Quote: wigan pie man "just got on after going then watching the replay....chasing a bomb Flower clatters into Hohaiha (prob spelt wrong but I cba learning how to spell opposition players names)..Hohaiha chases him back, runs offside to attack Flowers head...Flower jumps up and hits him......now at this point had Lance not had a glass jaw we would have had handbags and 2 players in the sin bin...but he did have a glass jaw and went down like a bag of **** .....what happened next is inexcusable and a red card was in order. Wane agrees post match it was a red. 3-4 matches for striking an opponent'" 'What happened next'....was sickening thuggery punching an unconscious player unable to defend himself on the floor square in the face in front of a 70,000 crowd and a few million watching on Sky Sports around the world. Flower is a disgrace and should get at least a 6 match ban. www.sportal.com.au/league/news/w ... 0vnclt97i3?

Quote: wigan pie man "just got on after going then watching the replay....chasing a bomb Flower clatters into Hohaiha (prob spelt wrong but I cba learning how to spell opposition players names)..Hohaiha chases him back, runs offside to attack Flowers head...Flower jumps up and hits him......now at this point had Lance not had a glass jaw we would have had handbags and 2 players in the sin bin...but he did have a glass jaw and went down like a bag of **** .....what happened next is inexcusable and a red card was in order. Wane agrees post match it was a red. 3-4 matches for striking an opponent'" 'What happened next'....was sickening thuggery punching an unconscious player unable to defend himself on the floor square in the face in front of a 70,000 crowd and a few million watching on Sky Sports around the world. Flower is a disgrace and should get at least a 6 match ban. www.sportal.com.au/league/news/w ... 0vnclt97i3?

Probably right 3 to 4 matches, what would add for the assault afterwards 6 to 8 matches maybe.

Good to see wane getting what his cynical "be reckless" approach deserves at last.

You can lay that loss squarely at his door, well done Shaun!

and still wound up with no trophy.

Scoreline suggests otherwise.

But your 12 did indeed play well in a losing side to the champions St Helens.

Thanks Waney!

No played BETTER

Congrats on winning the played better in defeat cup, waney will be proud.

Thanks Shaun!

I guess that's the just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.

But I'm sure the history books will remember

saints 14 : 6 wigan (but wigan played better).

How you're still posting on Rlfans after your comments on the VT about depression I don't know.

Lets put this in the context of Boxing. Hitting a KO'd opponent during the count would get you a life ban. Easy!!!.

Yea because boxing isnt corrupt its probably the cleanest sport on the face of the planet....

To be fair, what else could Wane say? He's said it was a deserved sending off, but of course he's got to support his player. I'd imagine that behind closed doors Wane's stringing him up!

I was at the game & I've watched the incident several times on youtube. Flower does Lance, Lance does him back (them two incidents are penalties, sin bin at the most), Flower sparks Lance clean out.

The above isn't pretty viewing, but it's a mans game and these incidents happen. But to then lean over and smack a player who's already sparked out is incredibly dangerous. His head has got nowhere to go. It can't jolt back, and the force of the punch cannot be absorbed down the body. Forget about facial fractures...the chances of suffering a brain injury are quite high in that situation. And that's unforgivable. If you think I'm going over the top then you're an idiot.

He lost you game (because other than that you were excellent), he embarrassed the sport (the games gone but that youtube link will fly around the internet), and he could have potentially put a player in a wheelchair.

It's a proper man's game, but they weren't the actions of a real man.

Interesting stats...



It's a shame that the Flower incident will mar this game and prevent us talking about what a great battle ensued between 13 v 12 and how well those remaining players dug in to produce stats like that.

Some people are too keen to blame the entire Wigan club when it was Flower who let them down and the remaining players who had to battle on then best they could. They didn't do anything wrong and in fact did their club proud.