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Congratulations Nic Natinui
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Congratulations to Nic Nat for not bowing to the PC brigade and reading a prepared statement after the disappointment of a tribunal decision not going in his favour.
He vowed not to change his tackling technique when it would have been easy to appease the Michael Christian's of the world that want to change the fabric of the game.
Whether you agree with the decision or not, Nic had the guts to stand firm in his belief in what he did was not against the rules and will continue to do what he has always done.
Shame other players and coaches don't have the same intestinal fortitude as Nic and tell it from the heart rather than hide behind prepared PC statements.
He vowed not to change his tackling technique when it would have been easy to appease the Michael Christian's of the world that want to change the fabric of the game.
Whether you agree with the decision or not, Nic had the guts to stand firm in his belief in what he did was not against the rules and will continue to do what he has always done.
Shame other players and coaches don't have the same intestinal fortitude as Nic and tell it from the heart rather than hide behind prepared PC statements.
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I 100% agree with the need to protect players but the duty of care doesn’t stop with opposition players.
Where did the AFL find this Jeff Gleeson bloke? Suggesting that in a split second a player should consider not only which direction an opposition player will turn, how to make tackle contact legally, but also weigh up the degree of weight advantage? Give me a break.
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Do we limit how many people that can engage in one tackle because of the possible outcome ???
Against the swans in Round 1, he laid a very similar tackle and got a free kick right in front of goals!!!!! So maybe it depends on the size of the person he is tackling. If under 6ft and 75kg he gives free kick away. If over that he gets the free kick!?!?!?!
Call me NOSTRADAMUS again.
David Zaharakis gang tackled and copped a broken collarbone because two players rode him into the ground, fell on top of him and pop goes his collarbone.
Kane's Cornes called it a perfect tackle because that is a legal way "you can hurt someone" His exact words.
Yet he had an issue with Nic's single tackle where the player elected to stay on the ground and play on. ??
Mixed messages because he is encouraging people getting hurt legally by gang tackling.
Nic's tackle wasn't illegal till they decided to make it illegal because he was too strong and vigorous.
PLEASE EXPLAIN. :-/
Wasn’t concussed.
Case closed.
Same as the free to Cotchin last night.
Surely two players driving a player into the ground is worth one of Natinui. Maybe not.