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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 3430873, member: 8215"] Oh I'm here, I haven't left. But in this case I will concede that maybe the NRL has a point. They have been warning players for a while, about this exact potential outcome if it goes bad. As much as players have been injured, had knees buggered by twisting etc, to actually have a player get a bone snapped by it shows the severity (players can **** their knees by stepping funny, they don't break bones). It just sucks that it was our guy that was the unlucky one. However, just because I can understand this decision, it absolutely does my fucking head in how the known grubs not only get away with deliberate dirty tactics, but the media defends them. I agree when people say the NRL too easily bends to the whims of the media, because it was only when certain sections of the media started drumming up outrage over the incident that the NRL decided to go in so hard against Carrigan. In reality, especially in these times where even incidental head contact causes the game to stop and everyone watch slow-mo replays to see if someone's being binned, how they can let the NAS incidents get swept away so easily is borderline criminal. And I don't mean that as hyperbole. With the potential of lifelong brain damage from concussion, when the NRL does not outright condemn such actions they are effectively enabling behavior that directly causes it. Behavior that is DELIBERATE, not incidental or careless. Considering what happened with Carrigan, where players have obviously not taken the warnings as seriously as they should have, it really should have been cracked down on way harder, way sooner. McGuire got whipped for it but even when genuine serious injury occurred, it was only when someone had their leg broken did the NRL decide to send a message. I can't help but think that by letting these deliberate grub acts go unpunished, a player is going to get a serious facial injury, or worse, someone is going to get their fucking skull cracked in. By then it will be too late for the NRL to get serious about it. [/QUOTE]

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