It doesn’t look criminal to me. One threw the ball and the other jumped to try and get the ball and they collided. Unfortunately, if somebody became seriously injured, but it looks like an accident to me.
Looks like an accident to me too. Neither player is wearing any kind of pads and as such both are susceptible to injury. It did not look harsh or deliberate. A bit freakish actually since it didn’t look all that hard to me.
Me either for the points you said. If he had come down on the Vella with a punch or clothesline attack, then yeah, but he didn’t,
Agreed. Even a professional athlete can only do so much while in mid-air at full speed. Terrible indeed, but it doesn’t look any more deliberate than many other collisions in a rough contact sport at this level of play.