Cleary's ankle broken in preliminary final, with foul play (hip drop tackle). Stretchered off. Ref sends the Knight off because of extreme risk/damage.
Simmonson's ankle broken in Round 5, with foul play (mid air tackle). Stretchered off. Ref sends the Tiger to the sin bin for 10 mins, after telling bunker "it looks bad".
Luckily there is not a double standard where some teams are take care of and others have to fend for themselves. Sarcasm emoji's galore.
Double standard or the new standard?
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As you can argue Couchman on Hopgood as an example.
JC, if that was Jack Cogger do you think that would have been a send off? Find unlikely.
Bailey's one didn't deserve a sin bin.
Hopgood ACL to a hip drop that was a sin bin
Iongi ankle injury to a hip drop sin bin.
Crosslands was a text book hip drop it was ugly but if the others aren't send offs then neither was his.
If we are putting seriousness of injury, then Hopgood's should have been send off since Hopgood was out for the year.
So yeah it was not good, but no hip drops are.
Surely the seriousness is assessed at the judiciary when the player fronts, not from a diagnosis made by a ref or bunker official.
Note that speculations about intent are pointless. Hip drop tackles do not require intent. Penalties are outcome based. Hence, again, we have same outcome in Simmonson and Cleary cases but for Cleary the world has ended and the player had to be sent off but for Simmonson ho hum 10 mins in bin for offending player
I'm sure it was a coincidence that the ref then tried to disallow a fair try to Knights.
That should not have been a send off in my opinion. Cleary was already injured before starting this match and thats obvious by him not starting the game. To send the Knights player off on the basis the tackle caused a major injury is incorrect! Clearly was already injured and should not have even played becuase the risk of further injury is 100% more likely in every single tackle! The Penrith side should be responsible for breaking duty of care to their player! The chance of Knights winning now with 1 player less is highly unlikely but of closures the NRL can't have their 2 big favourite babies miss out on a Grand Final appearance. So they ensure they breast fed with the biggest sucker next week named the champions! Total farce
His prior injury has nothing to do with this injury. Him either playing or not doesn't change that tackle or the result in any form.
Rubbish! IF he didn't play guess what? NO 2nd injury! So common sense should have prevailed by the Penrith coaching staff knowing full well the Cleary was already carrying a serious injury. A 'broken right foot' and if it wasn't that serious they wouldn't have chose to him to only play limited minutes. So in my opinion the Penrith staff are fully to blame
It was not the injured foot. His injury befire this game was his right foot. He has now broken his left foot.
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