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Message: [QUOTE="Twiztid, post: 2461417, member: 2144"] By that idea - we will have to ban players actually running the ball, incase the tackling player gets into the wrong position and gets concussed. We also better stop kicking the ball as a few players in the past have been knocked out and concussed for taking a clean shot to the melon from a driving kick. We might even have to stop tackling all together due to many players have been knocked out from players just sticking their arms out when out of position and hitting the player in the right spot to knock them out. Personally when they are done right, they are amazing highlights. Also going from the stats on the NRL site, they were rarely done in the amount of tackles completed for the 2012 season and only a small fraction of those actually hit high. So I can't see why with those stats they needed to go this direction. The simple method should have been, you set the standard for the ban for performing it wrong, 5 weeks for a shoulder charge that makes contact with the head. Because next year we are going to see plenty of tackles where the shoulder will hit first before the arms come around and the wrong decision of it being classed as a shoulder charge is going to be made and frankly I can see it costing teams a win. Plus head injuries need to be taken better care of. Dean Young should not have played that next week after the Inglis tackle. I am pretty sure in that match a Dragon's player was knocked out and played on for an extra 10 minutes before the trainers finally pulled him off the field. I remember putting up some concussion test benchmark they have to reach before they can train and play but instead of that, it should be a mandatory week or 2 off. [/QUOTE]

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