looking at the incident closely, there was no reason for Hawkins to pull his elbow back. He was tackled, and he handballed. why does he need to pull the elbow back? He knew Mays head was in the vicinity. you can't just throw the elbows around and call it an accident. where's the duty of care? Staggered there is no commentary around this deliberate act.
yeah im staggered too.
even looking at it from their POV, other than Steven May dying on field, the 'optics'
quite literally cant get any worse,
given his eye socket is stoved in.
As you point out, who *smile* an elbow and swings it hard enough to fracture faces when being tackled?
where is the justification? what could he possibly argue? get a human movement expert to show Hawkins doing the chicken dance in his sleep?
and why not let the tribunal deliberate, rather than run the 'freak accident' line?
I just dont get the acute, ongoing contradiction between the 'protection the head' messaging
and the extraordinary inconsistency in protecting the head .
Its incompetence at best.