Deliberate attempt to injure a fellow professional player. Hope what goes around comes around.

He also can't seem to complete a tackle without finishing with his arm in a headlock on the tackled player.

I bet Wane is so proud of him.

Up to about 2 seasons ago Farrell was what I'd call a genuine quality second row forward. Worked hard, tackled hard and ran hard. However it seems that Mr wane has asked Farrell to be more " mongrel" over the past few seasons. I suspect he has been instructed to play this way as I don't remember it being part of his make up earlier in his career. What I intensely dislike about his play is the way he stands on players hands whilst moving to marker after making a tackle. Just plain cheap.

Poor man's Ben Currie.

Farrell epitomises what's wrong with modern rugby league. He's one of the top tacklers in the league, you'd think by that that he'd be a good defender, but he isn't. He just dives into any tackle as second or third man and lies on. Lies on and lies on and lies on some more. Might throw in the odd head lock or grapple tackle. Or knees the player in the head as he stands up to play the ball, oh, or another trademark of his when he stands on the players hands when he's trying to get up and play the ball.

Then goes hiding when the opposition look for him. Was even pushing players out of the way so he could be dummy half and not get tackled last night!

Of course none of this ever gets penalised. He's just a grub. That's it. He has no redeeming features as a player anymore which is a shame because I once thought he would turn out to be a really good player as he has decent pace and skill (or did have) for a back row forward (now you forget he ever had any of that because you just roll your eyes whenever he appears on screen so you miss anything good he ever does).

If each team had thirteen Farrell's this sport would be an unwatchable, slow, boring cross between Cumbrian wrestling, shin kicking and rugby of some sort and no fans would ever turn up to watch and Sky would bin us off completely.

Shaun O'Lie-on is just as bad. He used to be world class but now he's just another boring grub. I have a theory that the owners of Wigan are rugby union fans deep down so they have this club ethos of lying on and slowing down the game to turn fans of our sport away!

Why is anyone even surprised about this from a Shaun Wane coached team?
I was at the game and I have just watched it back and I've spent the whole time shaking my head at the gutter tactics from Wigan.
Not just the late knee to Ratch with intent to cause harm..There was a flying knee from Isa to Cox..! Incidentally Cox was hit with a couple of shoulder charges too and Joel Tomkins niggles on the ground and dragging tackling Warrington players off Wigan attackers..
Until the disciplinary do something about this it will continue simple.

Wigan fans defending an act of s"*thousing from their team!
there's a surprise!

I think the Wigan management suffer from the illusion that in days of old when many of their players were miners & worked hard & played hard that the present day crop of players ,groomed by Fadge then Wane, must also be "dead 'ard" & do unspeakable things to opponents. It would be much more pleasing for spectators of rugby league to see a skilful Wigan team than one that tries to intimidate.

I'm sorry but that's absolute b0llocks. You should try concentrating on your own team of angels like Benny Westwood, Ryan Bailey and Ashton Sims before making stupid claims about a player you watch a handful of times a year.

What did sims, Westwood or Bailey do last night that was bad? Sims lined a few up a coupon of times (and missed) but nothing wrong with looking for a big hit.

RL is a tough game, played by tough men and all spectators see genuine acts of mental and physical toughness on a weekly basis, that very few of us could contemplate attempting let alone enduring.

However, let's nip this in the bud. What Farrell did was not "tough", or "hard". It wasn't the act of an enforcer or an attempt to rough up a key opposition player in an attempt at gamesmanship, or to push the rules to attempt to provoke a reaction.

It was a pre-meditated attempt to injure a player who had already scored when he entered into the tackle, knees first. It was cowardly and petulant, and the sole motivation was, having failed to stop a try, to make damn sure the scoring player wasn't going to be around to repeat the dose. What was almost as unpalatable was his captain vociferously protesting his innocence with that snarling, wide-eyed, puritanical look so beloved of his put-upon team.

Case for the prosecution rests. Over to you RFL.

I actually agree with part of this, I think Bailey has been absolutely disgraceful every time he's pulled a Warrington shirt on, he's a disgrace to the badge and shouldn't be allowed to make another appearance after each and every despicable and sordid and cruel act that he's done in his brief time as a Warrington player.



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You can pack that in [iright now[/i. Ben Currie is headed for the very top, Farrell is passing him rapidly in the opposite direction.