menace
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Kaplan is my new favourite referee of all time! :biggrin:
I feel I'm in good company now that he agrees with me on Hooper!
I still think he's wrong on that one.
The logical consequence of Hooper's actions being legal would mean that all a player has to do to legally hit his opponent late and head-hight is to launch himself recklessly towards a kicker, and he's off the hook for whatever happens when he collides with the opponent's head. Can you imagine how players like Butch James, Troy Flavell or Corne Krige would use that sort of latitude?
My bold.
Yes, I agree with you Ian, when contact is high.
My comment was because I was unceremoniously lambasted as my initial thoughts were supposedly odd. Obviously not that odd when a recently retired elite referee had the same thought on it.