5 points for LI,could be one of the best GP run ins ever! Good job we didn't scrap relegation or the league would be terrible...oh hang on a minute haha
"Rugby isn't a contact sport,ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport" Heyneke Meyer
I thought the Sale bloke hits the Sarries bloke with his forearm as first contact. Arm away from the body and heads whiplash causing contact? Not much different from Manu!
But what do I know.
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Felt Hislop’s sending off was extremely harsh as at full speed there is no way he could get out of the way and the Sale lad bashes into him. Hislop didn’t go in with a shoulder to the head!
Sale and Saracens won’t be caught now so it’s any team from us to possibly Bristol.
Not sure how many Gloucester will be missing next week but once we get the internationals back they have to play v Bristol and for the rest of the run in. I fear Kelly is still the player we could miss the most in the run in but at least we have put ourselves in with a chance. That’s all we could have wished for after the coaching set us was ripped to shreds and Borthwick then calling up players like Cole and Watson.
There was a case for both being carded.
Head to head contact caused by the tackler and forearm to head by the ball carrier. Not a mistimed handoff or an arm against the body.
ourla wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 10:13 am
Surely if you tackle low it takes the forearm smash out the equation?
For that I think you need time.....there wasn't any. Besides its hard go get low with someone's arm in your throat.
I dont quite agree, the carrier was running into a group of defenders, 1 tackled him low round 1 ankle he was about to fall to the ground, He fell into the upright defender who was almost part of a maul, he had very little time to either get out of the way or to go low. IMO.
