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I personally think there wasn't much in the Sam Powell incident. He's not a malicious player and I think it's abit ridiculous how players are getting put on report for the slightest thing lately.
It's rugby league, not football!!

Barney841 wrote:I personally think there wasn't much in the Sam Powell incident. He's not a malicious player and I think it's abit ridiculous how players are getting put on report for the slightest thing lately.
It's rugby league, not football!!

Refs actually use the on report option a lot less these days, was rare to see it used twice in a weekend let alone twice in a match (and I don't think they have on report in football).

I think it was a slightly poorly timed third man tackle, he went in just a little lower than he'd wanted to. But that sort of tackle if mistimed can cause injury so it's right to pull it up in my opinion.

markill wrote:

Barney841 wrote:I personally think there wasn't much in the Sam Powell incident. He's not a malicious player and I think it's abit ridiculous how players are getting put on report for the slightest thing lately.
It's rugby league, not football!!

Refs actually use the on report option a lot less these days, was rare to see it used twice in a weekend let alone twice in a match (and I don't think they have on report in football).

I think it was a slightly poorly timed third man tackle, he went in just a little lower than he'd wanted to. But that sort of tackle if mistimed can cause injury so it's right to pull it up in my opinion.

I was referring to the physicality of the sports, not the report side of things.
I understand the ref has a welfare of looking after the players but rugby is a physical game and you know when a tackle is malicious or not. That was attracted me to rugby, the brutality of the sport( I don't mean dirty tackles) but I just feel in this day and age there slowly taking that away.