are the IRB nuts ?
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
I am/was too - but why this thread?
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One of my mates became a quadriplegic a couple years ago after a car accident and watching that video of Alex and that tackle makes me feel ill.
I don't think there was anything outrageously wrong with the tackle, it was more a combination of a few different factors that lead to what happen'd.. But I think it does stress the need for a ref to emphasise that you can't tip a player past horizontal
I don't think there was anything outrageously wrong with the tackle, it was more a combination of a few different factors that lead to what happen'd.. But I think it does stress the need for a ref to emphasise that you can't tip a player past horizontal
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Jimmy Flynn (14)
The conversation was about TK's tackle, which shares some similarities to the tackle on Alex which resulted in his awful injury
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
Accident? Bullshit - the NRL has become a place where martial arts techniques designed specifically to inflict pain and disabled a player are the modus operandi of teams like South Sydney and Melbourne Storm. The adjudicated "dominant tackle" has given players carte blanche to try and smash someone. Three guys picked up that kid and drove him headfirst into the ground. There was no need for the third guy to even be there.
A couple of years ago Mark Geyer on MMM Sydney was saying that if the shoulder charge was to be banned, then players should be rewarded for leg tackles, with more leniency in releasing for the next play-the-ball.
The current training for tackling - to hit and drive upwards, will lead to a percentage of tackles going wrong like this. When it was simply a matter of cheek-to-cheek and take their legs, then you dragged them to ground and the game continued as everyone rolled away.
A couple of years ago Mark Geyer on MMM Sydney was saying that if the shoulder charge was to be banned, then players should be rewarded for leg tackles, with more leniency in releasing for the next play-the-ball.
The current training for tackling - to hit and drive upwards, will lead to a percentage of tackles going wrong like this. When it was simply a matter of cheek-to-cheek and take their legs, then you dragged them to ground and the game continued as everyone rolled away.
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
absolutely agree 100%
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David Wilson (68)
And of course having 3 in the tackle makes it harder or perhaps impossible to decide who is at fault - it just becomes a mass of arms, legs and bodies, with the weight of the 3 coming down on top of the one. The prime purpose of this is to slow down the play, as it takes three tangled bodies longer to get up off the tackled player. When this weight is combined with the momentum of the ball carrier, gravity and the angle of bodies, there is a significant amount of force driving the tackled player into the ground. Combine this with wrestling and other martial arts holds you've got a problem in the making. It's a game of Russian roulette and eventually it will result in a player being seriously injured, as has happened to this young man.
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
And its why we should never be critical of a ref who sends a bloke for a lifting tackle - its a small price to pay to have the game as safe as it can be.
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