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That 2005 BOD Spear tackle.... Some thoughts 7 years later?
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<blockquote data-quote="Zed" data-source="post: 527184" data-attributes="member: 38503"><p>I agree. They were pretty ****. </p><p></p><p>Re the BOD incident - it should have been 2 x reds, there's no debate. If they were Australians doing the tackling I would have said the same thing. It's a contact sport, people get injured and I always try and hit my man as hard as I can when defending, but there is no malice, no intent to seriously injure and I've twice held a guy upside down preventing him from getting spear tackled. I'd be horrified if I seriously injured someone. I don't think you can say the same for Umaga and Melamu. What made the incident worse was, they did not seem contrite, the linesman was right there to see the incident and did nothing and even with all the video evidence there was no punishment. And as far as moving on as it was 7 years ago, well we are still to this day reminded regularly about Chappells underarm bowl and that was 31 years ago!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zed, post: 527184, member: 38503"] I agree. They were pretty ****. Re the BOD incident - it should have been 2 x reds, there's no debate. If they were Australians doing the tackling I would have said the same thing. It's a contact sport, people get injured and I always try and hit my man as hard as I can when defending, but there is no malice, no intent to seriously injure and I've twice held a guy upside down preventing him from getting spear tackled. I'd be horrified if I seriously injured someone. I don't think you can say the same for Umaga and Melamu. What made the incident worse was, they did not seem contrite, the linesman was right there to see the incident and did nothing and even with all the video evidence there was no punishment. And as far as moving on as it was 7 years ago, well we are still to this day reminded regularly about Chappells underarm bowl and that was 31 years ago! [/QUOTE]
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