In his post match interview on the BBC, on the subject of the Flower sending off, Nathan Brown says something along the lines of it not being the first time he has picked on a smaller guy, I had the opinion that Flower was quite squeaky clean (for a prop) and was not prone to this kind of repeat behaviour.

Anyone remember the previous incident to which he refers?

Known better, what than to state the truth? Who really cares if peacock has thrown plenty of punches, he's never knelt down on top of someone who's out, put his forearm across them and smashed them in the face again so it's irelevant.

" surprised nobody has mentioned Masoe running in and trying to hit flower from behind"
Especially when the norm seems to be that any retaliation is treated more harshly that of the perpetrator. I.E. Pettybourne defending himself at the wire game. But,hey, Mr.Bentham had a good unbiased game?

Masoe couldn't charge in anywhere if his life depended on it.

He may have lumbered on over, and got there as fast as he could.

Why do you persist in telling us all what he did? I saw it, OK? That is why he is rightly being charged with the most severe grade of offence possible. How does the fact that Peacock hasn't done something as bad make his comments any more sensible in such an inflamed situation? The fact is, any player trying to make things worse for Flower needs to keep his mouth shut, particularly one who knows damn well he's got away with more than his own fair share in the past. Isn't there also a possibility that an attempted forearm smash to the face is a criminal offence? Strange that Peacock missed that.....

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