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Message: [QUOTE="subsbligh, post: 2081912, member: 1950"] It will be very interesting to see the NRL judiciary's response to all the high shots over the weekend. I think it will work against Hunt and the judiciary outcome of the weekend's 3 shots (Ross, Graham and Hunt) will out doubtedly provide the precedent interpretation of this no contact with head rule. Given that I think the NRL wants to erradicate or minimise such contact to the head, I think Hunt may be in trouble. I don't think they can use Ross and Graham's hits as examples of what not to do and then say Hunt's hit is what you can do which is essentially what will happen if he gets off. That is, players will think a shoulder charge contact to the head if it is, or is made to look, unintentional is legal. From the outset let me say that I think Karmichael Hunt is anything but a dirty player and he has in all aspects of his play shown that he is a good sportsman and a great ambassador for the game and the Broncos. I personally think that it was a shot that looked horrible but when I watched it my gut instinct was that Hunt could not have done anything else because Anasta slipped. In many aspects it is similar to the shot that got put on Hunt on his test debut when he got knocked out. The alternative is that I think it was careless for him to turn away from the player (if you look at the pictures) with the intent of shoudler charging him and then face the judiciary and say Anasta slipped and it wasn't my intention to hit him and I have no responsibility to the player being tackled in that situation. To play devil's advocate I think there is an argument to suggest that he was falling and Hunt saw it as a chance to put a good shot on which may look unintentinal. The judiciary will try to argue that at the split second when Hunt saw Anasta slip he had an opportunity to recoil the shot (which regretably I think is true) but chose to either go through with the shot or put himself in a position where he didn't care about the outcome both of which are illegal tackles. It will be unfortunate if he does get time on the sidelines but here's hoping [/QUOTE]

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