Quote: SmokeyTA "what about if he had a knife or gun? What about if he had a samurai sword and cut him.
Things that didn't happen aren't much use to a real life situation. Whataboutery is the last refuge of the lost argument.
Ben Flower hit a man who was unconscious. Everything else was part and parcel of the game. Happens all the time. Sometimes halves barge in to props. Sometimes props get mad and punch halves.
nobody ever hits unconscious people because it is a dangerous, cowardly dog act of the highest order.
Regardless of the your reasons for getting angry, regardless of their merits, when your anger manifests itself in punching a fellow pro who is unconscious YOU screwed up. No justification, no mitigation.'"
Has it been confirmed anywhere that he was unconscious? On the video it seems as though his right hand is up in apparent self defence.
Not to say it wasn't fully deserving of a red card and all, it just doesn't look as though he's unconscious to me, and he was moving about after Flower stepped over him.