Hastings has picked up a 1 match ban for reacting to Josh Jones’ play acting.

Greenwood also picked up a 3 match ban for them, can’t say I noticed anything worthy of that.

Sounds about right

Brilliant. Our only creative player banned. Least Lam’s got 10days to come up with an excuse

EDIT : Missed Fridays fixture.

I remember it happened just in front of me and they just seemed to be messing about. Appeal?
Never rains but it pours!

10 days? We play on Friday don’t we?

That we do. I missed it and skipped to Wakey next weekend.

FFS

What do we do now?

Hanley at full back. Halsall (if available) or McDonnell in the centres with Bibby back to the wing?

hanley to 6 and smith to FB with this idiot

Marshall will play FB no doubt.

The ban is for trying to drag Josh Jones to his feet after an injury. I’ve just had a look at it and at first it felt like it was going to be a friendly gesture but he does drag at his shirt a bit before letting go. The fact he’s had a running battle with Jones throughout the game probably hasn’t helped him. The players heads look gone at the minute, with the silly bans we’re picking up just highlighting that.

I can't quite believe how the game is these days !! Players banned for next to nothing and I'm not just on about wigan players. The game is being spoilt by all this nonsense

I absolutely agree in the main but I think this ban is warranted tbh. They’re hot on head injuries and rightfully so. Josh Jones went down holding his face and Hastings knows he shouldn’t be trying to drag a bloke to his feet, even more so with a head injury.

The ridiculous yellow card for KPP is the sort of decision that is spoiling the game. This incident is something Hastings should’ve known better on IMO.

We would be baying for blood if an opposition player picked up a Wigan player with a potential head injury and rightfully so.

I'd be annoyed if said Wigan player was milking it like Jones was. He took an elbow to the nose. It was pretty clear to everyone that he was fine and was playing for time. If he was sparked out on the floor, you'd have a point but he wasn't.

Part of a wider issue here imo. The players know they can milk stuff like this because the powers that be are terrified of concussions, regardless of the negative impact it's having on the game. Doesn't help that all the officials sit in their echo chamber telling each other how well their doing, even when the game is going to the dogs.

I have to say the amount of play acting going on in the game at the moment is bordering on the farcical. The players don't appear to be aware that it's turning supporters off in their droves and, ultimately, it will be their livelihoods that will suffer. They seem to absolve themselves of all responsibility to play the game according to the values of the sport and it's supporters. To put it in a nutshell, we aren't football fans (in the main) for a reason and the players need to recognise that their paying audience doesn't want to see this fakery.

I don't think it helps that the referees aren't applying the rules consistently either. The ref claimed on Sunday that he didn't stop the game for the Sam Powell injury because he didn't regard it as a head injury then stopped the game when a Huddersfield player quite clearly had a knock to his back. You find heads in funny places these days!