Originally Posted by
Insidetherock
Sorry Complexman.. I cannot agree with you at all on this post.
And I cannot accept that you wouldn't condemn Aaron Moroney for making what sounds like was a dangerous tackle. No player has the right to assault another player, and if they go "to do someone", no matter what the circumstances, then that is what it is, assault.
As a matter of interest, while you find it hard to condemn Moroney for the tackle, how would you feel if you found out that PJ Mooney lost his job afterwards because he wasn't able to carry on with a broken leg (had it been broken)
I know people disagree with me in what I wrote, but the simple fact of the matter is that this situation has been hanging around the game for years now since the Arsenal/Sheffield Utd decsion, and more often than not, teams were beginning to use it as a deliberate tactic to slow down the game. While I am not accusing Scully of that, the fact is, how was a Peake Villa player supposed to know the extent of the injury ?
The decision to stop a game is rightly left to the referee, and to the referee alone, and for good reason.
Let me put it like this for example. Clonmel Town had the opportunity to continue playing themselves when they had the ball and Scully was down. If Peake Villa had stopped playing, pointing to the injured player, and Clonmel Town had scored, would people have considered it bad sportsmanship by Clonmel Town, or would we now be hearing how Peake should have "played to the whistle" ?
Fact remains, after the throw in was given, Town had time to defend it.. they refused to do so.. therefore one can have little sympathy with their predicament. They are big boys and you can be damn sure they'll never let it happen again.
And once again, no sympathy for Aaron Moroney, or any player, from any team, who goes in to do a player, no matter what the excuse.
