Posts Tagged "shoulder charge"

It is blatant that the NRL is neither serious nor genuine in its attempt to stamp the shoulder charge out of the game.

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A few months before the start of the 2013 NRL season, I was working on a highlights compilation that I had hoped would become a good piece of NRL promotion online.

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Last week I was reading perhaps the most unusual yet surprisingly underrated source of legal and political debate: a rugby league forum.

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How can any right-thinking person consider that there is anything wrong with shoulder charges in league?

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We are gathered here today to mourn the death and celebrate the life of one of our country’s last bastions of manhood. It is with deep regret and great sadness that we today say farewell to the shoulder charge.

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On Monday, the new independent commission which now governs rugby league made the decision to outlaw the shoulder charge.

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Much has been said about how the new rule changes relating to shoulder charges have gone wrong.

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Cronulla centre Ben Pomeroy walked blindfolded into the NRL judiciary last night expecting to be made an example of. Instead, while waiting for the blow, he was hit by a nerf dart.

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The NRL came out yesterday with a curious announcement that, one week out from the finals, it would send any shoulder charge which made contact with a player’s head or neck straight to the judiciary without any grading.

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So I am writing this while still in a daze through a combination of recklessness, a steep slope, and a skateboard that landed on the back of my head on the pavement, resulting in what’s commonly known as a concussion.

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Imagine that you are a player in the NRL. You are facing the judiciary hoping to get a downgrade from a possible five-game suspension.

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Does an achieved feat have any value if it has been won too easily? William Webb Ellis first ran with the rugby ball, but he had to traverse a perilous field full of lurking dangers to do it.

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Make no mistake, there is a media campaign being waged not just against shoulder charges, but against the game itself.

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