Quote ="FearTheVee"Terrible news - hope he recovers quickly.
FWIW having watched the tackle a couple of times I can't see any sort of malice there at all. Maybe I don't understand the rules well enough or haven't seen the right angle to know exactly what he's done so wrong for people to be calling it a terrible tackle given the bodies in there. But if it has been earmarked as the sort of tackle that could cause serious injury and now it has, then the proof is in the pudding.
Anyway, the important thing is Mike Cooper and I desperately hope this isn't something that shortens his career. Get well soon MC.'"
i'd posted on here and Warriors fans, that i didnt see anything worthy of a ban having been at the game and watched it back twice on TV. I think the ref let the game go, and where appropriate Singleton (careless), Sironen (careless) and Matautia (late hit and swinging arm) penalised without going over the top. Quick word with culprit and captain, and move on, which is how it should be for a game of that intensity
what i have picked up on through social media is the current clamour for this type of tackle, it looks like we have moved on from cannonball, crusher and this is now the big focus, so likely to see some bans issued where players are leaving the ground to put their weight behind the tackle. Smithies has got a 1 game ban, and i had to watch it back 3 or 4 times, same as i did with the Knowles one. To my untrained eye i didnt see owt wrong, apart from with Knowles he does leave the ground fractionally. I also dont buy into the injury to the opponent has / should have any influence on the outcome, but it looks like he could be getting min of 2-3 games
