Naaa, if you get the house and bank balance then the girlfriend has to come with them!

For 5 unanswered punches? You are joking right? That'd have got you a red in the Skerrett era.

All it demonstrated is you can easily wind up Giants players, they react violently causing no harm to the opposition & get sent off. That'll teach 'em.
As for the suggestion that one team was dirty & the other on the receiving end is naive to the point of stupidity.

Maybe, as we usualy have 12 men anyway when we hand them their backsides ....it was a plan of ours to have a man sent off...that was probably a great tactic by Baloo cos we know they dont beat us with 12 men !

Every team one way or another has had a player who loses their rag and punches out. It's part of the game and has been for years and will be here for more years to come. Some teams retaliate back and others let it go just like Leeds and Ablett did on Saturday. The only people who know what went on in the tackle and the aftermath are Wardle and Ablett.

It was probably a sending off as Ablett didn't fight back, if he had done then it could've been a sin binning for both players. Some comments on this thread are laughable, Wardle saw red over something Ablett said or did to him and punched out. For whatever reason and I'm guessing maybe a cool head from Ablett, he didn't retaliate giving his team a numerical advantage for the remainder of the game which in the end mattered for nothing.

Good on Wardle for going for it though. As Anderson has said it will make a man of him and he'll learn from the experience and hopefully become a better player for it. It was a good game and a credit to RL and fingers crossed we can continue to build on the fantastic start we've had to the season.

Or it demonstrated that you can punch a Leeds player in the head 5 times and he won't react because they are a bunch of wusses. I know there is a consensus of opinion that Ablett was in some way "clever" for getting Wardle sent off but if you stand there and let yourself get punched all you are doing is throwing any momentum you might have away and giving a lift to your opponents. Had Ablett battered Wardle then it would have lifted Leeds and dropped our spirits.

I'm not advocating players starting fights to swing the momentum of games like you see in the NHL but really Ablett should've walked away if he wasn't going to get involved because winding Wardle up and then letting him punch him was the dumbest thing I've seen even if Wardle did get sent off.

nope.

and reports in todays paper was that it was in retaliation to a knee to the face from ablett on wardle, he had a big shiner after the game.

like i say very unlike wardle to lose his temper.

That's Ablett's card marked forever. He's never going to wind anyone up in future. They will just laugh at him, knowing he hasn't got the balls to back up his mouth.

maybe he didnt retaliate after he knew he had put the knee into wardles face

Being a Leeds gobe he was obviously waiting for one of his mates to come and sort Joe out .....Delaney obliged with Ablett smiling away like he'd got one over on him...TBF to Joe though he was still belting him with Delaney wrapped round his throat.

He is not hitting him, he is pulling his hair.

Nice braids on Saturday.

He didn't retaliate coz he is soft. He should ask Leroy for some tips.