I see that two Catalan players have been charged for offences during our match last Saturday. The most interesting charge though is against Gareth Hock who is charged with making deliberate contact with a match official. If there is anything in it they will throw the book at him taking into account his previous similar offence. I doubt we shall see him at the DW in a few weeks time.

As much as Hock can be a hot head, I think his last charge for this was a joke and no more of a contact then we see time and time again from a few players.

It looks really poor, fairly sure he could've got out of the way. Reckon he'll get a 5/6 game ban.

Ref lost the pea in his whistle apparently

The last time, he accidentally bumped in to the referee, whilst running back in to the defensive line on a very wet night.

Absolute bloody joke.

Is there any more in this charge?

Has anyone seen the footage? Obvious deliberate contact IMO he drops his shoulder and charges at the ref. what is wrong with him??

I've seen the video Bilko put on Twitter.

Looks deliberate to me, if he tripped or lost balance he would put his arms out to protect his fall but there's no attempt to do that. To me he's just had a brain fart - he steps away from play and in the direction of the ref, drops the shoulder, charges in and smashes him!

He's an absolute head case.

Wow.

If that's truly the case, then I would hope that he gets 6-8 matches, given his previous (even discounting the second one, he got 5 matches for grabbing the ref the first time).

Absolute moron.

Please don't post links to copyrighted material you do not have the copyright for - it gets the site into lots of trouble, thanks.

^ Apologies, I've seen it in more than one place on these forums already though.

Having just watched the video Bilko put on twitter I'd like to know what happened in the next 5 seconds. Whether he stopped to apologise and helped the ref up and walked away. He looked off balance then braced for impact. His reaction after would give a better indication of whether he meant it or not.

Well there it is - a 7 match ban. Did we get some money for this clown. A great bit of business if we did - we could easily have paid to have him off our hands.

That looked a bad one and nothing like the last. As Eastbourne Warrior writes, he looked off balance an was bracing for impact but just as easily, I could see that it could be a deliberate step towards the ref and shoulder charge.

Either very unlucky or very stupid!

Well, my Mortgage is on "stupid"
What a clown... he's lucky not to get [isine die[/i with his record.

I can't think of too many sportsmen who've wasted their career quite like Hock. He's so talented yet has never been able to fulfil his potential other then showing the off flash.

I always wonder if somebody like Mike Greg could have kept him on the straight and narrow? I doubt it though as he doesn't seem to have a brain that would allow him to respect anybody to that degree.