I agree absolutely with 'Anozira', 'Johnkendal' and 'comeonyouWolves'. Nothing as bad as this, but all season Wigan have gone out to rough up the opposition and take it close to the illegal. Very clear in the games against Leeds and you could say it worked. Of course it's a tough game but if you go too far it can take away some of the skill and perhaps it's no surprise that something like this happens eventually. Perhaps a part of the blame should fall on shoulders other than that of the player himself.

I have also wondered for some time why yellow cards are not used more often. If they were such an approach might not seem quite so attractive.

Agree with this, the whole talk was cringeworthy and no coach should be telling their players to go knock the f*** out of someone!

Ten match ban. ... Make it double digit to satisfy the outraged. ..

And a one match ban for hohia which he can EGP so as to not miss a match. .... if he's not punished it will be open season on elbowing someone off the ball.

I agree with Sallys comment above about if it was Origin. ..I wanted to mention this to the "outraged" on Twitter like Andrew Voss et al... they are almost in despair over their when a brawl happens in the NRL Because its all push and shove and no one throws any punches. Yet as soon as a pom does it he's a grub or a thug.
one even compared it to russel packers assault that got him sent to jail despite that being in a night club and he stamped on the blokes head. ...

Some massive over reactions by some people. ..

Let's hope this doesn't happen in the four nations. ...I imagine a few more eyes will be on this event ..... and we don't want that do we

There has been a massive over reaction to this but the publicity is great for the sport, people pretend that they are outraged but they loved seeing a bit of biff in RL again as the resulting publicity proves.

I cant take anything a footballer says seriously as if a convicted rapist can start playing football again then who are they to look at our sport with fake outrage, but they only seem to add to the publicity as Twitter is the go to place for high profile opinions on this matter for some reason!

The second punch was out of order and he will be rightly banned for a long time but he has apologised and lost his team the GF against their biggest rivals!

+1
Just rewards, had that had gone on report, Wane wouldn't be giving a hoot!
Had that had have been Hock there would be no apology either.
It matters little now he's apolologised that he gets a lengthy ban or not as the spoils rightly went to Sts, the panel should take that into consideration. It seems unfare that he receives the same ban as Hock!

Very surpised at the decisions of the disciplinary panel.
Bowen, O'Loughlin and Powell all escape further punishment. Wigan mustn't be a dirty team then.....

Joking aside, I am worried about the way things are going.
Powell will deservedly get a big ban but the RFL can hardly do anything else in the circumstances.
Some of those other decisons though.... would you really want your son or daughter playing anything other than touch rugby in the current atmosphere?