Re: Leeds v Cas fight : Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:27 pm  

Nnibly_Warrior wrote:

Exactly, they say it's a family sport and there is no place for it, but It's also a full blooded, full contact, full passion sport. It's not exactly going to scare families away, I remember going as a small child watching the likes of Skerrett throwing punches, it was a exhilarating and made me a fan for life! (not that I wouldn't have been anyway) but I loved the punch ups!

Exactly. I used to look forward to the Skerrett and Nickle fisticuffs.

Re: Leeds v Cas fight : Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:40 pm  

Bring back the biff

Re: Leeds v Cas fight : Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:18 am  

Horatio Yed wrote:

Bring back the biff

I agree.

Bring back the biff !

Re: Leeds v Cas fight : Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:20 am  

tigertot wrote:

The RFL let you off for cheating the salary cap, they let us off for handbags.

And they definitely let you off in 1970 with Hepworth.

Re: Leeds v Cas fight : Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:49 pm  

tigertot wrote:

The RFL let you off for cheating the salary cap, they let us off for handbags.

No, it was the 'spirit' of the cap, never been heard of before, or since.

Re: Leeds v Cas fight : Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:49 pm  

twosevenzero wrote:

No, it was the 'spirit' of the cap, never been heard of before, or since.

Leeds Cas wasn't a fight, it was high spirits.

Re: Leeds v Cas fight : Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:40 pm  

I actually worry that we are trying to over sanitise the game. I am not one for reverting back to the good old bad old days of cheap shots left right and centre, but a dust up every now and again puts bums on seats.

The NRL as good as it is has lost the element of the odd flair up generally despite the very basis of its early Origin days being built on it.

The RFL dealing with the Wigan v Saints dust up like it did set a president by which they have to stand, and for me it is not a good one when every element of a physical games suddenly becomes analysed under the microscope.

Re: Leeds v Cas fight : Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:50 pm  

jonh wrote:

I actually worry that we are trying to over sanitise the game. I am not one for reverting back to the good old bad old days of cheap shots left right and centre, but a dust up every now and again puts bums on seats.

The NRL as good as it is has lost the element of the odd flair up generally despite the very basis of its early Origin days being built on it.

The RFL dealing with the Wigan v Saints dust up like it did set a president by which they have to stand, and for me it is not a good one when every element of a physical games suddenly becomes analysed under the microscope.

I agree & think a large part of the RFL's reaction to Wigan Saints was due to the fake hysteria generated by the pair of pillocks who front Sky SL.

Re: Leeds v Cas fight : Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:45 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I wonder how many will get a ban ("we can't have that in our game!!")

But it wasn't on a national Sky tv game.

Let's wait and see.

How many or who would you have banned rogues?
even when the rhinos are 5hite you lot are obsessed with us