In the vain hope that this doesn't degenerate into pointless argument and trolling, I want to say I hope he can get over this, and recover.
That was a sickening incident, which could have disastrous results.

Crusher tackles are on a par with gouging in my opinion.

Any player guility should get a similar punishment.

The one last night was bad, right up until the point he decided to then piledrive him into the turf. Then it became abhorrent

Should have been a straight red.

Needs to book throwing at him big style.

Gildart could be looking at a long long lay off and I hope to god it is fixed quicker than clubbs was.

Yet over on the Leeds board some say Gildart was partly to blame. Scum.

What you are doing is the definition of trolling.

Ferres will probably get a ban but 3 other blokes played a part in that tackle.

You sir are Carl Ablett and I claim my £5

Nah Ablett would say he didn't see it as he had his hand in someones face. But all joking aside. I've seen much worse crusher tackles and seldom is any genuine action taken during the game. If Ferres gets a second punishment rhen fair enough. Hopefully Gildart makes a swift recovery.

Following on from Singleton's cheap shot Leeds are making quite a name for themselves.

If Wigan sent him back out purely to get an extra substitute then that in itself needs looking at. That's how it was explained by the Sky commentary team. It's a ridiculous rule. It was plain to see he was unable to carry on due to foul play and his welfare should have been put before a 'free sub' in my view.
As for Ferres, there was a comment on his twitter feed which said he apologised to Gildart. Probably as sincere as his marriage vows!!

I don't think whinging about what the Leeds fans are saying really cuts much ice, people in glass houses an all that.
But it was pretty bad and although there were other players involved in the tackle, I'm not sure they played much of a part in the execution of the actual crush, Ferres maneuvered Gildart in to the position for the crush to be likely, the rest were just bit parts, a good ban tbh.

Disgusting tackle and imo should have been straight red and a very long ban. It's a neck/breaker and imo cowardly tackle.

Wow.

I'd love to see the worse crusher tackles you've seen? Ferres literally hoisted him up and piledrivered him into the floor with intent to do serious damage.

My view of it is that the sub off is a free interchange but if he comes back on then that counts. I could be wrong but it's more likely the SKY team is.

I thought he had to come back on within 15 minutes to count as a free sub, if he doesn't come back on then it counts. By going back on it's a free sub but then he's taken off straight away so that would then count as a sub so evens itself out anyway. Doesn't make much sense to me.