: Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:05 am  

The chicken wing tackle is wrong i hope he gets roasted at the rfl

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:51 am  

willowred wrote:

The chicken wing tackle is wrong i hope he gets roasted at the rfl

That's a FOWL joke ??? Yes

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:20 am  

Eurob0y wrote:

Diskin doesnt really strike me as a dirty player. Maybe he was just trying to roll Wheeler on to his back and got the technique wrong?

That's how I saw it but I've only seen it once.

I'm all for the RFL trying to make sure these techniques don't migrate over here from Oz. However, for me the worst offense of the game was Gilmour's "Grapple tackle with added Eye Gouge"* so why is it going unpunished!

*Despite watching this one several times on the Biff video that someone put on a well known video sharing website I can't decide if the eye gouging hand is Gilmours or another saints player (Wilkin?) - either way its a clear deliberate grapple and somebody also claws at Smiths eyes (possibly not intentional but suspicious in the replays)

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:26 am  

Eurob0y wrote:

Diskin doesnt really strike me as a dirty player. Maybe he was just trying to roll Wheeler on to his back and got the technique wrong?

Being generous that was my though. If the RFL accept them I hope they warn him strongly abolut his technique in the future. Its' not something I want to see in the game let alone from our players.

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:53 pm  

tvoc wrote:

Because in cases such as these they reveal themselves as the referee apologetic buffoons they undoubtedly are.

Interesting to see Stadler and Waldorf creaming themselves over Bentham's performance on Friday.

The same Phil Bentham who put both sides on a warning following the brawl, then immediately cr*pped out of it when the next offender just happened to be the Saints captain and put both sides on a warning again?

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:54 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Interesting to see Stadler and Waldorf creaming themselves over Bentham's performance on Friday.

The same Phil Bentham who put both sides on a warning following the brawl, then immediately cr*pped out of it when the next offender just happened to be the Saints captain and put both sides on a warning again?

During the game Stevo was calling for sin binnings, then afterwards commended Bentham for not sin binning players

Bentham may have sorted it in the end but he caused it in the first place by letting it get to the level it did without nipping it in the bud.

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:57 pm  

King Monkey wrote:

During the game Stevo was calling for sin binnings, then afterwards commended Bentham for not sin binning players

Bentham may have sorted it in the end but he caused it in the first place by letting it get to the level it did without nipping it in the bud.

Sounds about right.

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:37 pm  

King Monkey wrote:

During the game Stevo was calling for sin binnings, then afterwards commended Bentham for not sin binning players

Bentham may have sorted it in the end but he caused it in the first place by letting it get to the level it did without nipping it in the bud.

I don't know why we're surprised at what the commentators come out with. They do have a tendancy to get caught in the moment

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:37 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Interesting to see Stadler and Waldorf creaming themselves over Bentham's performance on Friday.

The same Phil Bentham who put both sides on a warning following the brawl, then immediately cr*pped out of it when the next offender just happened to be the Saints captain and put both sides on a warning again?

I was miffed at that one too

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:40 pm  

Eurob0y wrote:

Diskin doesnt really strike me as a dirty player. Maybe he was just trying to roll Wheeler on to his back and got the technique wrong?

I don't think Andy Farrell would agree.