Aldo
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Tremendous defensive effort. Kept turning up when under the pump.Sounds like I missed a spirited defensive performance.
Were the Broncos too good or were the Panthers awful?
Tremendous defensive effort. Kept turning up when under the pump.Sounds like I missed a spirited defensive performance.
Were the Broncos too good or were the Panthers awful?
I agree with them. You call time off when the play is over. If the teams were reversed fans on here would be ropeable.
It was a call from a players welfare perspective ... anything could have been wrong with him, the ref had no choice despite what Fitler thinks.
do you realise the sort of legal trouble that the NRL and the ref would have been in if he didn't stop play only for it to come back over the top of Oates and seriously injure him (maybe even permanently)
I don't applaud the refs often anymore, but he 100000000% made the right call and i would hope he would make the same call if the situation was reversed and it was a Panthers player down
Sounds like I missed a spirited defensive performance.
Were the Broncos too good or were the Panthers awful?
Player welfare should not be paramount
Given standard practice is stopping the play for injuries once the present play is over - they wouldn't be in any legal trouble what so ever.
I take your point but disagree. Part of what makes the game popular is that it is a bit gladiatorial. And the players make an above average income because of that popularity. Playing on in the situation we saw tonight is all part of the players accepting the risks of rugby league, taking the money and giving the fans value for money. Player welfare should not be paramount but definitely a consideration. And the game does make it a consideration by generally stopping play for KOs when the play is over.
Exactly, end of the day it's a fucking game, or a "job". If I was potentially seriously injured at work, or my family member, or a friend was, I'd be pretty fucking pissed if they just ignored that for 30 seconds just in case they score a sale or something. Probably a bad analogy, but welfare comes first, **** the game.
Hunt made 44 tackles. OMFG
Don't care, it's still a job. Life outweighs any job, normal or otherwise.It's not a normal job though. Like boxing the players accept risk of injury when they go out onto the field.
I'm of mixed opinion of the Oates incident. I understand the reason for stopping the play and don't blame the refs for doing it, but do concede it was a tough call for Penrith. But atleast it was a tough call made for the right reasons, the players safety. We've seen a player die, one made a quadriplegic and another see his career end at its height. Those things make a lost try a small matter.
There's a difference between having no danger in the game, and how you respond to potentially serious/life threatening injuries.We could always make the game touch rugby league if you want to make player safety absolutely paramount. It's a slippery slope.
It's not a normal job though. Like boxing the players accept risk of injury when they go out onto the field.
Wow this is a new low for this fucking professor show, this is just awful.