Re: Hock : Sun May 27, 2012 10:01 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

He is scum. I wouldn't say it to his face without reason as I'm a better person than him. He's a ticking timebomb and you know it.

Great player though so he's worth the risks!

He didn't do anything today that most players will do at some point in their careers by having a good ruck. He'll obviously get bad press about it due to his past but it won't bother him and he'll be back tormenting defences in a couple of weeks.

Non event really.

Re: Hock : Sun May 27, 2012 10:11 pm  

saint at wire wrote:

I like the reference to "silly stuff".

Sorry pete he is a thug and past proven / found guilty drug cheat - end of; and we don't need or want a thug no matter how good he is when he is behaving himself.

Gleeson was a "great player" as well but we got shut of him.

'Drug cheat' is the wrong turn of phrase as he was hardly taking performance enhancing drugs!

He received a lengthy ban for turning a ref by his elbow to make his point. Silly, and in my opinion a huge overreaction by the officials at Red Hall (considering the quality of referees I've no idea how any player respects them), but he served his time.

Yes he's a hot head and yes he's not the sharpest crayon on the box, but he's a fantastic player. If he wasn't teams wouldn't target him as much as they do. LMS went in with his head to wind him up, Hock reacted and got the better of him. As per the one that retaliates gets the ban - I hope the guys at Red Hall take a good look at that video and deliver the same punishment to LMS that they did to Hock.

You can tell that the Wigan players knew that LMS got away with at as they proceeded to smash him for the rest of the game.

Re: Hock : Sun May 27, 2012 10:14 pm  

Weekend Warrior wrote:

No doubt in my mind that Mr Personality Mike Rush sent those players out to sh1thouse with the Wigan players because you were losing

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There wasn't a hint of Saints players going out to 'sh1thouse' the wi*an players. At an ordinary scrum, Hock decided to play head hockey with LMS. When the scrum rises, Hock grabs the back of LMS's head and pulls it into his own. It then all goes off, with Hock lashing punches at LMS. That Magennis put a cheap one into Tuson was, of course, wrong. But that bit of action was secondary after Hock's starting pyrotechnics.

After it all broke up, McIlorum looked like a man possessed, whilst Finch dished out a late crunch on mild-mannered-janitor Shenton.

To try to portray all that as a plot by the Saints coaching pair to needle the wi*an players is sheer bobbins.

But, like Muggers said, didn't warrant any reds, just 3 yellows.

Re: Hock : Sun May 27, 2012 10:19 pm  

Oh dear what an embarrassing thread. Calling players scum is a joke, especially when the biggest coward today was in a Saints shirt.

Re: Hock : Sun May 27, 2012 11:57 pm  

SomersetSaint wrote:

Drug cheating vermin. Once scum always scum. Get him out of tge game, forever.

The type of drugs he used were not a type of cheating. What's "tge game"? It's like a not even half arsed attempt to have a drunken rant, clearly bitter, it's all you can handle. Hock played fantastically well today, Good lad him.