How was it a terrible call? It was a text book shoulder charge that ended up making contact with the head. Whether contact was made using his shoulder or head, Ponga, as the defender, had a duty of care. To answer your question he should miss at least this weekend.
Illegal shoulder charge with direct contact to the head with his head or shoulder (or both), it doesnt matter with current interpretation. What matters is it results in koala now missing games. Not exactly a crazy deliberate act but those be the rules and ponga will be missing games.
What i dont understand is why no one seems to know the current interpretation. Shoulder charge, high chance of injury, contact to the head = send off. Nothing surprising.
I think the issue many see is sin bin v send off. Many do not argue against a sin bin it is send off that is the problem. Now the debate is about head clash or shoulder to head. No rapping of the arm and shoulder did contact the head.
Saifiti was always going to back-up, he was going to get limited minutes. Though shows what a joke of a selection it was to start with. Haas will be in for him now anyway.
"I reckon Strange could get moved to the bench for Game 2. He's a hard unit and would be good to have in the team somewhere. And if Moses is in the team because he's made of glass for Origin we almost have to carry a serviceable backup."
"I know it won't happen but Moses and Strage would be an awesome combo. Cleary and Moses don't really do it for me - what makes them both great overlaps a bit too much.
If Moses is fully fit, he will make the squad though. Strange was great but it's…"
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How was it a terrible call? It was a text book shoulder charge that ended up making contact with the head. Whether contact was made using his shoulder or head, Ponga, as the defender, had a duty of care.
To answer your question he should miss at least this weekend.
Illegal shoulder charge with direct contact to the head with his head or shoulder (or both), it doesnt matter with current interpretation. What matters is it results in koala now missing games. Not exactly a crazy deliberate act but those be the rules and ponga will be missing games.
What i dont understand is why no one seems to know the current interpretation. Shoulder charge, high chance of injury, contact to the head = send off. Nothing surprising.
I think the issue many see is sin bin v send off. Many do not argue against a sin bin it is send off that is the problem. Now the debate is about head clash or shoulder to head. No rapping of the arm and shoulder did contact the head.
Ok now that is a joke. Suaali'i got 4 weeks for his hit. So pretty much undermines Klein as well for calling a send off.
But Hopoate accidentally makes contact with ref and gets a week?
Is that actually fair dinkum? Or just a photo shop
He accepted an early guilty plea and was fined $6,900. Had he challenged, he was facing a 2 match ban.
Poor Eels, they probably thought Saifiti and Ponga would miss our game and now they both will back up
Saifiti was always going to back-up, he was going to get limited minutes. Though shows what a joke of a selection it was to start with. Haas will be in for him now anyway.
No they'll let him play and use the excuse that Origin matches don't affect NRL matches
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