I know the lad in question and believe me or not but you couldn’t meet a nicer person. Honestly, he’s the sort of lad you’d be happy to marry your daughter to.
He’s absolutely devastated that he’s been caught up in an incident like this and while he knows it looks awful and will take whatever punishment he gets he was not trying to do anything dangerous or malicious.
He was trying to plant his feet and drop his body in an attempt to pull the player over but he got it completely wrong and you can see the end result.
He knows what it looks like and understands the anger at him but he wasn’t trying to hurt the player in any way.
I’d just add this, be careful with your condemnation, he’s a young family man and has been badly affected by the reactions, so much so that he’s having to take help from the RFL Rugby League cares and their welfare team.