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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2576262, member: 1764"] Answering purely the injury vs punishment issue, clearly there has to be consideration of whether the actions of the defenders was the sole cause of the injury. In this case I don't think anyone can say that. As for the tackle itself, I've only managed to watch it once, it's too difficult to watch repeatedly. The hand was between the legs doing lifting, which is part of the "KPI" of a "dangerous throw" charge. But given the lift didn't go beyond the horizontal that I could see, and there was no driving of the player, or reckless dropping of the player, I can't see how it'll be a charge at all, and at worst a grade 1. It's just a really unfortunate accident and I think it's really wrong to lump blame on the Storm or the players for this. I doubt many people feel worse about this than McLean. I do hope the NRL review the topic of lifting legs in a tackle in the offseason. I don't want them to do a kneejerk ban on them right now, but it definitely needs review. Because there are times where a player is held by 2 guys, arms pinned, and someone lifts the leg and that does create a really uncontrolled fall/pile on effect. This is as extreme a case as you'll get of those factors, but from my perspective there's no benefit to lifting the leg of the player other than to make them fall, get tangled and slow the play the ball. To my mind it doesn't require a new judiciary charge, but it should probably be a penalty - a bit like tackling in the air. The risk is pretty low of anything serious, but the default penalty has stopped it happening (mostly). [/QUOTE]

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