He had time to brace for impact! Watch his face...

Yes, as would anyone in that position.

Yes, especially in an arm wrestle of a game field position is vital and it worked for a couple of kicks.



I think he has a bit of a look of Kryton off of Red Dwarf, but inside that head is a fantastic attitude along with great leadership a and a smart brain.

It was late and clumsy but not malicious. It was a penalty and mandatory ten minutes sit down

He goes in with his arms raised to disrupt the kick, realises it's got away, drops his arms, grits his teeth and smashes Kev with his head.



I've never seen this on a rugby pitch before - lots of late strikes in this situation with the arms, but never the the top of the head. If he wanted to stop himself he would've used his arms - that's the instinctual defense response.



Also, his demeanour after the incident was devoid of remorse. More mission accomplished.

It was definately late and deserved a yellow and 10 in the sin bin but once again it was ignored by Silverw##k and the touch judge.

I'm baffled as to what he was saying wow at because by my reckoning he wasn't looking in the direction of the big screen and I don't think sinfields conversion had yet sailed over because the team didn't start to run out from behind the posts. Also a simple touchline conversion is unlikely to 'wow' someone as travelled as monoghan hodgson kicks em week in week out.

Why would MM hit him with his head though, he would risk just as serious an injury, with head clashes sometimes you get 'lucky' and for some reason can just brush them off, sometimes it knocks you out and hurts like hell.



Like has been said if he wanted to hurt him either shoulder or forearm.

I see no reason why he should be sticking his head in there in that way. Reckless at best, malicious at worst.

If he deliberately sets out to do Sinfield with his head then he is one hard, crazy b'stard....





Seriously, having just seen it for the first time, it looks like a genuine charge down attempt, which obviously misses and leads to a nasty ACCIDENTAL head collision.....The way he turns his head at the last moment seems to me like he can sense what is about to happen and an instinctive self preservation action kicks in. Sinfield, in the act of kicking, as no chance to do similar and is unlucky to cop the impact.

This

Just watched it back this afternoon and he definitely put his head down to hurt Sinny, he had the option of pulling out of the charge down as the ball had clearly gone, or could have put his hands up to cushion the collision but chose to hit him with the hardest part of his head into the side of Sinnys.......totally meant for me an Australian tactic of taking out the person who's doing the damage