The Virtual Terrace • Re: GAME ON: Catalan Dragons v Warrington Wolves - 17:00:00
tigertot wrote:
So, just to be clear, the legal tackle didn't end his career as he went on to play for York & Scarborough into his 30s? I wouldn't wish that on anyone but Pearce wasn't good enough to play top level RL, which I would suggest is as much a reason. Gibbs was one of the most destructive players I have seen. To say he deliberately set out to end another players career is pathetic.
Yes it did end his career, his Hull career was over after that, yes he played a handful of lower league games but in essence he was finished after that viscous tackle. Yes I do belive Gibbs deliberately did it, you don't dive head first at someones prone isolated leg and not know the consequences of that, he set out to maim him and succeeded, Gibbs had a repution, for pure violence, especially on degensless kickers, flying elbow on Joe Lyndon in WCC another example, he was not a destructive player he was a thug, and thankfully players like him are not Longer in our game. I have seen some very tough players in my time and someone of them sometimes went too far, les Boyd, kurt Sorensen etr can. But they could all play a bit too, Gibbs could not.
If yo think those sort of tackles are fine then you are the pathetic one
Statistics: Posted by rollin thunder — Wed Aug 07, 2019 6:19 pm