He said...

There you go again with this "sucker punching" nonsense. It might make you feel a little more self righteous to describe it this way, but to everyone else you look like a clueless idiot. Here's a tip, if a large bloke has hold of you - right in front of your face - after you've just slapped one of his mates, you need to f*****g pay attention to him. Garbutt gave him so much warning he could have called the ambulance, booked into hospital and ordered his meal before he was hit.
Maybe he's used to handing out the slaps rather than getting anything back.

Jesus Chris, what is this? Mumsnet?

I haven't read the full thread (too lazy) but for mine:

1) When Flower first smacked Hohaia he deserved it, it was the second punch that was way out of order which means these two incidents are not in any way comparable.

2) This is Rugby League... when did it turn into wendyball? It's the aggressive and violent nature of the sport that makes it so inviting for a majority of us. If I wanted to watch a load of skillful blokes playing a team game I'd be at Elland Road every other week (insert own joke here)

I'm going to bookmark this thread and then resurrect the responses next time a Leeds player gets biffed and there's an outbreak of hypocritical faux outrage.

Students, Aussies and vegetarians.

Axis of evil.

You might not need to. Only 3 days til we play Catalans.

I'm a Leeds fan. My view of the Hohoia/Flower incident is unbiased, unlike yours. In fact, between Wigan and Saints I've far less ill will towards Saints. We always beat you in finals, unlike Wigan.

However, I've changed my mind on one thing. Hohoia deserved the second smack. He was a grubby little player around the ruck and if you act like he did during his time in Super league these things tend to come to you.

I don't think Willie Mason is capable of ending anyone's career these days as he did that evening in Sydney. The Subway Franchisee was never the same after that.

the 2 incidents of flower an garbutt entirely different

where garbutt was stupid was reducing our already depleted squad

As long as you remember this thread wasn't started by a Leeds fan bragging about how Garbutt "owned" someone etc......

As long as you bookmark the 2015 GF thread too....oh wait you disappeared for that.

That's how a fight should be delt with two yellow cards.

That said its a carbon copy of the garbutt incident so should be a couple of bans, but who knows with the RFL

How was it a carbon copy?