Looking at Smith's hands as he goes to ground is interesting - both hands seem to be trying to grab a hold of Hartley's sleeve as he starts to fall.Tiger_in_Birmingham wrote:Never been hit hard on the nose/chin? Especially when it's rising and driving up into the eyes? Doesn't matter how hard it is or how much damage is done, your knees melt from under you. Smith goes down (you even see his left knee buckle), rolls onto his front and gets up holding his nose within 3 or 4 secondsjenks wrote:Dive. No question. Smith has been watching too much Wendy ball. Hartley was wrong but you could see Smith winding him up. We would all have done the same under the heat of the game. Most of the 'holier than thou' posters have obviously never played a competitive contact sport.
Look at one of the last punches Julian threw against Sheridan, he dropped lack a sack but sprang up again, falling over isn't necessarily diving.
It looks to me exactly like someone trying to keep themselves up and nothing like someone diving to the ground.
