bishops finger wrote:Your the most penalised team and you've had the most players suspended apparently, I wonder if Smith actually took the new tackle rules seriously during preseason and worked on new tackling techniques, because looking from the outside it wouldn't appear so.
Thankfully the MRP got the Brown decision right and you can argue the Ashworths ban is harsh, but the reality is that FC players are still putting themselves in these positions when other teams seem to have got to grips with it a lot better.
Did you see the Wigan v Huddersfield game the other week? Or the attempted tackle by Matty English on Chan of Wigan in the second half?
Something happened there because English staggered away from the challenge and nearly collapsed. Players from both teams rushed to him to hold him up. After treatment he went off for a HIA which he presumably failed because he never returned and missed their game this weekend.
Now that challenge was never replayed on tv or even mentioned by the commentators. But the seriousness of his condition means something must have happened? But it just seems to be ignored by everyone?
Contrast that with the way every tackle by our players is getting scrutinised by sky/the commentators/mrp and it just isn’t on.