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Message: [QUOTE="Sproj, post: 3451921, member: 8423"] What a load of rubbish. If you are going to penalise that tackle, you would be penalising every second tackle a player ends up on his back. Secondly, if you are going to hand out suspensions for 3-4 weeks for that and be consistent, you aren’t going to have a competition because every single forward will be out for multiple weeks at a time. This rule was bought in to stop actual crusher tackles, you know the DELIBERATE putting pressure on another player’s neck. What Matterson did is clumsy at worst and even that I’d debate. He certainly didn’t deliberately apply pressure. As soon as the neck even got stuck, for a literal split second, he immediately released pressure as he realises it is an awkward tackle. So now players can’t put a player to the ground who is backing into the defensive line, they can’t tackle around the legs because that could result in a cannonball (which is right by the way) and players can’t tackle around the shoulders and can’t tackle too hard because of these get penalised. I didn’t watch any finals but I bet you you wouldn’t have to look too hard to find probably a dozen or more of similar tackles where players are backing into the defense across the finals series that are basically the same as that Matterson one and went unpunished. And guess what, every single tackle has the potential to cause injury so should the MRC crack down on every single tackle ever? Goodness me, a player stepping has the potential to injure a defender, should any player who steps be cracked down on? [/QUOTE]

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