www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... Brown.html Says Lockers should be banned for 2 months!!

www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... Brown.html Says Lockers should be banned for 2 months!!

he has some fair points

He doesn't say Lockers should be banned for two months and I have to say I agree with him. Sam Tomkins gets hit very late and the worst one I can remember was Castleford away last year. Blatant, late and off the ball, but he got nothing for it. Lockers' shot was nowhere near as bad, but I honestly felt he was fortunate to stay on the field.

Edit - yes he did.

To be fair to him he does have a point about the toothless nature of the judiciary panel. The other week we saw a spear tackle go unpunished both during the game and by the panel. That offence used to be a straight red card as it can cause a broken neck.

Almost every week there is at least one player that commits an offence that carries a potential ban of between 4 and 6 games and yet most when found guilty get a small fine and a slap on the wrist.

"Brown, who believes the foul deserved a ban of up to two months."


If that deserves a ban of up to 2 months we would never have any players on the field!

I've seen it now.

I still agree with his points, but a ban of 2 months for something like that is OTT.

that would be making an example of him like he said..therefore players would think twice

I couldnt agree more about our judiciary system but up to 2 months for that is a laughable statement, Basically he is saying that, the ref, the TJ, the judiciary and 50% of fans are completely wrong!!!

But why make an example of him?? because he is bitter about sundays result, you could say that about any of the 10 or 15 players that were all accused of infringements on Sat/Sun!!

"Your game is going to end up that much slower than the NRL soon. If you believe what you read, there are more Aussie coaches coming and we're the ones that wreck it. I'll be the first to admit it.

"Your game won't be free-flowing any more. It doesn't matter to me because as a coach our job is to try to bend the rules and you certainly can bend them over here."

He is pushing it there.

8 weeks though for something like that? I'm sorry, Lockers' shot was not [ithat[/i bad. I've seen far worse.

If he feels that way then maybe he should P155 of back to Aus.

The mans credibility is shot to pieces.

If he is so adverse to violence then why is he condoning his players do it? lets be honest he aint adverse to giving his own players a slip on the sidelines.

Bitter bitter bitter

Add another one to the "mcguire has just pulled my pants down" list.

Edit - I see already Cadoo that you have added him!!

hes a c0ck, if hes team is squeaky clean then fair enough......but no team is. He should get on with his job instead of giving all these interviews.

Last year they tried to defend a player when he was taken "late" and Griffin ended up on the wrong side of a hiding. Give Lockers 2 months for a mediocre late shot, but let Mason off for a punch. Hypocrite.

The bit I don't like in the article is this: ""Over here, it's a hundred times worse. Any player can take a risk, a la O'Loughlin the other day. "

The implication being Lockers deliberately went for Robinson knowing if he caught him late it would not matter. Lockers is not that sort of player and never has been. He's barking up the wrong tree.

Coming out with stuff like that detracts from the overall point he is trying to make.

I can remember Joe Lydon getting an automatic 8 match ban for a high tackle (that John Monie thought was a great effort) and I would not mind players being found guilty of certain offences getting an automatic penalty with no interpretation of how long a ban to give.

Dave

True.

Mason punching Hansen in the BACK of the head whilst he was scrapping with another player.

Now thats cowardly

I'm of the opinion that if you turn your back to disguise your play, don't be surprised if the defender takes no chances and tackles you. This is only made the news because Robinson is 5' 7" therefore a tackle by the much taller Lockers seems worse than it actually is. Had the same play been made on Crabtree, nothing would've been said. Before any other team's fans accuse me of bias, we watch Sam getting targeted week in week out but I accept that he is an important playmaker for us so other teams will try to stop him at all costs.

I wonder who will be next?

It never fails to make me grin that list!

If i was Luke Brown i would be mortified ATM. it is like having your mum turn up at School and have a go at the lads who were picking on you.

I'm tempted, very tempted, to add Nathan Brown x2 to the list.



I'll leave it though and see what happens when we play them again in a couple of weeks.

What a load of rubbish. Fair enough if it was a really bad hit, right in the face, breaking bones, putting Robinson out of the game for the rest of the season. But it was on the chest, and Robinson got up about 30 seconds later and played the rest of the game. The only thing wrong with it was that it was about half a second late which can even be justified because Lockers was committed and Robinson turned so Lockers couldnt see that he had thrown the ball.

I thought Brown was a respectable coach but he is making himself look like a right idiot over all this, the best thing would have for him to just shut up about it, put his head down and concentrate on the big matches he has got coming up, keep quiet and let his players do the talking.

I wouldnt be surprised if O'Loughlin has an absoloute blinder on the 15th, this will give him alot of motivation no doubt about that.

So true, they are bending the rules but it is within them. You cannot blame them. I wouldn't say it ruins the game because both teams are quality. Every game we play we see awesome tries scored by us because we play awesome attacking rugby and it takes some special plays to beat us. It is not ruining the game but perhaps not allowing it to reach its potential.

As a rugby league fan for life I love tight defensive games but surely it would be better for the sport if it was quicker and high scoring, that way more newbies would get on board.

However, what we don't want is such a rapid play the ball that one team can just win a game by 60 scoring all points from QPTB.

I do think we need to protect the playmakers as well but his rant about Lockers was just silly.
Tomkins and eastmond get knocked about all the time but they take it and get on with it.

I thought he was the guy we would get support from but obviously not.

He should be spending more time looking at why his team REALLY lost and spend less time time talking to journos about a nothing hit that he thinks deserved a ridiculous ban.

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I agree with some of his comments, especially about the weak judiciary and refs but saying Lockers should be banned for 2 months is abit ridiculous.

The man's an idiot.

The referee gave the penalty (rightly)

He asked his TJ what he had seen (rightly, as he was just as unsighted as Locky was when Robinson turned his back).

The TJ reported it as "Slightly late. Contact WITH the shoulder and ON the shoulder".

Having had that report, the ref told Locky to be careful as he was a little late.

So from that, we now get the press reporting that Locky was "lectured by the referee" and we get Nathan Bitter-Brown demanding an automatic red card and an 8-week ban for what was reported as a shoulder-charge.

If that ever happens, we'll end up playing 5-a-side tag rugby, as most of each team will be sent off and those remaining will be frightened to tackle the opposition.

As for telling the world that his own so-called "enforcers" will be "looking after the little bloke" - Firstly, Brown should be the one with a ban for bringing the game into disrepute, and secondly Luke Robinson should sleep easy now that he has a couple of bigger boys to stop the nasty Wigan bullies from pinching his lunch-money.

Fook me. If I was Luke Robinson, I'd be fecking MORTIFIED.