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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2082162, member: 1764"] Agree. It's a trend in the game that's been there for donkeys years (that I don't like) that players celebrate when an opponent is injured in a tackle. In saying that, I have no problem with players high fiving etc if a good legitimate tackle dislodges the ball and the ball carrier isn't hurt. That's just celebrating forcing the mistake. This I disagree with. And calling it illegal is opening up the very real prospect of ball carriers falling to their knees before a tackle in the hope of getting some contact with the head and thus a penalty. The Hunt and Graham incidents this week could set a dangerous precedent that encourages that behaviour. Or worse, duck into a head high. What happened to Anasta was, in my opinion, no worse than what happened between Josh Perry and Ben Ross last weekend (head clash). And bear in mind Ross ended up in hospital. By your standpoint, Perry should've been charged with striking, and possibly Ross too. It does. To a degree. Accidental head highs, defined by such instances where a player is falling before any contact, worst case scenario should be a penalty. No report, no judiciary. Different story if a player has been hit by one player, and then falls, and a player hits them high as the second defender. But as a defender I think it's perfectly legitimate to expect your opponent to make contact with you at normal running height. And I think that will be the primary defence in Karmichael's case. HOWEVER.... I agree with John Lang that shoulder charges should be banned. I've been saying it for ages. They involve no talent, and while they might look good on the highlight reel, most coaches think of them as ineffective. And as we've seen, they can go wrong very badly, and elbows can and do come into it. Anyone remember Gavin Allen's hit on Paul Green in 1994? Shoulder charge gone wrong, superman style, and Allen copped 12 weeks for it after disassembling Green's face. Shoulder charges have been banned up to under-18s now for that reason, which probably means they'll naturally die out in the next 10 years anyway, and frankly I won't miss them. Give me one of Tonie Carroll's classical driving tackles in the midriff to a Sonny Bill shoulder charge any day of the week. [/QUOTE]

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