Needs to be a lengthy ban. No place for this behaviour in RL.

Incidently, the RFL view biting the same as gouging (E-F offence 4-8 matches or 8+ depending on severity). I would have thought gouging, with the potential to seriously injure someone, would have been viewed as more serious (not saying that biting isn't disgusting as well.)

Does anyone have any idea if this has happened before and what the outcome was?
If it's as clear cut as described then it has to be wosre that what Howell got for biting because although both a sh#*-house antics Gouging is the worse of the 2 imo.

A London Skolars player was banned for 4 games last year for gouging.

I think he should be punished 'old school' stylie and made to do load of lines...

Just when you thought rugby players couldn't possibly get any dafter up pops Gareth Hock.

No way should Hock be available until sometime 2012 after that.

He will say he didn`t know what he was doing as he was on drugs at the time.

Right . That's the ref's excuse for letting him stay on the pitch . What's Hock's excuse ?

Yep that's roughly what I was thinking too.

Biting might seem less severe when compared to gouging, but you need to consider that if you successfully break skin, you run a severely high risk of transferring disease. Let's say for example that a player is HIV positive, he might not even know it at the time, that's no reason for him not to play the sport, but it's the kind of thing that can be transferred with such transgressions.

I think the RFL are absolutely right to see it as serious as gouging, it's their classification of bans (4-8games for Grade E, 8+ games for Grade F), which I think probably need to be reviewed.

Hock another cheap shot merchant and coward............