Official Dale Finucane

[Pishposh46]

Legit came over the top and hit flush.


Moylan should look at Feldt. Stay down should of dropped the ball after impact for a penalty try.

I remember when Australia v Italy in the World Cup soccer and the bloke took a dive and footy boys saying what a weak ****.

Now look at the diving in the sport

Easy there...Fabio Grosso never dived. Lucas Neil shouldn't have gone down early. Lol Forza Italia

 

[Greg86]

Easy there...Fabio Grosso never dived. Lucas Neil shouldn't have gone down early. Lol Forza Italia

Hahah that just one that stuck out to me.

 

[Pishposh46]

Hahah that just one that stuck out to me.

Haha...I was saying it with tongue in cheek. I got to admit Italy got a bit lucky there.

 

[egg]

Him and

he also lifted his forearm directly in Murrays head later on too
suspiciously the same guy

Him and JWH get away with MURDER week in week out

 

[Sir Chadley]

Good luck to the club and Dale tonight.

I am hoping we are successful but a few things worry me.

• Dale did fly out of the line which could be deemed careless
• Crichton was injured pretty bad from the incident and the judiciary may feel they need to punish the action
• And at the moment with the NRL and their processes, you just don't know which way they are going to go.

 

[HaroldBishop]

Good luck to the club and Dale tonight.

I am hoping we are successful but a few things worry me.

• Dale did fly out of the line which could be deemed careless
• Crichton was injured pretty bad from the incident and the judiciary may feel they need to punish the action
• And at the moment with the NRL and their processes, you just don't know which way they are going to go.

We're not the Roosters, we'll probably lose.

 

[Sir Chadley]

We're not the Roosters, we'll probably lose.

Yes mate. But everyone that has talked about it on radio or in the media say that it's an accidental head clash. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Proud Shark]

My biggest concern is that the NRL have already had to admit they were wrong once this week.

 

[HaroldBishop]

My biggest concern is that the NRL have already had to admit they were wrong once this week.

Good point

 

[Thresher]

and Specsavers have threatened to withdraw their sponsorship because you can't wear glasses without ears


only kidding

 

[HaroldBishop]

and Specsavers have threatened to withdraw their sponsorship because you can't wear glasses without ears


only kidding

That's not like you mate

 

[Bundy Shark]

Good luck to the club and Dale tonight.

I am hoping we are successful but a few things worry me.

• Dale did fly out of the line which could be deemed careless
• Crichton was injured pretty bad from the incident and the judiciary may feel they need to punish the action
• And at the moment with the NRL and their processes, you just don't know which way they are going to go.

I know you are throwing up potential hypotheticals but it’s a dangerous path & precedent the NRL are setting themselves up for, to a man, or every NRL fan, Shark fan or not, firstly, this was purely accidental.

I understand sometimes a player can accidentally clip someone high with a swinging arm, player falling etc, this is not one of them, to me, this is the higher end of potential suspension.

Then there is the contact with the head via a a shoulder (not a shoulder charge) but just a shoulder, to me, this is even less deliberate than a accidental swinging arm.

Which brings me to Dale, this was a head on head contact, this, to me, is just about as much of an accidental with head contact as you can get, to make it even better for Dale, he wasn’t charging at the ball carrier head down, he was going in with an upright or slightly braced position like 99.999999999% of players do every week, every season.

Was he going at full tilt, yes, but since when is it not acceptable to go into a tackle as hard as you can, since when does the NRL think it has the right to adjudicate what level of force someone should attempt a tackle in a ‘hit up’ situation.

This was purely accidental, it looked spectacular because of Dales arm swinging around (not making contact with anything) just because of his speed & momentum, what has created hysteria is the ear of Crichton, once again, the NRL are trying to appear PC, if Dale gets suspended for this the NRL are opening a can of worms almost on a weekly basis with head contact moving forward.

 

[Sparkles]

I know you are throwing up potential hypotheticals but it’s a dangerous path & precedent the NRL are setting themselves up for, to a man, or every NRL fan, Shark fan or not, firstly, this was purely accidental.

I understand sometimes a player can accidentally clip someone high with a swinging arm, player falling etc, this is not one of them, to me, this is the higher end of potential suspension.

Then there is the contact with the head via a a shoulder (not a shoulder charge) but just a shoulder, to me, this is even less deliberate than a accidental swinging arm.

Which brings me to Dale, this was a head on head contact, this, to me, is just about as much of an accidental with head contact as you can get, to make it even better for Dale, he wasn’t charging at the ball carrier head down, he was going in with an upright or slightly braced position like 99.999999999% of players do every week, every season.

Was he going at full tilt, yes, but since when is it not acceptable to go into a tackle as hard as you can, since when does the NRL think it has the right to adjudicate what level of force someone should attempt a tackle in a ‘hit up’ situation.

This was purely accidental, it looked spectacular because of Dales arm swinging around (not making contact with anything) just because of his speed & momentum, what has created hysteria is the ear of Crichton, once again, the NRL are trying to appear PC, if Dale gets suspended for this the NRL are opening a can of worms almost on a weekly basis with head contact moving forward.

Everyone will start tackling like a hooker... give them an initial nudge to slow the ballrunner down until other players can drag him to the ground.

It's all such a weird contrast in stance to Game 3 of SOO - 'the greatest game of football we've ever seen'. Where blokes were getting knocked out will nilly. You'll see this in the finals, I'm sure of it... Origin rules will come into effect again and we'll be celebrating the broken cheeks, smashed teeth, blodied faces and high speed collisions like it's the best part of the game. They'll be put in all the promo's and wistfully talked about for years to come... then give a bloke 2-3 weeks on the sidelines for doing it in a regular season game.

 

[Sevshark]

Still curious how this is completely legal vs Dale's head clash in the MRC's eyes.

 

[Proud Shark]

Still curious how this is completely legal vs Dale's head clash in the MRC's eyes.

The outcome. That's it. If Olam split someones ear open instead you'd probably see them reversed.

 

[Sevshark]

The outcome. That's it. If Olam split someones ear open instead you'd probably see them reversed.

Which is why we should ask the question tonight.

Dale makes accidental contact.
Olam makes no attempt to hit him with anything but his head.

I know which one I would be more concerned with.

 

[Shortfin Mako]

Still curious how this is completely legal vs Dale's head clash in the MRC's eyes.

Isn't this tackling in the air?

 

[Six Again]

I know you are throwing up potential hypotheticals but it’s a dangerous path & precedent the NRL are setting themselves up for, to a man, or every NRL fan, Shark fan or not, firstly, this was purely accidental.

I understand sometimes a player can accidentally clip someone high with a swinging arm, player falling etc, this is not one of them, to me, this is the higher end of potential suspension.

Then there is the contact with the head via a a shoulder (not a shoulder charge) but just a shoulder, to me, this is even less deliberate than a accidental swinging arm.

Which brings me to Dale, this was a head on head contact, this, to me, is just about as much of an accidental with head contact as you can get, to make it even better for Dale, he wasn’t charging at the ball carrier head down, he was going in with an upright or slightly braced position like 99.999999999% of players do every week, every season.

Was he going at full tilt, yes, but since when is it not acceptable to go into a tackle as hard as you can, since when does the NRL think it has the right to adjudicate what level of force someone should attempt a tackle in a ‘hit up’ situation.

This was purely accidental, it looked spectacular because of Dales arm swinging around (not making contact with anything) just because of his speed & momentum, what has created hysteria is the ear of Crichton, once again, the NRL are trying to appear PC, if Dale gets suspended for this the NRL are opening a can of worms almost on a weekly basis with head contact moving forward.

I don't believe the politicians' approach of saying " it was accidental " or " was only trying to change the momentum " enough times to make it "fact" will work on this occasion .

Even if Crichton only cut his ear when he hit the ground or it was caused by the wind gush of the swinging arm at the speed of sound it was still the result of an aggressive defensive action at speed that got out of control , not the result of accidental impact in normal course of the game .

Finucane was lucky his swinging arm didn't connect & so was Crichton , otherwise he would be missing more than some of his ear.

This was Radley style ultra aggressive defensive approach & will probably end up with a similar time-off result that Radley has regularly received in recent seasons.

If it was Radley , JWH or Lodge in this instance I am sure all on the forum would be complaining about no penalty , no on-report , no sin bin or sent off .

If the NRL are serious about protecting players Finucane can only hope for a downgrade .

 

[Sir Chadley]

Tonight there is either going to be immense relief and raging celebrations or there is going to be a meltdown.

 

[HaroldBishop]

I don't believe the politicians' approach of saying " it was accidental " or " was only trying to change the momentum " enough times to make it "fact" will work on this occasion .

Even if Crichton only cut his ear when he hit the ground or it was caused by the wind gush of the swinging arm at the speed of sound it was still the result of an aggressive defensive action at speed that got out of control , not the result of accidental impact in normal course of the game .

Finucane was lucky his swinging arm didn't connect & so was Crichton , otherwise he would be missing more than some of his ear.

This was Radley style ultra aggressive defensive approach & will probably end up with a similar time-off result that Radley has regularly received in recent seasons.

If it was Radley , JWH or Lodge in this instance I am sure all on the forum would be complaining about no penalty , no on-report , no sin bin or sent off .

If the NRL are serious about protecting players Finucane can only hope for a downgrade .

I think Dale's arm swinging was a result of the initial contact. If have to watch it again though.