I agree, calling someone a f'king pussy isn't in the least homophobic, pretty low down on the scale of language in fact even with the addition of the blown kiss (which was a bit weak as it happens).
The RFL would need to be absolutely sure before making any decisions, on what has being shown it is not entirely clear as to what was said and unless they want to explode things further (doubtful) it may well end with a ticking off because the legal ramifications of any dubious evidence could impinge hugely on the sport as a whole.

It's not clear what he says from the video clip posted or to those who have the game recorded. If you state you 'know' he said 'Puff', you're a) lying, or b) allowing team or player bias to cloud your judgement, even subconciously. The same goes for those who 'know' he didn't say 'puff', but rather something else.

If the RFL feel an investigation is necessary, that's fine. An investigation is just that - they want to find out the truth of what's happened, and realistically there's nothing wrong with that. I'm sure we all want to know the truth, and I'm sure the RFL have access to many more angles and recordings of the incident than we do, so it's hopeful they will find out the truth moreso than any of us guessing.

I am interested in how this came to their attention - a complaint from the referee or another player is understandable, but if it was people complaining on social media, whilst I'm not complaining about that exactly, I do wonder if it only counts for verbal abuse fans believe they saw, or if it could be anything in the frame of a game. How many times have we shouted that a tackle was high, or dangerous, that someone has committed a professional foul, yet the referee hasn't seen it? If we make enough threads about it on RLFans, or complain on Twitter, will that also lead to the player in question being 'under investigation'? I'd not being sarcastic, I genuinely wonder if this is something that would happen. If not, why?

so as swearing at other players is classed as foul and abusive language, should no action be taken by the referee can we, as fans, ask for it to be investigated?
or foul play? or anything we don't like?

Think it was Flanagan bending his leg right back, Hardaker effectively responding, "is that the best you can do?"

it only says that if you can't read.

what does your lawyer say on the matter?

you know, the one that said he was ok last time and there was no case to answer?

Do you know for certain that no player reported it or that it wasn't in the ref's report?

Even if that was the case, the RFL review every game anyway so it could have been picked up then.

This suggestion that he is being investigated purely because of what has been said on the Internet is ridiculous.

If the RFL charge hardaker again Id like to see this dragged to the court of arbitration for sport. He has been subjected to trial by twitter and our clueless administrators have just jumped on a PC bandwagon. If he charged for calling a player thats just tried to injure him a prick the RFL will need to ban any player caught swearing in any game. No one would be able to put a team out within a fortnight.

The RFL have proved just how clueless they are tonight by clearing Liam Farrell of a shocking high late challenge.

Lol at the Leeds fans in this thread

Regards

King james

He's not being investigated for swearing or calling someone a pri**. He's being investigated if he made homophobic comments.

Leeds wouldn't have a case if they took it to court. He's not had a trial, so how is it trial by twitter? If he's charged by the RFL THEN he gets a trial.

Although I agree on Liam Farrell incident, no idea how he's escaped that.

You are talking about criminal proceedings which has already been proven otherwise.

I was talking about none criminal decision making, were similar fact evidence has been used for a long time.

I used to use it myself. But like I said this was not in a criminal setting.

It’s been a while since I visited this thread, I found it highly amusing on the night, but then it became a tad tedious.

To be honest I became bored of the pseudo disgust & blind loyalty. What next, the illegitimate lobby getting on someone’s back when some player’s called a B@std, or maybe the female genitalia crew being outraged.

However on revisiting, am I led to believe that some people are of the opinion that the ranting’s of certain posters on here are responsible for Hardaker being investigated

...is that like "some of my friends are gay"?