daysofourlives wrote:West Coast have a responsibility to the game to challenge Nic Nats ban. Absolute joke thats a week. Its a free kick for in the back and nothing more. I watched nearly every game over the weekend and there was 2 things that stru ck me with tackling.
I reckon there was at least 6-8 occasions where you could see a bloke was going to be run down and in each case the tackler clearly got into the back much like Natanui but you can just tell the umpire is gooing to pay holding the ball before he is even tackled. His mind is made up becaues you can see what is going to happen. You still need to be tackled correctly.
The 2nd was players getting pinged for holding the ball when the tackle barely retarded them at all. Very quick on the whistle
They don't, that's the problem. You get mowed down from behind and buried and it's holding the ball. They hardly pay in the back when driven forward anymore.
And completely agree, like Gray and Douglas the Eagles must contest it for the sake of the game. It's not worthy of a week off IMO.
On the flip side, they play GWS who have no ruckman, they might take the opportunity to give Natanui the week off.
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