Whats everyones thoughts?

Just been reading the topic on the VT and i find it amazing how we can be so biased about our team. We are all the same i suppose. but it just makes good reading.
To listen to some Wigan fans Hock is almost a choirboy as opposed to the thick loon everyone else sees.
McGennis is scum apparently for hitting a bloke with his back to him but yet Mossop hits him from behind/the side while he is fighting someone else and he is a legend for defending his team mate?
Saints fans see nothing wrong with what LMS did yet Wigan lay all the blame with him and claim "he was at it all the game".
These were the same fans who were slating the Cas fans trying to defend Chase the other week. Coming out with the old "If one of our players had done that i wouldnt try to defend them" line. Blinkered, the lot of us i tell ya!!

For what its worth i think they will get the following:
Hock - 2 games (depending how this clashes with the exiles game!)
Tusson - 1 game
McGennis - 2 games
Mossop - 1 game
LMS - Nothing

10/15 years ago, a yellow apiece for Hock & LMS to try and calm things down.

It was meant to be the showcase match of a great weekend and ended up as a scene straight out of a pub car park at closing time. Not a good advert for the game and further proof, if any were needed, that Gareth Hock is a germ - I said the other week that he was a ticking time bomb that would blow up in Wigan's face - I was right.

It was Mossop who blind sided someone and ran off again behind his pals, wouldn't of been able to see who it was if it wasn't for recording the game.

The general view seems to be that Magennis slotted Tuson on the back of the head as he walked away, prompting Tuson to go off like a Tasmanian devil and Mossop to give him a sly dig from deep cover - that's how he ended up on his jacksie.

I expect all of the above to get a ban and LMS to face no action; the RFL should be furious that a couple of thugs managed to spoil a showcase weekend of mostly excellent RL, although I doubt they can reflect damage to the reuptation of the game in their sentencing, mores the pity.

yes that's what I meant. Magennis should be picked out for me. I know Tuson will get a ban for the number of strikes but Magennis started something there that would never have happened without his intervention. I probably wouldn't have been quite as adept as he was but I think I would have reacted aggresively to someone blind siding me like that.

Yes I was talking about the last shot when it all had calmed down a bit. Whatever went down though it was all very needlessly ugly and it was no surprise that Hock was in the middle of it.

Lee Mossop: Rule: 15.1(a) Detail – Punching Grade B MRP - Referred to tribunal (1-2 matches)

Chris Tuson: Rule: 15.1(a) Detail – Punching - Sustained Grade C MRP - Referred to tribunal (2-3 matches)

Gareth Hock: Rule: 15.1(a) Detail – Punching Grade B MRP - Referred to tribunal (1-2 matches)

Shaun Magennis: Rule: 15.1(a) Detail – Punching – Violent/Sustained Grade D MRP - Referred to tribunal (3-5 matches)

Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook: Player becomes involved in confrontation with opponent but does not throw punches. MRP - NFA

My prediction -

Lee Mossop: 1 match

Chris Tuson: 3 matches

Gareth Hock: 2 matches (although I think it might only be 1... lets see!)

Shaun Magennis: 4 matches (if they give Tuson 3... if they give Tuson only 2 then I think Magennis will only get 3)

LMS has no case to answer... which is obvious to the unbiased!

i dont understand these folk who say 'i dont like it when they fight' 'its not what we want to see'

i might be on my own here but i love watching a good tear up, in fact half the reason i watch origin is cos it could kick off at any given moment.

more fights bring back the Biff

To be fair, I don't think it will do the sports reputation any harm - maybe even have the opposite effect, i'm sure there were plenty of fans of other sports who tuned in who enjoyed the biff more than the confusing (in their uneducated eyes) action on the field.

If there had been any spitting/biting/gouging then I would agree, but punch ups happen even in the other code and it doesn't seem to have upset their caviar swilling fans, so hopefully no harm done eh?

so nobody thinks 3 red cards was a bit of an overreaction by Thaler?

I thought incidents like this were what the sin bin was for. If it hadn't have kicked off I don't think Hock would have been red carded - and i am not his biggest fan. Think actions of Magennis were possibly the only one that may have merited red.

Lighten up - it's part of the game. Sorry if you don't like it or your frightened of upsetting this mystical set of fans who will walk away at the first sign of a fight.

Who the hell cares what the Union based media think, have we not moved on from that - why so insecure. Anyway Union has just as many fights and good luck to them.

You must be new to the game or have a very selective memory, because it's nothing like as bad as it was in the 1970's and before.

Football has been made unbearably soft and tiresome by this OTT reaction to a bit of biff, no way should we let our game be ruined by the same set of Guardian reading muesli troffers.

Thuggery and a punch up on the paddock are not the same.

And this was thuggery; totally unnecessary, completely unprovoked and utterly pointless given the situation in that particular game.

I don't buy this insouciant attitude towards the media - like it or not, the game needs more positive media exposure and given that the Independent chose to re-hash the Hull FC drug scandal the day before the MW kicked off, it's easy to see the mountain we have to climb in that respect.

It's not the 1970's any more; the world and the game has moved on - unlike some RL fans, I don't think that's a bad thing.

Hock deserves all he gets coming to him, he started it by using his nut before losing it and chinning LMS