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there is no way bai and kearney meant to do this... :roll: and why is he suing the club.... :? it isnt there fault...it was jsut a freak accident.
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McCracken says the tackle was "intentional" and "done with intent to cause injury".
well thats bullshit right there

but i dont remember the tackle, so its not my place to say anything else
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the video on sports tonight tonight didn't look that freakish, spesh from kearneys point
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this is just flat out wrong
FoxSports wrote:FORMER rugby league international Jarrod McCracken is suing the Melbourne Storm club and two of its players, saying they destroyed his career with a spear tackle.
Neither are with the club anymore :roll:
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Thunderstruck wrote:this is just flat out wrong

Neither are with the club anymore :roll:
That has no bearing on the case at all. I can't see him winning the case though, as to win it he would have to prove that the intent of the tackle was to injure him, and not a case of a tackle gone wrong. There have been assault charges from sport before, such as Leigh Matthews and Neville Bruns, but that was a clear case of behind the play assault.

I can't see him proving intent, and therefore, it will be case over IMO
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my post was regarding that single line, not the entire case.
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Was this the tackle that Kearney was outed by the tribunal for 8 weeks? And in turn spear tackles/dangerous throws became reportable?
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one and the same. wait, didn't kearney get 12 weeks?
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Kearney got 8 weeks, Bai got one. In my view it was a very bad tackle (and SK had had previous problems with his technique) but there was no intent to injure.

This will be an absolute disaster for Rugby League in Australia if the case is upheld. Players will start suing for any injury which shortens a career. The next step will be players suing ground staff over knee injuries. It has the potential to make the game (especially at junior levels) economically non-viable.
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also{not saying its jarrods fault}but when you look at the tackle before he hits the ground he ducks his head in....if he doesnt do that he doesnt lend on his neck.
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LMFAO...he is losing income? YEAH RIGHT.....read this:

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Can you imagine the mortgage repayments on that $15 or $16 million? If he win's this case - may interest rates rise! ;) Just for him of course!
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KINGY wrote:there is no way bai and kearney meant to do this... :roll: and why is he suing the club.... :? it isnt there fault...it was jsut a freak accident.
I dont think any player means to do it.

It is waaaaaaay to easy for something to go wrong in a tackle, to try and say that either player ment to do it as laughable.


What did Bai have to gain from this if it was intentional? Nothing that I can think of. Considering that before and after the incident Bai has always shown himself to be a good sport

Pretty much the same with Kearney. The only thing Kearney had to gain was maybe a rep spot, but then he was always the better player anyway. Kearney did have a bad history until he came to the Storm. Since then he has cleaned up his act.

Either way, how can you prove intent? I dont believe you can prove it 100%, which is what should be needed for McCracken to win. All evidence will be based of video and "expert" witnesses which both parties can counterclaim.... Bah...

Unfortunatly for McCracken his injury comes under the category of "Shit Happens". No one really wants it to happen, but career ending injury's do. It is a part of sport, he needs to grow up :)

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What I don't understand, is the sueing of the club. He has proof somewhere that someone in the clubn said "hey Marcus, Steve, make sure you spear tackle Jarod McCrakken tonight, we want to end his career."

How pathetic. From what I recall, Kearney was trying to drive Jarod, then Marcus got involved, and things got complicated.

Good Luck to him proving they went out there to intentionally end his career. Maybe he could get Marcus and Steve charged with attempted manslaughter too. :roll: :roll: :roll:
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Lord Reynoldson wrote:What I don't understand, is the sueing of the club. He has proof somewhere that someone in the clubn said "hey Marcus, Steve, make sure you spear tackle Jarod McCrakken tonight, we want to end his career."

How pathetic. From what I recall, Kearney was trying to drive Jarod, then Marcus got involved, and things got complicated.

Good Luck to him proving they went out there to intentionally end his career. Maybe he could get Marcus and Steve charged with attempted manslaughter too. :roll: :roll: :roll:
Why stop there? Why not sue the ground staff and MOPT for the playing surface damaging him when he came into contact with it? Sue the NRL for allowing Melbourne Storm to compete in the competition thus enabling a couple of the Storm's players to tackle him. Sue the coach for not getting this tackle style out of Kearney and Bai's repertoire. Hmm, who else? Sue the ref and his own team mates for doing nothing to prevent the tackle from occurring?

Hope he gets nothing!
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