Dunbar

Yes, I have read it several times. And they considered the position of Namo's knee to be unacceptable while executing the tackle and therefore recklessly causing the injury to Isa. My point, which I have made several times, is whether we will see any referrals and bans for any other player having his knee in the position that Namo had but doesn’t either 1) result in the contact with the ankle of the tackled player or 2) contacts the tackled players ankle but does not cause injury. If neither of these cases come about and a player’s knee makes contact the ankle of a player that he tackles and there is no penalty, charge or ban, then Namo has been banned for the injury. My question to you is – if a tackler contacts a players ankle with his knee moving forward while executing an otherwise legal tackle, is that going to be called a foul?

Your not making any friends on here with that statement!

I guess. But I feel for players (forwards in particular, but I am bias) that play one of the fastest and hardest physical sports in the world for 80 minutes with players charging into each other and enduring tackles that have the force of a car crash... and then get banned for having their knee in an unacceptable position when making an otherwise legitimate tackle.

Reading through the minutes, the ‘prosecution’ said that the tackle was akin to a 'drop tackle' although it wasn't a drop tackle and that Namo made legal initial contact but then did not moderate his contact thereafter in order to prevent the injury and that his knee was in an unacceptable position. He has been banned for applying the pressure with his knee to Isa’s ankle and essentially not stopping himself from applying pressure to the ankle with his knee which was in an ‘unacceptable position’ while he was making what was otherwise a legitimate tackle. But once again, I go back to the first principle – what law of the game has Namo broken with this tackle? In essence, he has been banned for injuring Isa, not for breaking the laws of the game. That is a really strange position for our game to be in.

Not at all, just that I am in my 5th decade of watching Rugby League and I didn't know that a knee being in an unacceptable position was a foul.

Come on, not once in a generation... that's only 20 or 30 years... once in a lifetime!

Will we see other players penalised and banned for their knee's being in an unacceptable position I wonder.

It's the rules of the Internet. It's not your opinion if you give your opinion and then state it is an 'absolute fact' afterwards. Your opinions magically turn into facts.

I'm not sure he would get a run in the centre or wing unless the Knights had a pretty deep injury crisis. If Ponga has a spell on the sidelines, you would expect Pryce to be in the mix for back up #1 but I think his chance will come when (if!) Adam O'Brien finally recognises that Cogger and Hastings are too similar and Gamble is bobbins and he finally puts Pryce at 6 next to either Cogger or Hastings as a game management 7.

Manu is one of many good players in the NRL but not even close to a once in a lifetime player. In fact, I am watching the Roosters Storm game now (or working, depending on who is asking) and Manu is just one of many good players in this game.

Pryce has been named in the Knights NSW Cup side again this week so he looks OK.

If talents like Jonathan Davies , Ellery Hanley, Darren Lockyer and Joey Manu only come around once in a lifetime and I have seen them all play. I have to ask, and be honest, am I immortal... am I Highlander?

It may just be me, but I don't think Manu is anywhere close to the three you mention in this post.

I think the first of those variables is relatively easy. Most employees would change jobs for a considerable pay rise - if there is no other financial incentive involved. But the chance to live in Japan? I want to visit Japan, it is on my bucket list, but I wouldn't want to spend 2 or 3 years away from home, living and working in a foreign country can be very isolating, even if you have your close family with you. If my business wanted me to move to our Japanese office and offered me more money to do it, I would say no. All these matters are personal of course.

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