I've been playing rugby since I was 6 years old I'm 24 now and in ally years I have never seen a serious injury due too a shoulder charge yes they hurt and they take the wind out of you but your ready for it your looking for that contact! I can't believe the rfl has banned them but still allow this tackle were the players hold someone up and someone goes in and attacks the standing leg! Saw chase do it too ferres but nearly every tackle it happens now and is causing some serious knee/ankle problems! They need too get on top of this now and start throwing big bans at the culprits it's a horrible tackle!

I've seen plenty of injuries from shoulder charges. Unfortunately the players proved they couldn't be trusted to perform the shoulder charge safely, they were literally just throwing themselves forward, so it had to go.

The cannonball tackle is illegal, but unfortunately rarely enforced.

An the cannonball is 100 times more dangerous!! I'd rather be shoulder charged then a 17 stone bloke collapsing on my knees

I wouldn't necessarily say it's more dangerous as a cannonball tackle can't hit you in the head, but I take the point about the dangerous nature of the tackle. It's something I wish the RFL would stamp out. Immediate sin binnings each and every time it occurs would probably do the trick and bans for serial offenders.

The Chase 'tackle' on Ferres was actually ignored on the field by James Child until one of the touchjudges told him what happened, even then Child just put it on report. If players know they can commit a dangerous tackle and put a key man out of the game and not get punished they will continue to do it...

It's horrible and full of intent! Needs stamping out the game

There is absolutely no need to attack the legs around the knee joint, even when you do so 'with' the joint rather than 'against' it.

Contact aimed at the upper thigh or hip area is more than enough, the player can then slide down the legs hugging them at the knee area in order to control the tackled player.

Canonballing against the joint is a horrible thing to do to another player, it's akin to the studs up over the ball tackle in soccer and can end a career!

Travis Burns last week, triple fracture of the cheekbone.

I'd rather that the cruicate ligament gone!! I think we will start too see some horrible I jury's!! How we don't see compound fractured is beyond me! All that weight onto the joints is horrendous! Not condoning shoulder charges by the way but think the cannonball is more dangerous than the shoulder charge and needs too be treated as such!

Rangi's is disgusting and he should be banned for a long time for that, absolutely cowardly with intent to injure Ferres,
it's awful, the whole cannonball tackle thing is a disgrace and should be banned immediately and any player found guilty of it should be out as long as the player they injured is.

Child also ignored a shoulder charge by Hauraki, and put that on report even though yet again the TJ came onto the field to tell him what had happened!

or in Rangi's case, while the ball carrier is already wrapped up, with one player holding one leg off the ground, Rangi goes around the back of Ferres and deliberately attacks his only leg on the ground

The incident on Ferres is one of three with contact to the legs of a tackled player that the MRP looked at from Chase alone over the Easter weekend.

Seems he's been learning from his cousin Issac Luke after all.