Wane slams Leeds for Tautai tackle comments

[josie andrews]

When I talk about other clubs' players, I talk about how good they are and how they should be involved in Great Britain teams and things like that.'

Well that's a load of codswallop for a start! I have yet to hear him praise another club or its players. He talks about his own club & is very much like Tony Smith, in that they can't look the interviewer in the eye or in the face

[Owd Codger]

All gone sour with Leeds from the moment Gary Hetherington became involved with the club and as far as I am concerned, all because Wigan never signed him after a one match trial and has had a grudge against the club ever since.

I am in doubt whatsoever that it was him that got McDermott to spout off about the tackle which resulted in the Disciplinary Committee being put a position of having to cite Tautai when others have committed the same kind of tackle and not been cited.

About time that someone spoke out about the way that the Leeds club tries to run the game!

In fact, it is time that the RFL was moved away from Leeds to Huddersfield where the game was founded or perhaps even to the Manchester/Salford area where most of the media in the North is now situated.

[fozzieskem]

I don't care if other people are talking/slagging off Wigan,good let them,I'll say again it was a horrid tackle,one that could have gone oh so wrong,I have little doubt if that tackle had been on a Wigan player everyone here would have been lighting the torches and sharpening the pitchforks,rightly too,sadly it wasn't though.

[josie andrews]

Brian McDermott hits back at Shaun Wane as war of words continue


Brian McDermott refused to step back in his dispute with Wigan head coach Shaun Wane, claiming it was ‘poor form’ of the Warriors head coach to defend Taulima Tautai.

Wane accused Leeds of trying to “influence” Tautai’s disciplinary case after he was charged for dangerous contact on Adam Cuthbertson in Wigan’s defeat to Leeds last week.

The tackle was not spotted or punished during the match, but retrospective action was taken by the Match Review Panel while Brian McDermott condemned the tackle following the contest.

Wane criticised McDermott and Leeds players for their reaction to the tackle, even accusing some Leeds players of trying to get Tautai sent off.

Following Leeds’ victory over Rovers, McDermott issued a strongly-worded response to his counterpart.

“If Shaun Wane is genuinely saying don’t speak about this because we want to get away with it and he wants to continue getting away with that type of tackle, I’m coming back and saying you shouldn’t be using those type of tackle techniques.

“I don’t want to see those techniques, What Tautai does is a legal version, he tries to pin the legs, I’m presuming. I do hope he’s not going in there with a carefree attitude to break his legs. I think the phrase I used is poor form, I think it’s poor form of him to put his players’ eligibility first before the game and other players’ safety.

“It’s not about Tautai, it’s not even about the disciplinary. It’s about what people in the game want to see. This is an area of the game I think we could get rid of from the game overnight by an interpretation of the rule. You can’t add on to the knee or below once someone else is in contact with the player.”

McDermott continued: ” What we’re now doing is talking about whether you can cynically break his knee when he’s not watching, when somebody else has held him up like two bullies holding him up against a wall, I think that’s a pile of c**p, and I think Shaun Wane trying to defend his player is very poor form.

“What a ridiculous sport we have at the moment where some players are scared to stand in a tackle. We all want to see offloads and second efforts in a carry, but some players are scared of getting their knees snapped. What sort of game allows that and tries to promote that?"


http://www.totalrl.com/brian-mcdermott- ... -continue/

[yokozuna]

Be interesting to hear what McDermott has to say about Ablett's eye-gouging last night...

[markill]

Taken in total isolation of all other considerations, McDermott is right about the wording of the rule as it applies to this type of tackle. It could be changed so that there's not so much need for a discussion like there has been after this one. If Tautai hits the hip/waist then that's ok, but if he hits the knee/shins then it's not ok. Then it becomes just like the assessment of a high shot, so the mistimed ones are penalised and the bad ones get a charge/ban. That would somewhat take it out of the game, then it would be about a mistimed/bad tackle rather than all this other nonsense the press and the coaches have stirred up.

[Bert's Medal]

Or Segeyaro's shoulder charge into the ribs of the Hull KR Prop which resulted in him leaving the field injured.

In terms of Ablett, in the 35th minute of last weeks match he went into a tackle on Tautai as third man, slammed into his hip and bent Tautai's knee and leg. He was still doing this while Tautai was on the floor. This could have caused serious knee damage and should have been penalised. Tautai just got up and played the ball - the Sky muppets just commented on how fired up Leeds were!

[jao711]

When I talk about other clubs' players, I talk about how good they are and how they should be involved in Great Britain teams and things like that.'

Well that's a load of codswallop for a start! I have yet to hear him praise another club or its players. He talks about his own club & is very much like Tony Smith, in that they can't look the interviewer in the eye or in the face

. Couldn't agree more Josie ,can't trust a man who won't look you in the eye.