind the bike sheds mean that??

Long may it continue, they hate us coz they aint us.

How can the wording of both offences be the same the minutes of the match review panel, but one player charged with a Grade C offence and the other a Grade D ?

Depends which school you went to

Firstly I want to say I hope the injury to the KR player is not serious and he is back on the field soon.

I can’t comment on the OP one as I’ve not seen it.

I can’t stand these tackles, they make me cringe. For me Flower has got off lightly with 2 matches.

To be clear I don’t think this is not a generic issue with the 3rd man in it is how the 3rd man enters the tackle. Flower was reckless with the amount of force he used to bring the KR player down. He needs to be far more controlled than what he was.

As for the VT, just ignore the minority of idiots making generalisations bit the criticism of the individual though OTT is fair.

Flower has been on the decline for a few years. Last year my only memory of him is standing up from a tackle pulling his face at the referee. I can't remember a single run or tackle that stood out. Add the cheap shots to his lack of effectiveness, that's when he's not injured, his time is definitely coming to an end, especially with the young lads chomping at the bit.

Let's be honest, that was a complete sh*thouse tackle.

Very dangerous and completely and utterly unnecessary.

Aye, he screwed the pooch on that one. He should be banned for it, and he will be, along with Partington, who doesnt seem to have his own thread despite the tackle being worse.

He'll probably be in a home in his 80's and still getting abuse hurled at him over his red card at OT

Haven't seen a vid of the Partington one, which might explain why it is getting less comment.

If it's demonstrably worse than Flower's it must be a pretty bad one.

There is a video on twitter, it’s not the best quality but I’d say it’s worse than Flowers, he comes from a real distance and uses more force. At least Flower attacked the back of the knees at the bend, Oli looks like it was side on.