Are you actually serious that there is nothing in this?

I have just seen the clip and deliberately puts the shoulder in, His season is over - What an absolute moron!

yep. he actually changes direction to barge him. absolute tool

Wonder if Barcelona might put in a bid?

Seeing the incident on TV makes it look like a completely different incident than it did st the game & from that footage I'd expect him to be found guilty.

It looked 100% innocuous at the game but the camera never lies as they say.

With Hock its always a case of Guilty until proved innocent, you just can't take the "Wigan Mongrel" out of this type of player.

Its a conspiracy. Everyone at the game including salford club, local journalists and all salford fans saw it clearly as an unfortunate accident. Either Sky have it in for him or the video evidence has been 'doctored' by someone else who wants rid.

So if it was a deliberate act and he's getting a Grade E charge, then why wasn't he sent off? Ian Smith sent him off for grabbing his hand. If he has supposedly shoulder charged Matt Thomason, why was he still allowed to stay on the field of play?

Not only was he not sent off but he wasn't even spoken to about it at the time. I was at the game and in real time there seemed to be absolutely nothing in it. Just looked like an accident collision. No getting away from the footage though, looks really bad. Just very strange how nothing was picked up at the time. Nobody even mentioned it really. I can only assume the match director or whatever they're called reported it.

Just seen the footage on that well known site and to say that he could have avoided contact with the ref would be an understatement.
It appears that
Hock may have thought that the guy in the yellow shirt had the ball.

What was he trying to do ??

Scoring under the posts?? Hock tried to pick the ball up on the run but the full back got there 1st. There then appears to be a deliberate step and a dipped shoulder into the ref. Been great for us this season but can't condone that (Although I did try to without 1st seeing the replay!).

where can you find the clip because I must of missed it when it was on sky?

having seen your second post on the subject have retracted my origanal reply

at the game it looked nothing but an accident, but on second viewing, he should be banned until next season!

According to sporting life Hock's deliberate collision caused the ref to lose the pea in his whistle, surely thats a 6 match minimum ban.

The angle from far back looks worse than the close up one doing the rounds.

If you look at the close up one, he gets his hand to the ball as it flies by but can't drag it in. At the very same time, due to the speed Shaul is coming across at he tries to drag it in and past Shaul to step in the other direction and score rather than just plowing over the top of him. It seems like an attempt at being clever that's gone wrong.

The only thing I can't understand is the motion and dipping to tackle the ref after. Think there is some mitigation as to why they ended up colliding but his attempt to pull out leaves a lot to be desired.

I'll go for 5 games.