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Shoulder charges here to stay
Topic Started: Mar 22 2008, 12:00 AM (23 Views)
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Personally i feel that brown should have to stay out of the game for the same amount of time as wing, after all, he's the one that caused the injury in the first place.
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Wing was ruled out for three months while Brown was cleared by the NRL match review committee after hitting the Rabbitohs star in the back while he was being held by Roosters teammates Braith Anasta and Anthony Tupou.

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SYDNEY - The National Rugby League (NRL) says it has no plans to rid the game of spectacular shoulder charges despite announcing a crackdown on the dangerous tactic.

The governing body says it will consider proposing law changes to outlaw shoulder charges where more than one defender is involved following the public outcry over Riley Brown's late hit on South Sydney halfback Craig Wing.

Wing was ruled out for three months while Brown was cleared by the NRL match review committee after hitting the Rabbitohs star in the back while he was being held by Roosters teammates Braith Anasta and Anthony Tupou.

Desperate to ensure the tactic doesn't become a feature of the modern-day game, the NRL moved today to warn clubs that defenders coming in with late shoulder charges would no longer be tolerated.

But while Brown's alleged `cheap shot' could be outlawed, the one-on-one collisions made famous by the likes of Sonny Bill Williams are in no danger of being banned as they are in rugby union.

"Most people see the one-on one shoulder charge as a spectacular part of the game when it's pulled off correctly," NRL chief operating officer Graham Annesley said yesterday.

"The fans generally like seeing that ... there's no suggestion at this point of banning shoulder charges altogether.

"From this weekend we're going to be monitoring the situation to see if the type of tackle we saw on the weekend (involving Brown and Wing) was anything other than an isolated incident.

"If we see that it's becoming more prevalent we will seek to request a change in the laws of the game to only allow shoulder charges where it's a one-on-one situation."

The NRL's immediate reaction is hardly likely to thrill Wests Tigers coach Tim Sheens, who accused officials of making knee-jerk reactions to supposed trends.

Sheens was speaking in relation to the `crusher' tackle after Tigers prop Todd Payten elected to fight a grade two crusher tackle charge at the NRL judiciary tonight.

The tackle first came into vogue last season, defenders using their body weight as leverage to press down on the head and neck of an opponent in a bid to slow down the play the ball.

"We feel it's pretty innocuous and from our point of view we don't feel he's guilty of anything more than an awkward tackle," Sheens said.

"I think it's a grey area for everyone, because I don't think it's an issue in the game.

"People (talk about) trends in the game, how many thousand tackles were made last year and I think there were two or three examples of (crusher tackles).

"I think a trend is a little bit more than two or three examples in thousands of tackles.

"We're worrying about the various tackles the media seem to be naming these days when they're one-off things.

"There's a little bit of a knee-jerk reaction to it ... we're talking about something that's not in my opinion a trend."

Meanwhile the NRL yesterday fined Melbourne A$10,000 ($11,621) for twice failing to take the field on time against the New Zealand Warriors last night.

The Storm were more than three minutes late onto the field for the start of each half, the premiers given five days to appeal the fine.

"We're not putting the blame an any particular individual, what we're saying is there needs to be a process in place so that when players are required to come out that the message needs to get through to them," Annesley said.

"If there's a process problem in getting the message from the ground manager to the person who's on the door, to the players and the coach, then they need to look at how they improve that process."
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