Lima's ankle twist/Maguire's pattern of brutality

[Guest]

Did I hear on Matty Johns show that he will only miss a week for that? The NRL can't be serious. That low act should see him miss a month easily. It's time they got tough on these shit wrestling tactics. Grapple,chicken wing, twister,neck crank,crusher and whatvever else min 4 week ban no excuses. You watch it start to disappear from the game when blokes are spending a month out. The panel who comes up with the charges/grading are ****ing hopeless. They love to go extreme on high tackles but legitimate low acts like Squirrel grips and knee twist are treated like a non event.
I hope the media go nuts and hammer the NRL over this issue. There were some minor rumblings after Burgess got 1 week but they should really go to town now

[Parkway_Drive]

Good post Rooboy. It makes me sick to think Jared got 5 weeks for something not much more than an accidental love tap...O'Donell gets 3 weeks but in the real world that would be a fair punishment...but in the so called impartial level playing field that is the NRL, Grubs like Lima and Burgarse get two weeks combined. Watmough (you never know with Manly) could be out for more than one week and the grubby perpetrator gets a week to freshen up.....its a joke!!!!!

Melbourne-Scum and Mini-Melbourne Vermin-Scum are the grubbiest teams and get rewarded for their grubbiness....here is something that is true and factual for that Merkin from the ABC to write about!!!!

[theGman]

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/l...821-2sbts.html

Credit to Peter Fitzsimmons for hitting the nail on the head here and exposing Maguire's underhand tactics. The NRL and their inept officials should read this article, take note and ACT UPON IT IMMEDIATELY- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

You suck one lousy one ... and what do they call you?
But I digress. TFF's item last week about the outrage of South Sydney forward Sam Burgess attacking another man's genitals to further the chances of winning a football match, saw your humble correspondent accused of being engaged in ''league-bashing''.

Those accusations notwithstanding, this week I cannot resist raising the subject of his teammate Jeff Lima. Last week, early in the first half of the game against Manly, Lima grabbed the right leg of his opponent Anthony Watmough – known to be carrying a strained posterior cruciate ligament on that very leg – and even though the tackle was completed, did a ''death roll''. That is, Lima gratuitously twisted his body the way a crocodile drowns its prey, so Watmough's leg and, thus, knee would twist with it.

You with me? He specifically targeted the injury of another player so as to exacerbate that injury further. His reward? Watmough limped for the rest of the match, Souths won and Lima received a very tepid one-week suspension. But here is the question. Where was the public outcry? The outrage? Is this really what sport has come to, that, apart from a few fuddy-duddies tut-tutting in the judiciary, it is quite permissible to try and MAIM an opponent?

It seems while on the one hand rugby league constantly promotes the image of the former captains of the St George and Wests teams Arthur Summons and Norm Provan warmly embracing each other at the end of the 1963 grand final, the harsh reality is bitterly different.

That rightly celebrated photo bespeaks football sportsmanship at the highest level, of two men who have thrown everything at each other for 80 minutes, but who at the conclusion of it, are even better friends than before. ''The Gladiators'' embodies the spirit of football the way it is meant to be played.

What the Lima act represents, however, is thuggish bastardry pure and simple. And it is not as if it is a one-off, for either the NRL or Lima.

In the NRL there are dozens of cases, the most notable modern example of which was in 2008 when Paul Gallen infamously worked his fingers beneath the bandages of Anthony Laffranchi, and ripped into the freshly inserted stitches the Gold Coast forward had just had put into a bad head wound.

Laffranchi had to leave the field, and shortly thereafter, Gallen went after another player's testicles, all as part of his previously enunciated dictum: ''We've got a motto here at the Sharks – do whatever it takes to win.''

As to Lima himself, here is a thumbnail sketch of his record – even if that thumbnail might feel like it's boring into your eyeball.
❏ March 2009. Charged with a ''chicken wing'' tackle while playing for Melbourne. (The chicken wing seeks to injure the arm of the opponent.)
❏ July 2009. Reported by referee for a ''crusher'' tackle, again while playing for the Storm. (The crusher seeks to hamper the movement of your opponent by putting pressure on their head or neck.)
❏ May 2010. Playing for the Storm, charged with ''dangerous throw''. One-week ban.
February 2011. Two charges of ''chicken wing'' tackles while playing his first match for Wigan in Britain, with two match suspensions, fined £300.
❏ April 2011. Reported for late shoulder charge on Johnathan Thurston ... escaped charge.

Lima has, thus, what we refer to in the trade, as ''form''.

Most troubling of all is the role of Souths coach Michael Maguire in the piece. For not only was Maguire the coach who presided over the latest Lima and Burgess atrocities, but he was also Lima's assistant coach at the Storm and his coach at Wigan. In Britain, as in Australia, coaches have become wary of the dangerous tactics that seem to be promoted by Maguire.In the words of The Guardian, in April 2011: ''To rival Super League coaches, players and administrators, Maguire remains a divisive figure because of the tactics and, specifically tackling techniques, that underpinned Wigan's rapid rise last season.'' (Is this sounding familiar?)

In the Herald this year, we noted of Maguire's time in Britain, ''Perhaps one source of motivation was a series of photos along a corridor at Wigan's training base. One photo of an opposition player lying on the ground after a heavy tackle by four Wigan players was captioned: 'Roadkill achieved'.''

I have it from one strong source that, shortly after Maguire arrived at Souths, the battle cry ''roadkill'' started to be heard from Souths sides. It is a serious matter. In the NFL recently, the defensive co-ordinator of the New Orleans Saints had to resign after it emerged he had been offering cash rewards for tackles that took key opponents out of the game – and rightly so.

I don't say Maguire has done that with Souths. But I do say a pattern of brutality is beginning to emerge under his tenure that is outrageous, and needs to called out as such.

[Guest]

still a valid article raised by a journalist that sh*ts all over rothfield when it comes to independent writing.

Maguire is turning souths into a nasty, grubby little club, if they weren't bad enough as it is.

[Johnny.]

**** souths! **** Cronulla! **** the ref's (except Matt Checcin)!

You know what I said.

[Arties Pie]

**** souths! **** Cronulla! **** the ref's (except Matt Checcin)!

You know what I said.

Had a good chuckle at that one.

[redwhiteblue]

still a valid article raised by a journalist that sh*ts all over rothfield when it comes to independent writing.

Maguire is turning souths into a nasty, grubby little club, if they weren't bad enough as it is.

Like I said last week, Mini-Me Melbourne wannabes..the master Bellamy and the apprentice Maguire apparently had words with one another over tactics.Oh the irony of it all..Meanwhile, we'll just keep playing our stylish entertaining brand of football under coach Trobbo.

[Guest]

Like I said last week, Mini-Me Melbourne wannabes..the master Bellamy and the apprentice Maguire apparently had words with one another over tactics.Oh the irony of it all..Meanwhile, we'll just keep playing our stylish entertaining brand of football under coach Trobbo.

definitely RWB, I would much rather we win entertaining footy matches than souths winning their grubby grinding games.

[Johnny.]

Had a good chuckle at that one.

I live to serve.

[Parkway_Drive]

definitely RWB, I would much rather we win entertaining footy matches than souths winning their grubby grinding games.

Winning and playing the game in a entertaining,hard, fair and sportsmanlike way....which seems to be the Robbo way.

[roosterproud]

trent= daly m coach of the year

[TheLoneRooster]

Bump. The article by Peter Fitzsimmons is a cracker.
fark the vermin scum and their scumbag of a coach.
GO EASTS.