I'm beginning to dislike agreeing with you

But there again, no mention of Crabtree.

Quote ="hullbg"Looking at the incident again www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 0QOHKjNiTE (Official SL highlights link) it makes Andersons statement of a shoulder charge to the head look foolish. Will he be forthcoming with an apology to Ellis or the "muppets"'" Charged with a grade B offence, so why should Anderson apologise for one of team being knocked out and the officials waving play on for the opposition to score and even the game up? Truly am at a loss

Quote ="hullbg"Looking at the incident again www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 0QOHKjNiTE (Official SL highlights link) it makes Andersons statement of a shoulder charge to the head look foolish. Will he be forthcoming with an apology to Ellis or the "muppets"'" Charged with a grade B offence, so why should Anderson apologise for one of team being knocked out and the officials waving play on for the opposition to score and even the game up? Truly am at a loss

Because it's the wrong decision.

Perhaps for calling the officials muppets? Whether right or wrong that's out of order.

Anderson said it was an attack to the head . It wasn't. He said it was a blatant shoulder charge . It wasn't. He was correct in saying the game should have been stopped though.

It it wasn't a attack to the head, how did Ellis knock Robinson out?

Why have the RFL charged Ellis with a grade B offence?

As I said because the RFL are the RFL.

Because he couldn't take the hit that Ellis gave, most people can't when he connects like that. And the RFL have it wrong.

I suspect you already know what a stupid comment that is. Or at least I hope you do for your own sake.

It could easily have been a whiplash injury, with no direct contact to the head.

The trauma to Robinson would have been the same, but there would have been no penalty, and Ellis would not have been charged.

Contact with the head doesn't have to be an "attack". What actually knocked Robinson out, Dr Birkby?



Does god exist?

Will FC ever win at Wembley?

One of life's great mysteries, I'm afraid.

because of andersons' outburst!

have you seen the tackle, robinson wasn't looking and ducked into ellis, it wasn't a attack to the head, it was poor play by robinson imo! no shoulder was used! I expect fc to challenge the decision

Ellis' chest makes contact with Robinson's shoulder, that causes a whiplash effect, and throws his head into Ellis' chest knocking him out.

It's that simple.

Anderson's protecting his player, he has every right to do that, but the muppet comment was too far. He's just made himself look a muppet, really.

I can't see how you can criticise Anderson for his post match comments, he made a fair comment on what he'd seen and does not need to apologise IMO, with maybe the exception of calling 2 officials at either end of the ground muppets.

Good luck on Saturday, you'll need it big style if you're going to get too many decisions in France.

That was the bit he got right

Joke decision. It's rugby league. It's hard it's physical. Robinson wanted all the time in the world. Ellis has smashed him as you would expect balls loose game on. If your banning stuff like that it's time to wind the game up and close it down.

I couldn't agree more it wont be Hull's woes that stop me watching RL but it could well be the way the game is heading. An absolute joke. Hull should contest it strongly - what's the difference between one match and two where we're at right now.

honestly there is some biased opinions on here, pause the highlights at 3.49 and you can clearly see that ellis has hit the back of luke robinsons head, and i don't know where the rubbish that he's ducking come from as ellis hit him on the blind side. Also for the person who said that wouldn't be a ban in the NRL it has already happened this season twice to sam burgess and he didn't make direct contact to the head unlike ellis, that will be a 2-3 match ban easy. its impossible to put a legal big hit on burrow or robinson as you would have to start low to the ground and come up and ellis didn't even bend hes back with that tackle.

Rubbish. I'm happy to see justice done when needed.Robinson is dithering, any player worth anything would take the opportunity to put a shot on and try force an error. He's gone to grab him but impact shoots him forward. Tough titties. It's rugby league. Or it was. The origin fight debacle, the banning of the shoulder charge n now tackles like this being worth 2 matches makes you wonder where rl is heading. It could rightly claim to be one of the toughest games there is(ironically one of its best selling points) Not for much longer if the constant and speeded up sanitizing of the game continues. I'm angry it's our player. I'd be sad if it was another teams player. The sport I love is being fundamentally broken down and being altered into something else.!!

Lol. I'm loving the attempt at justification- I'm pretty sure if taai took out lineham in a similar manner the story would be different. All except hull fans think the decision to charge him is correct- all this fuss. Does his shoulder hit him in his shoulder first? Hmmm. What about his left hand which is above shoulder height.
Stop your whining- of you spent as much time getting behind your side as whining about how badly done to you are you might actually inspire them to win a game!

im not arguing that game is being over sanitized, and origin is a completely different argument its so popular because you know there would be fights and big hits thats why the NRL are struggling to find a happy medium and not referee it differently from any other NRL match. BUT ellis has put in a bad tackle where he's shoulder has made direct contact with robinson's head and should be banned, he hasn't even made an attempt tackle him below he's shoulder or he would of at least bent down a little bit. I doubt he will get less than a 2 game ban.

Interested to hear your take on Crabtree's shoulder charge in Miller.

How's your knowledge of dead ball scenarios coming on ?

gardner fell into mullally and we still got our try chalked off and a penalty to saints! just how it is, think yourself lucky you got a try out of it