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Joey demands action over 'horrendous' tackle - CtrlF.XYZ

Joey demands action over 'horrendous' tackle

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Rugby league fable Andrew Johns has demanded the NRL ace down connected a tackle that has present ruled a Penrith prima retired for the year.

Panthers winger Taylan May volition miss the full 2023 play after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament successful his knee during the World Club Challenge.

May had been held up by 2 St Helens players, earlier Agnatius Paasi dove astatine the Panthers player's legs and caused them to buckle awkwardly.

Paasi was not penalised oregon charged for the incident, but Johns was not blessed and wants the crippled to enactment connected the "horrendous" benignant of tackle.

"Once again, get that tackle retired of the game," Johns said connected Wide World of Sports' Freddy and The Eighth.

"You don't request that 3rd idiosyncratic coming successful to the tackle.

"If 2 players - 2 large boppers - person got clasp of him, you should not person a 3rd subordinate coming successful astatine the knees.

"I'm not blaming the subordinate due to the fact that each squad does it. Every squad trains for it, each squad does it."

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Fellow league fable Brad Fittler was arsenic unimpressed.

"It's not a bully tackle, seriously," Fittler agreed.

Rugby league has outlawed "cannonball" tackles, which occurs erstwhile a defender dives astatine a ball-carrier's knees.

But the Paasi enactment was deemed legal.

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