GIO Stadium Canberra, Bruce Friday 14 July 2017 Kick-Off: 7:50pm 1. Jack Wighton 2. Nick Cotric 3. Jarrod Croker 4. Joseph Leilua 5. Jordan Rapana 6. Blake Austin 7. Aidan Sezer 8. Junior Paulo 9. Josh Hodgson 10. Shannon Boyd 11. Josh Papalii 12. Elliot Whitehead 13. Iosia Soliola Interchange: 14. Kurt Baptiste 15. Luke Bateman 16. Dave Taylor 17. Joseph Tapine 18. Michael Oldfield 19. Erin Clark 20. Clay Priest 21. Royce Hunt 1. Jason Nightingale 2. Nene Macdonald 3. Taane Milne 4. Timoteo Lafai 5. Kurt Mann 6. Gareth Widdop 7. Josh McCrone 8. Russell Packer 9. Cameron McInnes 10. Leeson Ah Mau 11. Tariq Sims 12. Joel Thompson 13. Jack de Belin Interchange: 14. Jacob Host 15. Blake Lawrie 16. Hame Sele 17. Matthew Dufty 18. Jake Marketo 19. Josh Dugan 20. Luciano Leilua 21. Paul Vaughan
So bad from the Raiders pretty much camped inside the Dragons half for the last 15 minutes of that half and only looked like scoring through one kick. You can't deny the job Ricky Stuart has dome in building the roster but I reckon they need to bring someone else in to reap the rewards of it all.
See I would have no issues with Papalii being sent to the bin there, that was reckless to say the least. Idiots will use it as justification for the ban on shoulder charges
I know that's the rule, but it's stupid. Slap a bloke and you get 10 in the bin, deliberately throw a shoulder into someones face and knock them the fuck out and it's just a pen. That's dumb as shit.
In all other grades, a punch is an instant send off and you never use the sin bin for it. The NRL have their own interpretations to many rules such as that one.
We're talking about the NRL though. But even then, how is a punch so much worse than a deliberate shoulder to the head that the punishments are so different?
There's a lot of grey area in that though. How do you know it was deliberate? Was the player falling etc ect. A punch is pretty black and white
Yeh it's really hard to judge intent in a High tackle. I thought it fell more into the reckless category than accidental so wouldn't have been mad if he got sent. I couldn't believe it didn't even go on report though.
What a fucking horrendous game of rugby league this was. Melbourne should put 60 on Canberra next week at about 75%
