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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 2775708, member: 1899"] Actually, I somehow forgot the main thrust of the point I was making. One of the points that was made, a point that really annoyed me, was that the Kahu no try shouldn't have been given because Hurrell didn't injure Kahu. That right here, an opinion I heard and read numerous times on the weekend, sums up how backwards thinking Rugby League is. For once, the game was being proactive. There's no confusion, you can't kick at a player when they have possession of the football and instead they want to muddy the waters until somebody gets hurt. I said last week I didn't want to get into the Ennis & Wighton shoulder charge incident because I knew it was just going to spoil my enthusiasm for the contest. The whole situation stunk, it stunk as soon as Ennis got off and it only got worse when Wighton was shown the same courtesy. The shoulder charge ban has been a joke since day dot, with players like Chris Sandow getting away with it because he wasn't big enough to hurt anyone. Sadly, since the NRL treated it as a joke for so long, we had an unfortunate instance where a young father lost his life because it was never drilled into the players. Unfortunately we're dealing with fossils who have the memory of gold fish. If the media doesn't like the way a game is playing out, they'll cry blue murder until they get their way. It's a joke and if they can't see how they've turned fans off their game, they're incredibly blind as well. As others have said, as a product, there's nothing better than a quality game of intense fast-paced hard-hitting skillful Rugby League. Unfortunately it's at the mercy of too many self-obsessed yuppies who have no vision for the game and they're only concerned about protecting their own reputations. [/QUOTE]

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