Revenge Tackle

[ozleicester]

If you have played, you've almost certainly done it.

I'm not defending the guy and it is heart-breaking for Wes (if anyone wonders why players grab opportunities to play at the peak, here's your example, one day potential $80 million and Real... next day busted leg and potential ended career) and for our squad this year.

But, I'm sure we've all been there. A payback tackle, I've done it for myself, I've done it for a team mate...I've done it to impose myself on a player and a match.

I'm sure the intention was not to injure Wes and i imagine the guy who did it feels terrible, a mistake that I imagine he wishes he could go back and change.

Reading the outrage and anger and threats against the guys is just not helpful.

Hopefully Wes recovers fully and quickly, our club uses it for a push ti improve... and the other young lad learns and grows from the error.

 

[knitro]

F/ck that - professionals have higher standards of expectation rightfully, and he failed that tremendously. No one cares about your reaching Sunday League analogy. Because of a child's petulance, we're without one of our top players for effectively this season which could have an incredible impact on the club's future.

 

Acting like he didn't know better or that injury was a possible outcome is complete BS. I don't know if you watched the clip if you think intent to injure wasn't his motive. I'm sure if he wishes he could go back and change it it'd only be because he's getting heaps of deserved abuse now. Justice would be a sledgehammer to his leg, and frankly I'll be rooting for it. Karma usually takes cares of rats like that, so let's all hope it's the case.

[Innovindil]

5 hours ago, ozleicester said:

If you have played, you've almost certainly done it.

I'm not defending the guy and it is heart-breaking for Wes (if anyone wonders why players grab opportunities to play at the peak, here's your example, one day potential $80 million and Real... next day busted leg and potential ended career) and for our squad this year.

But, I'm sure we've all been there. A payback tackle, I've done it for myself, I've done it for a team mate...I've done it to impose myself on a player and a match.

I'm sure the intention was not to injure Wes and i imagine the guy who did it feels terrible, a mistake that I imagine he wishes he could go back and change.

Reading the outrage and anger and threats against the guys is just not helpful.

Hopefully Wes recovers fully and quickly, our club uses it for a push ti improve... and the other young lad learns and grows from the error.

 

"I've done it, therefore everyone has done it, therefore it's okay" is a garbage view imo. 

 

There's one thing to give someone a little elbow or shove or even a little kick out in revenge, it's another completely separate thing to leeroy jenkins scissor tackle into the back of someone at ankle height. There is only one intent with a tackle like that. 

[StanSP]

1 minute ago, Innovindil said:

There's one thing to give someone a little elbow or shove or even a little kick out in revenge, it's another completely separate thing to leeroy jenkins scissor tackle into the back of someone at ankle height. There is only one intent with a tackle like that. 

This. 

[Thefox81]

16 minutes ago, Innovindil said:

"I've done it, therefore everyone has done it, therefore it's okay" is a garbage view imo. 

 

There's one thing to give someone a little elbow or shove or even a little kick out in revenge, it's another completely separate thing to leeroy jenkins scissor tackle into the back of someone at ankle height. There is only one intent with a tackle like that. 

Spot on.

[drumbeat]

I played one game in Sunday league, one, in the 80s. (long story, I was a recent arrival in the UK) The thuggishness was apparent, guys whose only intention was to hurt (not all I hasten to add) They had zero footballing skills and tried to compensate by being 'hard'. I've no idea if my experience accurately reflects across all Sunday league teams but I had no desire to find out. I valued my legs too much. 

 

That tackle was a more finessed version of what I saw in Sunday league but the intention was the same.

[Finnegan]

Honestly the saddest attempt at trolling I've seen in ages. How desperate do you have to be for attention, yet not brave enough to post it in the main LCFC section. 

 

Good Lord, what a drip. 

[ozleicester]

Well I've been told haven't i

[drumbeat]

12 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Honestly the saddest attempt at trolling I've seen in ages. How desperate do you have to be for attention, yet not brave enough to post it in the main LCFC section. 

 

Good Lord, what a drip. 

Really?

 

Perfectly valid topic for general conversation I would have thought??

[Adster]

Definitely one of the worst takes I've seen posted on FT for quite some time. 

[Fox92]

The only time I can recall seeing a bad "revenge" tackle was Keane on Haaland.

 

I've seen many a "revenge" challenge done but these were mainly good tackles.

[urban.spaceman]

Don't think Oz was trolling, it's just unfortunately a really, really bad take.

 

An "acceptable" revenge tackle is a cheeky elbow or hair pulling (sex masochism).

 

I don't know if Nino hoped to cause a long term injury but his tackle was definitely malicious. The sudden 90º twist of his legs half way through is ****ing sinister. 

 

It was the sort of horror tackle that clubs dish out fines and authorities ban players extra games for. Though I don't know who had jurisdiction over a friendly. Leicestershire Police hopefully.

[Brainy]

Deffo seen more offensive threads that have seen less of an extreme reaction than this one

[Daggers]