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Late 70's Early 80's the cleanup begain. |
Cronulla's Dane
Sorensen was sent from the field for this tackle on Wests Les
Boyd, yet Cronulla's No10 Steve
Kneen escaped any form of punishment for his tackle on Western
Suburbs 2nd Rower Geoff Foster -- why you ask.
"played 23/8/1978 it think" .. Quigs
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Take No Prisoners
Cronulla Hardman Steve
Kneen 10, airborne, taking out Wests Geoff Foster. From
right to left possibly John Purcell Wests, Dane
Sorensen and Greg Pearce taking out Boyd I believe whilst
Referee Jack Danzey (a former Balmain and Shark player) looks on.
Obscured behind danzey it looks like Pat Hundy
pic sent to Team Era by Jon Sloan...(thanks Mate)
Dane Sorensen cops
4 weeks - Steve Kneen none.
- From a Sharks, West clash 23 August 1978.
Referee Jack Danzey marched Dane
Sorensen for his tackle but obviously missed the Kneen
- Foster incident. Sorensen appeared before the League Judiciary and
was suspended for four weeks.
At approximately this point in time the League gave permission to
the clubs to be allowed to use video evidence in the case of citing
players for foul illegal play. Dane Sorensen wanted to use the video
in an effort to clear his charge but was unable to use it because
it incriminated Steve Kneen.
The story goes that the Sharks threatened to use 'their' video evidence
to cite a few of the Magpie players if West decided to proceed with
charges against Kneen. A Mexican standoff resulted and Foster, who
at the time was a serving member in the NSW Police Force contemplated
taking civil action against Kneen for injuries received. It was believed
that West asked him not to proceed.
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| This is the old RLW article from
the August 26th, 1978 edition
The heading of the story was "I WANTED TO SUE"
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A pic of Geoff Foster after the game and the article
that appeared in the RLW -
Sent to Team Era by Dean Gibson of Newcastle NSW..
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(from the Story of Australian Rugby League by Gary Lester)
In 1980, the NSWRL introduced stronger measures to combat violence
on the football field. Jim Comans became the new chairman of the judiciary,
and the League altered its constitution to provide that the chairman
of the judiciary must be qualified as barrister or solicitor of the
Supreme Court. Comans brought the courtroom to judiciary nights and
stronger penalties for illegal play, the most severe among them being
12 months and 15 months suspensions for Les
Boyd, 15 months for Wests Bob Cooper, and 13 months for
Cronulla forward Steve Kneen.
MORE PICS OF STEVE KNEEN BELOW OR VISIT HIS PAGE - CLICK
HERE
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There are just some referees who you can
never forget
pic courtesy of Black White and Blue
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