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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3263811, member: 9853"] [I][B]Trent Barrett:[/B][/I] “I played, I knew I was going to get hit in the head or neck occasionally, I’m fine with that. There’s no thuggery in the game anymore, it’s not like the 1980s. There are no swinging arms and elbows. Occasionally there will be contact there, nobody goes out to do it. It’ll turn into a game of Oztag, if that’s what they want and that’s the concern for us. You keep changing the rules, who knows where it’ll end up.” [I][B]Trent Robinson:[/B][/I] "We need to get better at not hitting players in the head. It’s been a bit over the top. But it will recalibrate after this weekend because there has been such an uproar about it. We also need to recalibrate our height of our tackle.” [I][B]V’landys:[/B][/I] “I’m not taking a backward step. It’s short-term pain for long-term gain. It will kill the game if we don’t get tough on foul play and particularly contact with the head. And while this is a decision by the commission, I did speak to [B]Wayne Bennett[/B] in Brisbane who he himself said, ‘stay strong — we need this to happen for the entire game.’ " "And that’s the point, unless we do something now we’re going to be paying in the long run. At the end of the day, we’re just implementing the rules. They’re not new rules. You’ve never been allowed to hit someone in the head. It’s always been there — it’s just that we’ve always taken a light approach to it. Well not anymore. We’re going to eradicate foul play. I personally felt sick for Drew Hutchison (after suffering a punctured lung) — imagine the pain he was in for three or four days. As an administrator, we’ve got to eradicate that.’’ “I’m open to looking at five-minute sin bins with the commission, but we have looked at in the past. And so at this stage it’s not on the agenda. We’ll stick to 10 minutes.’’ McHunt [/QUOTE]

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