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Message: [QUOTE="KingWebcke, post: 2522742, member: 8372"] I think that misses a large part of what a 'professional foul' is though. it isn't just if the action is deliberate, or the effectiveness of the tackle (because lets face it, Boyd definitely milked it). It is the context that it was taken in: Cronk tried to hold up Boyd because Boyd was charging for a Mullen kick and there was a significant chance of a try being scored. That is actually the important part of the decision in my opinion and what separates it from instances of a centre changing their path to block a chaser or tackling a player on suspicion. It is the same reason that you only get a penalty for holding down in the ruck but if you do the same thing as a fullback after a big line break you get sin-binned. [/QUOTE]

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