Hock. It's pretty clear cut he's done it. So what happens here? Make an example or somehow make an excuse for it?

Example.

A 10 game ban minimum would be just about right for the eye gouging plus 1 game for striking.

IMO that's not making a example of him, it is just what should happen regardless of the player or the team he plays for.

Example, there are no excuses for it.

It's wigan so very little action

They simply need to match the RFU.

Ten match ban . Suspended until end of 2018 season .

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.