Cousins Tackle

[cartman]

what do you think, the guy who comes from out of no where and drags the guy down and ends up with asome times dodgy free kick take cupidio he's tackle did not look legal to me a tad over the shoulder i know hes team mates are ment to be yelling at him but i think most times the other team gets a huge advantage out of these,

 

[Mead]

Well, I shan't be pedantic and make comments about sentence structure.

Cupido's tackle on Cousins was high. No doubt whatsoever about it, if anyone wants to disagree, check the photo in mondays' west aust, which shows his arm over the shoulder.

The interesting thing was that the same thing happened to Kerr a quarter earlier- he was tackled, and got called for holding the ball despite it obviously being around the neck. I'm a little confused, actually. Does any rules maven know what the correct decision is if someone plays on, gets caught, but is tackled high? Does the fact that they were caught holding it overrule the high tackle violation? I would have thought that by tackling someone around the neck, your opponent is not executing a valid tackle, and therefore you can't be holding the ball??

 

[Eagle_Fan]

Any chance the tackle started low and crept up to the shoulder? I don't remember it doing so, but if that was the case I think the free was fair. I mean the tackle did make him drop the ball. He was mid-bounce right? So if the tackle was low, made him drop the ball, then crept up over his shoulder, then it was fair. But since it was always high it wasn't fair, right?

My head hurts.



interesting topic name cartman, you're lucky BraunysBabe~ChOoKcHiCk is under wraps atm

 

[Massie]

It's not a legal tackle if it is high therefore the free should have gone our way.

What i want to know is when holding the man without the ball went out the window. I'm sure i could see Chick's jumper stretching away from his body a couple times when in close proximity to his opponent and the umpire appeared to have a good view!

 

[carlyp]

I think the umpire was wrong. It was an obvious high tackle. Cuzz should have got a free kick. The spineless bastard umpire just went with the crowd which is really bad. The umpires at this level should be strong enough to make a decision without any crowd influence!

 

[Frodo]

From the standard TV angle it definately looked high and I was screaming too. But they showed a replay from a different angle that surprised me. The tackle was laid right ar the top of Cuz's arm just where it curves into the shoulder, it slipped right up onto the shoulder but initial contact was below the shoulder..just..and IMO legal.

Same with Haynes tackle in the middle that crowd and commentators screamed as being high. It looked like it from the main camera angle but the reverse angle camera showed Haynes's arm right accross the top of the chest on contact, below the shoulders.


Crappy unmpires they were, but those two they got right.

 

[USAEagle]

Hey Carneagles....
Did you put this game on DVD yet?

Why don't you put up a frame by frame of the tackle if you can, say 3 frames before and 3 after?

It would be interesting to see a sequenced shot of this thing. The tackle I mean.

You can't believe the evil thoughts that are running through my head at the moment. ALA Haselby...and Tackle

 

[ozzult]

The thing is, it doesn't matter, because we lost.

 

[larrikin]

The tackle was high - which was a shocking skill error from Cupido (which he got away with) but it still doesn't stop the fact that Cousins was run down blind side. Woosha has said that he instructs all palyers to be goal side of their opponent in that situation - so it was always a risk.

Maybe Cus should not have tried to run it across goal from that position.

BTW, the Dan Kerr holding the ball ( no matter how bad his dummy was) was the clearest over the shoulder example in the game. Last time I checked, the holding the ball rule did not include tackles above the shoulder.............

 

[KiNgCliVe26]

The Martians were definatley out there at this game.

 

[jod23]

The angle I got it looked like Cupido put each of his hands directly on Cousins' shoulders. It was probably high but I dont really care, it's done with now. We lost, we will just have to make up for it this weekend!!

 

[GoEagles]

If It's the incident I'm thinking of, it should have been a 50m penalty to the Eagles because Cupido was tackling Cousins after a mark - when Cousin's hadn't deviated off the mark.

 

[ozzult]

Originally posted by GoEagles
If It's the incident I'm thinking of, it should have been a 50m penalty to the Eagles because Cupido was tackling Cousins after a mark - when Cousin's hadn't deviated off the mark.

Nah this is the one in the last quarter, when we were down by 9 points and Cousins was running along the face of goal, and Cupido ran him down, and got a free kick for holding the ball, and kicked the subsequent, sealer goal.