The NRL must punish gutless acts

The NRL has no biff retribution for all those players in rugby league that slyly twist the legs, arms and heads of opposing players in tackles.

The commentators just gutlessly pretend it didn’t happen, and are always turning a blind eye.

Instead, they cover it up through comments like, ‘it’s not in his game’ or ‘it must have been accidental’.

Well sorry Ray Hadley, Rabs and the rest, it is in their game and it wasn’t accidental either.

You owe it to all the players who suffer from these gutless acts to identify it straight away, because if it’s allowed to continue then more and more players will do it, and it will be partly your fault.

If you allow players to get away with it unpunished like they used to be by the biff, then the same kind of retribution in tackles will flow back and forth, and soon we will have a game full of gutless dirty cats looking to maim players when they are helpless.

So NRL, if your going to ban the biff then punish anyone found guilty of real foul play, such as twisting the muscles, limbs and heads of players when they are being tackled, or other manoeuvres which damage a player when he is helpless.

What’s wrong with just good hard tackling?

By not addressing the foul play of twisting limbs and heads, the NRL, CEO David Smith and head of football Todd Greenberg are promoting this as acceptable to all the kids coming up through the junior grades.

We do not need or like this in our game, and anyone who does like it, or doesn’t care either way, is then condoning it as acceptable.

So speaking on behalf of all true rugby league fans out there, who like a hard, tough game with instant biff retribution for the coward cats who enjoy slyly trying to turn a player into a pretzel, for the good of rugby league address this matter now.