Expect the Doc too get himself in hot water as he's bound to explode over this.

Cop it and don't kick up too much of a fuss.

The problem is you have businessmen putting a lot of money in and administrators running the game and taking a nice salary. Talk about biting the hand that feeds them. How many club proprietors have they fined this season for challenging them? The RFL think they are beyond criticism because they make the rules up as they go along to protect themselves.

We have to have rules were the ref is treated as if royalty. Players can't touch them. Whether Hock intended the outcome for me is irrelevant. 7 games seems harsh however when players guilty of dangerous tackles such as last years attack on Theo is treated so lightly

Wakey idiot????

How on earth is the a video from behind the sticks, ?????

not on sky, so only one camera at the ground , grow up and sod of back to your own web site.

Wow, just wow.

I'd hazard a guess that the Ref didn't do anything as he assumed an accidental collision, he wasn't watching hock as the hull player picked it up, and then bam. Video evidence later shows it appears deliberate (the only thing I can think of in any kind of defence is he mistook the ref for the hull player and went for the tackle to win a drop out? At least that's my interpretation watching the video)

Accidental collisions happen from time to time, they're not sin bin or red card worthy, or even mention worthy. Only upon reflection does it look deliberate, hence the rfl disciplinary step in, and they have done.

Fair deal for me, but you know, keep crying conspiracy

Sky Sports News - 7 match ban and a £300 fine.

Well that settled that debate.

The betting odd are on what brain fart Hock will do next.

I'm opting for something along the lines of a punch up. Something nice and normal. But you can get good odds on him picking up a further ban in the off-season too.

He's a right numpty, but as was said on the VT, he is the gift that just keeps giving. Looking forward to his next daft episode. Stay tuned.

You'd hope that someone at the club does all they can to reign in the Doc on this as he could not only get the ban extended but lose some of the backing he has.

Didn't look entirely deliberate as he was heading towards the ref, but it does look like he tries too flatten the ref so while 7 games might be harsh (and oddly that's the exact number of games we have left) there is no chance of getting it reduced.

Who's it going to be next week?

We're probably going to be appealing the decision, apparently.

Better off just accepting it. Move on and concentrate on the KR game. Just end up wasting more of Marwan's money on further hearing costs.

Not according to the below koukash tweet:

Not going to waste time and money on appealing. Hope our players make sure that Hock plays again this season. Let's move on

We need to move on & hopefully Harris will adopt a siege mentality. it worked well for Fergie! Whatever the rights & wrongs of the situation, lets move on & get behind the team this weekend.

It questions if it's becoming personal and that would be a major embarrassment for the sport.

He got 5 games last time so was always going to get more if it happened again. Disappointing but not the end of the world.