[QUOTE=âmyboyblue, post: 925657, member: 180â]Truce/war, whoâs to say on the Internet. John Cusack nailed it in Grosse Pointe Blank I believe, when he opined on the futility of some perceived stored up conflict between himself and Bob. There is no us. We donât exist.
Its as simple as that really.[/QUOTE]
You are right about one thing, there is no conflict. I just think you are a fucking idiot, an the saddest cunt on here, which says something on a forum of sad cunts.
And we all respect what you think. And we all believe everything you say.
Jordan maclean got a 7 match ban last night at the judiciary for the tackle. But this is the NRLâs way of offering him up as the sacrificial lamb to the public. Matter dealt with, nothing to see here, move on people.
Jordan Maclean isnât the problem here. The other two blokes who mysteriously escaped any sanction (consistency? I think not) are not the problem here. The problem here is the NRL which facilitates, trains and encourages these tackles. Its astonishing that there arenât more of them resulting in serious injury.
The NRL is fighting a war with 4 other sporting codes for participation at the moment and its going to lose a shit load of players over this, as more parents take their kids out of rugby league. AFL and football will be the winners in all of this (which makes me very happy).
So theyâve decided heâs kind of a bit guilty if something or other. It looked a tired tackle in general and routine enough. This is an awful story but a seven match ban is the kind of wushu washy kick the can down the road cowardice youâd expect from our current govt.
Bang on. Itâs a nothing decision.
The amount of glossing over the real issue (as in the sport and what it allows) is unbelievable. Every cunt on the media saying itâs a tackle you see every week, well I donât watch slot of league but I donât think that happens â30 times a weekendâ as one clown said today. You would have some amount of serious injuries if that wa the case.
How is he going Kev?
He is paralyzed from neck down for life. Well they said that 2-3 days ago but then they rowed back on it a little since saying there was some hope of that not being the case permanently. They might be just keeping the spirits up, I donât know.
They say they are close to finding ways of addressing such injuries, but still there doesnât seem to be too much actual results.
what can the NRL do here though?
you can only base the punishment on the tackle and not on the injury, these tackles are common and it was a tragedy what has happened. Newcastle are ok with his punishement but are seething none of the other tacklers got punished
i cant see how the guy that did it would want to play the sport again though & Id wonder about his mental state every time he tackles someone
[QUOTE=âcaoimhaoin, post: 926361, member: 273â]He is paralyzed from neck down for life. Well they said that 2-3 days ago but then they rowed back on it a little since saying there was some hope of that not being the case permanently. They might be just keeping the spirits up, I donât know.
They say they are close to finding ways of addressing such injuries, but still there doesnât seem to be too much actual results.[/QUOTE]
He definitely moved his arm straight after the incident.
[SIZE=6]Tony McLean, brother of Jordan, jailed for single-punch attack[/SIZE]
Date
April 4, 2014 - 9:26AM
Tony McLean - the brother of NRL forward Jordan McLean - has been sentenced to three yearsâ jail for a single-punch attack outside a pub.
The sentencing comes a day after Jordan McLean was suspended for seven games for a lifting tackle that left Newcastle Knightsâ Alex McKinnon with a serious spinal injury.
Tony McLean, a Queanbeyan footballer, is not eligible for release until October 2015 for the âviciousâ single punch he delivered to the back of the head of a man outside the Royal Hotel in Orange last year, the Central Western Daily reported.
Adam Ford, the victim, spent three months in hospital after he suffered a brain haemorrhage and a fractured skull.
Judge Stephen Norrish said it was unclear what the future held for McLean, the older brother of the Melbourne Storm player.
During his sentencing of the 24-year-old McLean in the Orange District Court, Judge Norrish said the community was âsick and tiredâ of dealing with the consequences of alcohol-fuelled violence.
While McLean had no previous violent convictions, the judge said the single-punch attack could be considered âviciousâ because McLean rendered no assistance to Mr Ford as he lay on the ground unconscious.
Instead, McLean put his hands in his pockets, walked away, sat on the gutter and watched the scene unfold.
âFor no good reason [McLean] goes and strikes a person who is effectively a stranger. There was no regard to the victim, which could be categorised as vicious,â Judge Norrish said.
McLeanâs partner wrote a character reference for him in which she pleaded with Judge Norrish not to enforce a jail term because, among other things, he would miss his daughterâs christening.
âThe victim may have missed his next birthday completely,â Judge Norrish responded.
He said it was a âsad ironyâ that the circumstances of McLeanâs family mirrored that of Mr Fordâs when he was in hospital, given that McLeanâs family would lose their sole income provider while he was in prison.
Judge Norrish said McLean did not show immediate remorse for his crime, but implied the remorse he felt after the event could have been a realisation of the ramifications of his actions.
Fucking Australia :rolleyes:
Is there a thread that you donât post in?
Well done the judge.
[QUOTE=âThe Wild Colonial Bhoy, post: 926366, member: 80â]what can the NRL do here though?
you can only base the punishment on the tackle and not on the injury, these tackles are common and it was a tragedy what has happened. Newcastle are ok with his punishement but are seething none of the other tacklers got punished
i cant see how the guy that did it would want to play the sport again though & Id wonder about his mental state every time he tackles someone[/QUOTE]
I agree absolutely. I think they are punishing effect not cause. In the normal run of play this wouldnât have raised much of an eyebrow. I think the ban is some kind of lazy plaster over an issue which needs to be met head on. It kind of half points the finger at an individual for a systemic problem and is unfair. Thatâs what I was trying to say.
it is the swelling that that does the damage so it wouldnât happen immediately
NFL player was injured - spinal injury - they flooded the guyâs body with freezing saline, prevented swelling and he walked again - anywhere else in the world and he would have been paralysed from neck down or killed - seems to have been a few of these cases in NFL