Great player but has a peanut for a brain

Great Player....but VERY ugly.

Ican see his defense statement now - I was doing a rehearsal for a Specsavers Advert.

https://vine.co/v/Mx2LhEaVpeP

https://vine.co/v/Mx2LhEaVpeP

probably because the ref didn't know what the hell happened due to being blindsided into the first row of the stand by a cheap shot and everyone was following the ball

It's illegal to shoulder barge a player nowa days, so putting the shoulder in on the ref. Bit of a numpty.

As for those saying the ref did not do anything at the game.

Any chance he was doing his job and watching the play, not expecting to get taken out.

He can't assume it was deliberate. It's only on review he would see that hock puts the shoulder in.

Looking at that video clip! It's quite clear that Hock changes his line and heads for the Ref. If he'd kept to his original line he would n't have been anywhere near the Ref. Third offence of the same type full 8 may be more at discretion of the panel!

What a total tool will he ever learn I bet he has booked is hols for this week

Exactly. Unless he knows otherwise the referee has to assume that it was accidental. On review it is fairly obvious that Hock deliberately steps into him and drops the shoulder.

He's the gift that keeps on giving.

It's been a feature of his career; condemned by the RL world, with only the fans of whatever club he currently plays for trying to defend the indefensible.

The man's an idiot - pure and simple - and appears to have no capacity to learn from his mistakes; shame really, as he certainly has talent.

Having just watched the video Bilko put on twitter I'd like to know what happened in the next 5 seconds. Whether he stopped to apologise and helped the ref up and walked away. He looked off balance then braced for impact although I can understand the opinion that it was deliberate I'd like to look at the context before coming to an opinion rather than basing it on assumption. His reaction after would give a better indication of whether he meant it or not.

There is no doubting on his day he is a great player but it's one thing after another with this bloke. I have up on him at Wigan a long time ago. His reputation no doubt goes against him.

I'm sure it does, and rightly so, as if you didn't know the sort of stuff he's done before, like the gouging incident, your default position might be to assume nobody would be that stupid.

In fact it's clear enough what he does, and the "bracing for impact" I don't buy. If he'd caught the ball, he'd just have dived over the line. What was he doing continuing on at full speed, and changing his line, and dipping his shoulder? The collison was near the dead ball line. If he'd caught the ball, he wouldn't have been running that far, as he'd have run the ball dead. He could have avoided the ref altogether easily, he could have (and normally would have) been in the process of pulling up and getting back into the play, and in the unlikely case he thought he couldn't avoid a collision then he could have made it a "soft" coming together - like a decoy runner mistiming his run into a defender). There is no sensible explanation I can accept for what he so clearly does other than at that moment, in his head, he chose to do that deliberately. Nothing else fits, IMHO.