Hansens shoulder hit Ratchford in exactly the same place were Monoghan head hit Richards.

Ok, accepted. I haven't watched the reply, but will do once I pluck up whatever it is that I need to pluck up.



No-one is arguing over the legality of the tackle, or the fact the initial contact was thigh / hip area, even the most downheartened Wire fans aren't (well, i'm not), but the problem we all have is this kind of tackle and its potential to cause serious career ending injury. The fact you make reference to Ratchfords legs getting caught awkwardly in the turf is a direct result of the kind of tackle imposed. If that didn't happen, Ratchfords leg doesn't get caught and the guy remains uninjured, end of!



Of course we aren't suggesting that all contact with the legs should be outlawed but there is a difference to one on one (or even two or three on one) head on collision where at least some preparation can be made for the contact and complete vulnerability where, effectively, you are held still while someone takes your legs from clean underneath you at which point it becomes a lottery as to a) where the contact is made and b) exactly how the 'fall' pans out and c) how many bodies and therefore force is applied to any lower legs joints / bones on impact with the ground.

Monoghan obviously deserves a ban too then.

Are you suggesting that Monaghan viciously attacked Richards intentionally with his head?

You must really get wound up at the dreadful unlawful penalty given as Angel Benny Westwood caressed Blake Green with a loving stroke accross his cheek in an effort to show him just how much he cares for him.....

Two wrongs don't make a right, but the Hansen tackle was unfortunate rather than deliberate. He did not attack the knee's but the leg got caught underneath.

The thug on the field was and usually is, Westwood, despicable player who brings shame to the sport. How do you justify that. Tell your kids its ok if the ref does not see it?

Can you please clarify where I made reference to Westwood or in any way defended his actions?



I suppose the difference is thought that Green played on, Ratchford didn't. Are we not questioning the potential to cause career threatening injury? A punch to the face, as quickly as it happened in the tackle, was never going to end Greens career, Hansens tackle, on the other hand could easily have had that outcome!

Two wrongs don't make a right, but you're talking about something completely unconnected to distract and take the conversation away from a house tactic.



There's plenty of other threads for you to spill your bile over Westwood's swinging arm, this one isn't about it.

So Ratchford might have 'unfortunately' had his career ended?

It was back to the house tactics that McGuire introduced at Wigan a few seasons ago. It was a deliberate attempt to injure a player who's momentum had stopped. Thank he hit the hip, because if Ratchford had been upright as he was half a second before Hansen would have hit his intended target.

Well Ratchford didn't look too bad on Sunday in the Fox and Goose in Wigan in fancy dress singing on the Karaoke

I think it was his ankle ligaments that were damaged, not his throat.

How do you know where Hansen intended to hit?