Well done to Ben Flower and the Wigan club who have issued an apology inside less than 24 hours since the unsavoury incident took place.

This is in stark contrast to Zak Hardaker and the Leeds club whose apologetic response to the homophobic abuse of an official took 6 days!

If the majority of leeds fans had laughed off the flower incident you'd be on here claiming you expected nothing less from fans who condoned homophobic abuse and what flower did was a disgrace.

You're like a robot, thou shalt have the opposite stance of whatever the popular opinion of leeds fans is. You've not made one single remark on what flower actually did you've just tried to draw comparisons with the hardaker incident to troll leeds fans, yet you roundly condemned hardaker.

He's a troll. You know he's a troll. He's being doing this pathetic troll act for over a decade.

Why are you still responding to him?

Just pointing out the transparency of his modus operandi.

Remind me who made these comments guys?

"This has been totally out of character"

"Everybody is capable of making mistakes, that is my reaction to everybody in life."

Oh. Dear the fat contoller. Has spoken

Nigel wood clear signs that it will be brushed under the carpet

Was it the same bloke who recently emailed all Super League clubs calling for Todd Carney's registration in Super League to be blocked on the grounds that any other course of action would severely damage the integrity of Super League? The same bloke who only a few weeks earlier had accused the RFL of a witch hunt against one of his players, comments which were deemed prejudicial to the integrity and interests of the game?

You mean that bloke?

Flower's a turd. Pure and simple. A cheapshot merchant playing in a team "coached" by a guy with an I.Q. similar to one of their famous meat n tatter pies.

I missed the eloquent live after match interview offering a Wigan's perspective. Perhaps someone else saw it?

Didn't your incredibly smart, near MENSA-level IQ coach once get himself sent off in a CC Semi-Final and subsequently banned for an uncalled for attack on opposition players?

None of them were unconscious on the floor when he was hitting them.

And, just for the record before any Bradford fans chirp up, none of them were afterwards either.

Standing over an unconscious man and striking him in the head.

Good job the Leeds club don't employ anyone with a record for doing that and then dancing "Rocky Balboa" style over him afterwards.

Ben Flower is a big, aggressive lump with a nasty temperament on the field and a mean streak a mile wide.

I'd have him at Leeds in a heartbeat.

Ben Flower wouldn't have looked out of place at Leeds when the late and great Graham Murray was coach.

I agree and if Wigan do decide to cut their losses, Leeds ought to be first in the queue at signing him before a team like Huddersfield does.

I doubt Wigan will do anything of the sort. But yes, if they did, I'd be happy to see him here. He'd be close to the top of my list of UK-based forwards to buy if I had a blank chequebook anyway.

I'd like our pack to be a bit nastier.

rlFair bit of provocation here!rl

Not that it absolves Flower from that second punch to an already poleaxed Hohaia but it does confirm to me that Hohaia is a nasty little grub who fully deserved the first response.