Parramatta Eels vs Brisbane Broncos: NRL live scores, blog, highlights

It wasn't, have a look at it again, the shoulder charge after Mosses kicked it, that was a blatant 'shoulder charge' and nothing was done.

It's across the board and I for one want to see it stamped out. Selective application of the rules and blatant thuggery is what will kill the game. Terrible. Edwards knew the penalty was coming but did it anyway. It wasn't like he was trying to get him into touch.

I thoughtt it was penalised

and ir doesnt help the Broncos immensely Mmmm lets see Every Home Game on a Friday ? Crushers ? If were to have a compromise in our Superleague ( ie lets create a comp that the Broncos win every year)/ARL the Crushers have to go. Us Broncos own Brisbane. Own Qld Own Australia. Do as we say or there'll be another Super League

Not unlike Hodges on Morris. Not unlike cute little Billy kicking out when he goes to catch a high ball Not unlike likeable Cameron effecting a chicken wing on a prone player and then poker face telling reporters he didn't Not unlike cute little Billy ( butter wouldn't melt in his mouth) sliding into players with his studs All catty but watching it closely Edwards landed a shoulder on the shoulder of an untackled player. If the NRL had any credibility theyd be consistent and not pander to loud rum soaked hillbillies

Doubt if Brown will cop anything, Pearson slipping yet again and arm hit ball and actually looked like it missed the head altogether. Edwards might face some scrutiny but again if his shoulder had actually hit head think Pearson would have been knocked out, which he wasn't.

This is nothing like a few years ago where Hodges, Broncos centre, drove his body into Morris (Dogs winger) who already indicated he was down due to an injury.....is it?

Sounds like a disappointed Broncos supporter, they turned up all right but were hammered by a better side. Broncos won't make top 4 and will be battling to stay in top 8, their next 5 games are all against top 8 sides except Titans who are no easybeats and likely to win after their capitulation last nite.

I mentioned that trough this game, Blair's shoulder charge on Mosses was blatant and should have been on report and penalised or Parra should make a complaint.

..don't not believe that a major objective of this game is to deliver pain to your opponent in any legal form..and there's nothing else on Blairs,Thaidays,Mcguires...even Gillette mind,than that..it's in the forwards job description to administer suffering,and the Bronco pack do it exceptionally..don't go all princess on us mad max when your team cops a little of its own medicine..

I don't think it was so much the action as the fact that Pearson was on his back looking dazed after a high shot. It was completely unneccesary to put a shot on a guy that could easily have been concussed

Last nights incident with Edwards was the perfect opportunity for the NRL to show any balls and they missed it. They have lost all credibility with the public in relation to this. Edwards was quoted recently about not losing his head. What a joke.

I don't in any way condone what Edwards did, Ch9 commentators, especially gus said it was a legal tackle as Pearson was deemed as being not held after Brown fell off. The intensity of Edwards flop and reaction from the Bronco's players made the whole thing look worse than what it was. What gets me though is how many people are prepared to look at this incident and nothing about the Bronco's player Adam Blair? First off he will argue in his tackle on Mitchel Moses after Moses grubbered, that he was commited and could not pull out, Yes! I would accept that up to a point but he led with his shoulder into Moses and put him down, sure not around the head of Moses but its a regular thing with Blair though. On at least 3 other times last night he was 3rd or 4th tackler in and as usual in many of them they are illegal torpedo types aimed at the legs. For all the brain snaps that Edwards has and he plays the game tough, players like Blair get away with much more in every game yet are either never or hardly ever caught out for it. Yes the incident was a bad show on what I thought was a high intensity game that came out with a surprising win to the eels.

It was end to end stuff, but it wasn't exactly high quality

If that was one of the games of the season league really is in trouble.

What did you expect from the gutless grub. Had a look first to make sure he was defenseless then cowardly hit him. If Soliola got 5 weeks then this guy should get 10 weeks.

Poor by Broncos tonight. Not ideal with finals just around the corner. They are a real chance of missing the 4 now, this was an important game to win and they never turned up. Disappointing.

What a dog act by Edwards. Ref's have obviously been instructed not to send off. Intent was to hurt a man on the ground.

Great game to watch tonight. Very tight second half until the last 7 or 8 minutes. The Broncos kept making dumb mistakes or gave away penalties at crucial moments. The Eels deserved to win and fully deserve to play finals this season. Anthony Milford did bugger all tonight. I know he is carrying an injury but he looks about 10 kgs overweight. Didn't see him run the ball once. Moses and Norman were great tonight but they got plenty of help from the team mates. I can still see the Broncos being competitive in the finals but if they lose McCullough for an extended period it will hurt.