Celticman98
Timana Tahu
Forgot to post this before the game last week but Phoenix did a interview with NZ radio before the semi final.
Phoenix Crossland discussion
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The Artist Formerly Known as Aku'd
Jarrod Mullen
Speaks very well. Honest too which isn’t a surprise.
bremsstrahlung
Troy Fletcher
Spare a thought for Phoenix.
Absolutely gutted for him. He’s been one of our best all season - our engine, the tackling machine.
I thought he looked devastated yesterday. I don’t think he even realised it was a “hip drop” until the replays come up and show him on the leg. I don’t think there was any intent there at all.
It’s a hard pil to swallow to injure somebody like that. Albeit an accident. He plays tough. He plays physical - but he plays fair. He is a nice guy. I think it’s equally hard to hear the congratulations going to him for “winning us the game” (not on here, there’s some other club supporters saying he won us the game) when he had zero intent.
The media around this will be that his tackle caused the injury. So hope the boys can get around him this week. There’s nobody that deserves a GF ring more than Crossland this season.
I think we need to challenge this - I don’t think he gets off - I think the NRL need to save face that the send off was warranted. But I think we need to support him, need to highlight the inconsistencies in approach.
If I’m his lawyer, I’m getting Radley’s Hip drop on repeat. I’m even saying he has served a match suspension already with the send off, that was unprecedented. Hip drops have caused injuries before - no sin bin, no suspension and no send off.
Also, I don’t think anybody suspected it was a hip drop until the replays were shown.
I think Sutton’s use of emotive descriptors was a bit ordinary as well as he described the tackle.
Anyway. Unlucky Phoenix. Thinking of you.
Absolutely gutted for him. He’s been one of our best all season - our engine, the tackling machine.
I thought he looked devastated yesterday. I don’t think he even realised it was a “hip drop” until the replays come up and show him on the leg. I don’t think there was any intent there at all.
It’s a hard pil to swallow to injure somebody like that. Albeit an accident. He plays tough. He plays physical - but he plays fair. He is a nice guy. I think it’s equally hard to hear the congratulations going to him for “winning us the game” (not on here, there’s some other club supporters saying he won us the game) when he had zero intent.
The media around this will be that his tackle caused the injury. So hope the boys can get around him this week. There’s nobody that deserves a GF ring more than Crossland this season.
I think we need to challenge this - I don’t think he gets off - I think the NRL need to save face that the send off was warranted. But I think we need to support him, need to highlight the inconsistencies in approach.
If I’m his lawyer, I’m getting Radley’s Hip drop on repeat. I’m even saying he has served a match suspension already with the send off, that was unprecedented. Hip drops have caused injuries before - no sin bin, no suspension and no send off.
Also, I don’t think anybody suspected it was a hip drop until the replays were shown.
I think Sutton’s use of emotive descriptors was a bit ordinary as well as he described the tackle.
Anyway. Unlucky Phoenix. Thinking of you.
Treadly
Clint Newton
Yeah I 100% back this statement. I was given so much from Penrith fans around me who were screaming for the bin. I was a little vocal that no one has ever been sent for one.
Honestly that more a ref dropping f up than anything in the warriors game.
But the Phoenix will rise from the ashes!
Honestly that more a ref dropping f up than anything in the warriors game.
But the Phoenix will rise from the ashes!