CROSS FORUM NRL 2022 Round 18 Discussion

[MrTickyMcG]

thoughts on Manu faking the injury before setting up a try.

it's on par with diving for me, but the Dragons should have played the whistle

Initially I thought it was clever. Then I thought it was dirty pool. But I don’t think he actually faked the injury, I think he just pushed through it for a final burst. If it was a fake, it’s not a good look at all

 

[Galah]

thoughts on Manu faking the injury before setting up a try.

it's on par with diving for me, but the Dragons should have played the whistle

I think it was disgusting. now someone will genuinely hurt themselves and will get pumped and it’s all his fault. I hope something comes out of this.

 

[Kimlo]

Thoughts on this?

I feel like he wasn't faking it and just got a cramp but it's also really poor form to take advantage of that situation?

 

[Foordy]

Thoughts on this?

I feel like he wasn't faking it and just got a cramp but it's also really poor form to take advantage of that situation?

Yep that's the one I was talking about.

I personally think he was faking it. He moved to freely/quickly to have any sort of cramp or injury IMO

 

[Sproj]

I think it raises issues about duty of care. Whether he faked it or not is probably not the key issue. What will happen now is that you might have a player who is genuinely injured but the defense doesn’t know and because they can’t be sure, they have to smash the bloke to make sure he is tackled and doesn’t do what Manu did there. This could severely increase the damage of an injury.

Now imagine it that’s a head injury and a player is stumbling forward. The defense doesn’t know he is really injured because he is still coincidentally moving forward albeit it with jelly legs. What’s the defense going to do? They will probably belt him because they can’t be sure. That is not what you want.

 

[Fozz]

	AlexM - nzwarriors.com
	JOINED: .February 19, 2017 MESSAGES: 3,670 REACTIONS: 8,227

---

Erin Clark having a blinder

---

His running game was always the best part of his game. Let someone else handle the rest of the dummy half play and play him as a lock.

 

[Kimlo]

I think it raises issues about duty of care. Whether he faked it or not is probably not the key issue. What will happen now is that you might have a player who is genuinely injured but the defense doesn’t know and because they can’t be sure, they have to smash the bloke to make sure he is tackled and doesn’t do what Manu did there. This could severely increase the damage of an injury.

Now imagine it that’s a head injury and a player is stumbling forward. The defense doesn’t know he is really injured because he is still coincidentally moving forward albeit it with jelly legs. What’s the defense going to do? They will probably belt him because they can’t be sure. That is not what you want.

Manu in particular, next time he looks injured he may get smashed.

I guess that's the price of playing those shit tactics.

 

[LittleDavey]

Manu in particular, next time he looks injured he may get smashed.

I guess that's the price of playing those shit tactics.

I hope he does, too. I don't think he was injured, he absolutely floored it to hit that gap - you can't do that if you're cramping up. Maybe he felt a pull in his hammy or something, again, he floored it... It's a terrible look IMO, with all the talk about duty of care etc it will absolutely be abused by the teams that play that way *cough*Penrith*cough*Melbourne*coughcough*.

Should be fined for bringing the game into disrepute. This is not soccer.

 

[Sproj]

I hope he does, too. I don't think he was injured, he absolutely floored it to hit that gap - you can't do that if you're cramping up. Maybe he felt a pull in his hammy or something, again, he floored it... It's a terrible look IMO, with all the talk about duty of care etc it will absolutely be abused by the teams that play that way *cough*Penrith*cough*Melbourne*coughcough*.

Should be fined for bringing the game into disrepute. This is not soccer.

Yep but this is the problem with constantly rewarding players who stay down, players just keep finding new ways to abuse the system.

 

[Midean]

Manu has come out and said he has had a niggling injury but that he played it up.
I like Joey, but that was a shit move from him and I called him on it as it happened earlier in the thread. Flog of a move and hope he gets poleaxed, injured or not next time he tries to pull that nonsense.

 

[Xzei]

cmon tigpies

 

[Battler]

I think it raises issues about duty of care. Whether he faked it or not is probably not the key issue. What will happen now is that you might have a player who is genuinely injured but the defense doesn’t know and because they can’t be sure, they have to smash the bloke to make sure he is tackled and doesn’t do what Manu did there. This could severely increase the damage of an injury.

Now imagine it that’s a head injury and a player is stumbling forward. The defense doesn’t know he is really injured because he is still coincidentally moving forward albeit it with jelly legs. What’s the defense going to do? They will probably belt him because they can’t be sure. That is not what you want.

Remember when people melted down at Hodges smashing an injured Morris? You’re going to see more of that after Manu’s dog act.

 

[NZWarriors.com]

	3rdstriker - nzwarriors.com
	JOINED: .November 10, 2014 MESSAGES: 579 REACTIONS: 1,211

---

What a try that could've been for the Tigers damn, I was genuinely gutted for em

---

 

[DanG]

luke brooks lol

 

[Battler]

The panthers don’t look too flash with their origin players out.

 

[Fozz]

Cmon tigers. 10 minutes to hold off the "brave Penrith battlers narrative"

 

[Super Freak]

Manu suffered a cramp. Dragons defenders drop off and Manu sees this and pushes through the cramp to score. Manu was genuinely hurt as he went down after that, but still saw the Dragons defenders relaxing and saw an opening.

It was clever. Play to the whistle.

 

[Fozz]

FFS Tigers