PannickAtTheDisco
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Well that's Wire's fault for being dirty twats knocking people out.
Well that's Wire's fault for being dirty twats knocking people out.
Well done Wigan.
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Good opening game that. Great to see rugby league back.
Mint performance by Wire with 12 and 11 men.
Mint performance by Wire with 12 and 11 men.
PannickAtTheDisco
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Maybe next week they'll stop with the UFC and try playing with 13.
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It’s rugby not a tickling contest. Nothing really dirty happened at all in that game.
Cracking game and both sets of players with smiles and hugs at the end showed there was nothing wrong with anything that happened in the game.
meeesh
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Always good to see Wigan get off to a flier,even better beating them who are almost as hated as St Helens are
PannickAtTheDisco
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apart from enough for a red card and a sin bin.
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The red card was a reckless tackle but not one that was a premeditated purposeful action to injure. And the Sin Bin was a professional foul, nothing dirty about it. Other than that it was a decent contest with hardly any niggle at all.
There’s too much of a football attitude that’s crept into rugby over the last decade. “That’s an awful tackle” “he’s gone to do him there” “could be in trouble here” “that’s at least a Sin Bin” comes out of far too many fans and commentators/pundits mouths these days.
It’s rugby! Half of what the sport is about is everyone is out there to break their opposing counterpart in half for 80minutes. That’s a huge part of why I enjoy it. It’s my antithesis to how pathetic football has become.
It was hardly reminiscent of Catalans v Wire last season where every set there was a tackle flying in that should either have been a penalty or a Sin Bin all game with about eight fights breaking out (including in the stands) that the ref couldn’t control.
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At the end of the day a player has to take responsibility for his own actions. You hit somebody that hard in the head area it is incredibly dangerous. It's still on Hill to make the tackle safely, he failed to do that, it isn’t intentional but completely reckless and deservedly a red.
