Shoulder Charges and Brain Injury

[Waylon]

I'm not supporting blokes shoulder charging peoples heads

I think if you charge at someone who is charging at you and you smash into them "with no arms" should be OK. I don't see a problem with it and the game is worse off for not allowing it. Spectators love big hits. The scenes above are testiment to this.

For what it's worth, I played both games, enjoyed playing both games and enjoy watching both games.

Some rules that are baffling in rugby are the "deliberate knock down of a pass" being a penalty. No shoulder charges seems to be an anachronism from the amateur days when the game was played by more portly gentlemen and private schoolboys whose mummies didn't want them hurt

2c worth

 

[Inside Shoulder]

Section 10 of the Laws of Rugby League states:

KNOCK-ON AND FORWARD PASS
Deliberate 1. A player shall be penalised if he deliberately knocks
on or passes forward.

If it were possible to deliberately knock a pass down and backwards it would not be a penalty in union or league.......
As I suspect of most league lovers not only do they not know or understand the laws of union they dont have much of a clue about their preferred code either

 

[qwerty51]

Same goes for a forward pass

 

[Cave Dweller]

What about two players going for the same ball? They normally try to compete shoulder to shoulder.

 

[Inside Shoulder]

and their moving in roughly the same direction so the collision speed is low

 

[Waylon]

Section 10 of the Laws of Rugby League states:



If it were possible to deliberately knock a pass down and backwards it would not be a penalty in union or league.......
As I suspect of most league lovers not only do they not know or understand the laws of union they dont have much of a clue about their preferred code either

It's a stupid rule that you can't knock down a pass in attempting to save a try

Your assumptions are juvenile

 

[Inside Shoulder]

It's a stupid rule that you can't knock down a pass in attempting to save a try

Your assumptions are juvenile

Se we've gone from

Some rules that are baffling in rugby

To it being a rule (law) that baffles you in both codes.
Are you just here to pick fights?

 

[p.Tah]

league has finally banned the shoulder charge 'worldwide'

The Rugby League International Federation has confirmed the shoulder charge will be banned worldwide, starting with Friday's World Club Challenge in Leeds and taking in the 2013 World Cup.

http://au.eurosport.com/rugby-league/worldwide-ban-for-shoulder-charge_sto3629746/story.shtml

 

[Inside Shoulder]

league has finally banned the shoulder charge 'worldwide'




http://au.eurosport.com/rugby-league/worldwide-ban-for-shoulder-charge_sto3629746/story.shtml

Well - I never thought I'd see the words league and worldwide in the same sentence

 

[Mullos]

As more info comes out about chronic traumatic encephalopathy the more i think the human body isn't made for contact sports like rugby but even less so for NFL, NRL. As brain scans get better i suspect sport at the professional level will be able to tell better if you have an even very mild concussion instead of the swaying in the wind with your eyes closed diagnostic tool thats been used on me and have players sit out till they are well and truly ok.

 

[Dan54]

I actually wondered why anyone would want a shoulder charge to be allowed in game, I always reckoned shoulder charging was taking easy way out, and usually because the player is scared to tackle properly in case they get hurt. Lets face it when someone runs hard at you, it probably hurt less if you turn shoulder into them than take them head on. Lot of it is just bad tackling technique when trying to tackle properly.