If you remember it was John Wilkin who mentioned this about 3 or 4 years ago that players were being subjected to extra stress on muscles and joints but he got shot down by quite a few fans of being soft when in reality he was looking at players welfare.



This problem is partially down to the RFL, at the same time the RFL were concerned about blow out scores not being good for the image of Superleague and allowed the refs to police a much slower play the ball, the outcome was to reduce the intensity out of games, then Wigoons took it one step further with the wrestling and slow exit from the ruck area.



We are also being subjected to "trial by television" a lot more by slowing the action frame by frame which makes incidences much worse than seing it in real time.



It would be good to see a much quicker play the ball instead of 5 drives and a kick that we get a lot of the time, will the RFL address it or wait until we get more injuries in the multi player tackle.

I've not watched it back on tv so not seen the incident but I find it funny that smith moaning about dangerous tackles when he has the head hunter super Benny Westwood.



If you put some of his head shots on a DVD it was would be a x rated 18yrs certificate. Talk about ending someone's career, I've seen some super benny westwood tackles that can end a life.

Yes it did cross my mind the other day that Benny the Fist does has intent to injure most of the time to the head. It was also funny in that I think a Cas player has had a match ban for throwing a punch at Morley who is a serial offender at this kind of stuff.