Joined: Apr 09 2012 Posts: 1149 Location: City of Sails
tigertot wrote:There's almost no punishment the RFL could throw at Flower that could be considered too harsh, unless you are a typical small town Wigan inbred. But I remember Barry (before he was Barrie) McDermott hitting Paul Sironen with a shot that was potentially more damaging than Flower's, & he turned from a thug into the best prop of his generation. It will be interesting to see how his career pans out.
McDermott's 1994 shot on Sironen was at in at number 3 , just below Adrian Morley's high shot on Robbie Kearns which I think is still the fastest red card in international footie at 12 secs in. But you are right TT about all the wider public will ever know about this year's premier RL event was Flowers smashing someone already out on the deck
Joined: Mar 01 2002 Posts: 10969 Location: Bradbados
Sironen was brilliant, I agree.
I have fond memories of Bazza's long running feud with namesake Brian, with Brian delivering the coup de grace at the McAlpine [as was] though, obviously, it was disgusting foul play and I would never glorify anything like that..though it was well deserved..
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Joined: Mar 01 2002 Posts: 10969 Location: Bradbados
Don't think it's relevant which team benefitted from his action to be honest, what he did [or maybe more accurately, the referees reaction to it], was probably the defining moment of the game, so 'man of the match' sounds about right. If we want the award to simply go to the 'best', or most effective, player maybe we should move to the American MVP award?
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If Cassidy had not been half Morley's size the damage from that could have been unimaginable. Cassidy, Barry Mc, Flower - there must be a common denominator?
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