That type of shoulder charge is not illegal in RL but it is in RU, precisely beacause of the potential for the sort of injury that Burgess has incurred tonight.

I think that the authorities need to look into this before somebody does suffer from a broken neck or a spinal injury that could result in a player spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

I fear that is the end of the season for Burgess.

Thanks for a sensible answer to my question - I knew I'd read something about it somewhere.



It's a hard one because everybody likes to see big hits and I guess 99 times out of 100 both players come out fine.



That's one hell of an impact from the kick off with 2 players having run flat out for 50 metres between them and takes very little for it to go wrong like it did tonight

Hmm slight disagree as Burgess also dropped his shoulder in to the tackle ? Its the game RL not the pom pom rar rar game .



Really dont think Luke will think it was a bad tackle.



And again hope he recovers ASAP quality player

Courtesy of Biffa himself:

Shoulder charge in RU is an automatic sin bin, one of the worst rules in the game.

Only saw it on the big screen and it looked like Burgess' head hit Walker's shoulder but I couldn't really tell - hope the lad's Ok - it looked real nasty.

Awful, his teeth seem lower to the right of his jaw.



Hope he's ok, had a fairly decent game!

Why?

Ouch bet hes not up for Frosties in the morning

From Twitter



LukeBurgess87



Thanks so much for all ur concerns every1!to put it simply,my jaw is f[size=100u[/sizecked!check the pic out,in ambulance

Christ, that looks awful.