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Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:39 pm  
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Nah the first appeal panel agreed with the assessment that the arm wasn't taken into an unnatural range of motion which was their mistake really. You can't both agree with that and uphold the original ban because the ban was dependent on that fact. Their own verdict actually eradicated Knowles' guilt when it came to the charge levied at him, hence it was overturned. They can't just change the charge


The original Ban from the MRP didn't mention anything to with 'unnatural range of motion' or 'unnatural position'.

This is the original ban

"Dangerous Contact - Defender uses any part of their body forcefully to twist, bend or otherwise apply pressure to the limb or limbs of an opposing player in a way that involves an unacceptable risk of injury to that player."

So wether the Appeal panel mentioned unnatural position or whatever is irrelevant to the original Ban
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Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:52 pm  
I look forward to seeing whether this method of 'slowing the PTB down' is now more widely used knowing theres no cause to sanction. Id guess if you use it further down the field and not near your own try line itd only result in a penalty and not even a sin binning?
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Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:53 pm  
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The original Ban from the MRP didn't mention anything to with 'unnatural range of motion' or 'unnatural position'.

This is the original ban

"Dangerous Contact - Defender uses any part of their body forcefully to twist, bend or otherwise apply pressure to the limb or limbs of an opposing player in a way that involves an unacceptable risk of injury to that player."

So wether the Appeal panel mentioned unnatural position or whatever is irrelevant to the original Ban

The charge is the "unacceptable risk of injury" if the arm wasn't taken out of the natural range of motion then this can't exist
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Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:56 pm  
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The charge is the "unacceptable risk of injury" if the arm wasn't taken out of the natural range of motion then this can't exist

The word is risk not actual. Do we really want this to become common place in the game?
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Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:58 pm  
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The charge is the "unacceptable risk of injury" if the arm wasn't taken out of the natural range of motion then this can't exist


Of course it can, twisting a players arm behind his back even in 'natural range of motion' can cause injury. The notes even state that if Atkin hadn't have changed his position it would have been worse.

The daft thing about this whole saga is that it has happened when there was a ban which was pretty much universally accepted was warranted.

Oh and Risk doesn't mean something will happen, that's the whole point.
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Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:58 pm  
LeedsLurch wrote:
I wouldn't worry about it in the slightest. Wear your colours with pride, you may get some banter but you're inviting that by wearing your colours.
Let me put it this way, I would wear my Leeds shirt there every day without a worry. Leeds United shirt, different story


Cheers Lurch, that’s exactly what I thought. Cheers for confirming.
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Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:06 pm  
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The word is risk not actual. Do we really want this to become common place in the game?


Yes, but the risk isn't "unacceptable" if he's not pulling the arm out of normal range of movement. There is risk in every single tackle on the rugby pitch, that's just the sport. The "unacceptable" would only apply if he is twisting out of the normal range of motion, because clearly the risk of causing injury there is high. He's almost never going to injure somebody by pulling their arm within the natural range of motion
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Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:12 pm  
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Yes, but the risk isn't "unacceptable" if he's not pulling the arm out of normal range of movement. There is risk in every single tackle on the rugby pitch, that's just the sport. The "unacceptable" would only apply if he is twisting out of the normal range of motion, because clearly the risk of causing injury there is high. He's almost never going to injure somebody by pulling their arm within the natural range of motion



But again the appeal judiciary stated that it was only because catkin reacted and changed his position that the arm didn't go out of 'normal range'.

You put your arm where Atkins was and then think that there is someone twisting it - normal range of motion or not it could injure you.

It was a clear bit of fowl play that nobody seem to question when given a ban. well apart from Saints that is. The way it has subsequently been handled by the RFL is an absolute farce. For example there's no actual ruling, what happened did it get downgraded to a grade A, did the whole thing get thrown out because the appeal was flawed, I don't know why Saints fans are getting al uppity people are having a go at the RFL not Saints.
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Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:13 pm  
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Re: SL GF | St Helens (Old Trafford) : Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:14 pm  
christopher wrote:
But again the appeal judiciary stated that it was only because catkin reacted and changed his position that the arm didn't go out of 'normal range'.

You put your arm where Atkins was and then think that there is someone twisting it - normal range of motion or not it could injure you.

It was a clear bit of fowl play that nobody seem to question when given a ban. well apart from Saints that is. The way it has subsequently been handled by the RFL is an absolute farce. For example there's no actual ruling, what happened did it get downgraded to a grade A, did the whole thing get thrown out because the appeal was flawed, I don't know why Saints fans are getting al uppity people are having a go at the RFL not Saints.

The verdict was he wasn't guilty of the charge he was faced with, which is why the entire ban got overturned
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