Twitter is full of opinions on the comments that Nathan Brown made last night,
"It was disgraceful, horrible. Luke O'Donnell has run in but hasn't thrown a punch after Kevin Brown had been hit late, off the ball. Then Bailey picks him up and punches him.
"Luke O'Donnell should have run in and knocked him out cold. And he shouldn't have been sent off either because the officials are the ones that let that get out of control.
"If one of my players did that I'd expect him to be sent off and I would expect one of the Leeds boys to get stuck into my player immediately."
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, however, your opinion would only be valid if you had actually been there and seen the fight for yourself. Forming an opinion from a match report and a recording of the coaches comments probably isn't the best of ideas!
I understand why Nathan said what he did. He was angry, as was I, and so would you be if the thug, Ryan Bailey, had done exactly the same to your team. No one likes it. Nathan is probably right in the fact that O'Donnell could have gone straight him and knocked him out cold, but he didn't. Luke has settled down and he isn't as "nasty" as he was, therefore he didn't barge straight in and hit him like Browny suggested he should have. Bailey is the worst player in RL fighting-wise (not fact, opinion) and he fully deserved to be sent off as I am sure most Leeds fans would agree, also. You don't go around causing fights at 20-0 down. Leeds are in a bad patch at the minute and going around picking fights with every player is not going to help their cause.
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