Old Feller wrote:
That type of shoulder charge is not illegal in RL but it is in RU, precisely beacause of the potential for the sort of injury that Burgess has incurred tonight.
I think that the authorities need to look into this before somebody does suffer from a broken neck or a spinal injury that could result in a player spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
I fear that is the end of the season for Burgess.
Thanks for a sensible answer to my question - I knew I'd read something about it somewhere.
It's a hard one because everybody likes to see big hits and I guess 99 times out of 100 both players come out fine.
That's one hell of an impact from the kick off with 2 players having run flat out for 50 metres between them and takes very little for it to go wrong like it did tonight