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ROOSTERS forwards Martin Kennedy and Mose Masoe both say they hold no hard feelings towards Penrith's Travis Burns - and Kennedy has appealed to the NRL not to stamp out shoulder charges or big collisions.
With Burns facing a possible 17 week ban for two ugly tackles in last Sunday's game, the two Roosters forwards on the wrong end of his tackles today spoke in Burns' defence.
Asked if he was upset with Burns, Kennedy said: "It is just one of them things, he may have mistimed it and I probably fell into it a little bit as well.
"It happens from time to time and I suppose it has been the worst possible time with everything that has been going on in the game about the contention about the shoulder charge.
"I have definitely got no hard feelings and there is nothing I would hope that would happen to him."
Masoe added that he shook hands with Burns after the game and didn't blame him for the pain he felt at the time of the alleged chicken wing.
"It was because my arm already had an AC problem so that is the reason why it was pretty sore but I reckon if my arm was normal then it wouldn't have been (as bad)," Masoe said.
Kennedy also said he had no recollection of an alleged verbal altercation with Burns in the lead up to the high tackle that saw him sent from the field.
"I can't remember. This is purely from the replay, I have only seen what you have seen, there was a little bit of niggle in the play the ball (before that led to a penalty) so that is why I wound up having the next one and he basically got me," Kennedy said.
"So it's one-nil to him I guess."
Asked if he remembered the tackle, Kennedy added: "I have only seen the replay and what the guys have told me but they said I was pretty out of it shortly there after.
"I think I ran off and I tried to run straight back on ... (after the game) I basically come to and they were fiddling around with me nose so I think I tried to swat them off a little bit. But that was the first thing, I sort of come to and everyone was poking fingers at my nose."
He said he didn't want to see the shoulder charge or heavy collisions rubbed out of rugby league.
"We have sort of been unlucky lately that we have had a few that have been right on the line of unacceptable so the NRL feels compelled to step in and make at least presence about their standing on it," Kennedy said.
"I definitely don't want the shoulder charge out of the game, I definitely don't want the tough nature (gone).
"I think that is really what we have got that goes for us in the NRL and rugby league in general is that we are a hard game and we've got those big collisions, that's what people come to watch.
"I would hate to think anything would be done to limit that in our game.
"If you are going to put yourself in a position to make a shoulder charge or you are going to put yourself in a position that might put another player in danger obviously you've got to take responsibility for that.
"But having said that I don't want there to be an onus on the referees to be sort of hunting it out or any of the rules being changed or tinkered with as they stand that would interfere with the nature of the game."
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Nice guys finish last as the old saying goes, and we're still got 6 rounds to go.
I also notice a war of words between two coaches Maquire and Price. Given all the crap that has befallen us this year I'm wondering what it would take to spark our human laxative of a coach into arcing up?
Chook.
ROOSTERS forwards Martin Kennedy and Mose Masoe both say they hold no hard feelings towards Penrith's Travis Burns - and Kennedy has appealed to the NRL not to stamp out shoulder charges or big collisions.
With Burns facing a possible 17 week ban for two ugly tackles in last Sunday's game, the two Roosters forwards on the wrong end of his tackles today spoke in Burns' defence.
Asked if he was upset with Burns, Kennedy said: "It is just one of them things, he may have mistimed it and I probably fell into it a little bit as well.
"It happens from time to time and I suppose it has been the worst possible time with everything that has been going on in the game about the contention about the shoulder charge.
"I have definitely got no hard feelings and there is nothing I would hope that would happen to him."
Masoe added that he shook hands with Burns after the game and didn't blame him for the pain he felt at the time of the alleged chicken wing.
"It was because my arm already had an AC problem so that is the reason why it was pretty sore but I reckon if my arm was normal then it wouldn't have been (as bad)," Masoe said.
Kennedy also said he had no recollection of an alleged verbal altercation with Burns in the lead up to the high tackle that saw him sent from the field.
"I can't remember. This is purely from the replay, I have only seen what you have seen, there was a little bit of niggle in the play the ball (before that led to a penalty) so that is why I wound up having the next one and he basically got me," Kennedy said.
"So it's one-nil to him I guess."
Asked if he remembered the tackle, Kennedy added: "I have only seen the replay and what the guys have told me but they said I was pretty out of it shortly there after.
"I think I ran off and I tried to run straight back on ... (after the game) I basically come to and they were fiddling around with me nose so I think I tried to swat them off a little bit. But that was the first thing, I sort of come to and everyone was poking fingers at my nose."
He said he didn't want to see the shoulder charge or heavy collisions rubbed out of rugby league.
"We have sort of been unlucky lately that we have had a few that have been right on the line of unacceptable so the NRL feels compelled to step in and make at least presence about their standing on it," Kennedy said.
"I definitely don't want the shoulder charge out of the game, I definitely don't want the tough nature (gone).
"I think that is really what we have got that goes for us in the NRL and rugby league in general is that we are a hard game and we've got those big collisions, that's what people come to watch.
"I would hate to think anything would be done to limit that in our game.
"If you are going to put yourself in a position to make a shoulder charge or you are going to put yourself in a position that might put another player in danger obviously you've got to take responsibility for that.
"But having said that I don't want there to be an onus on the referees to be sort of hunting it out or any of the rules being changed or tinkered with as they stand that would interfere with the nature of the game."
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Nice guys finish last as the old saying goes, and we're still got 6 rounds to go.
I also notice a war of words between two coaches Maquire and Price. Given all the crap that has befallen us this year I'm wondering what it would take to spark our human laxative of a coach into arcing up?
Chook.
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