Re: Ben Flower : Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:36 pm  

Strangely though he would have known the camera's where there. So what would he say without anyone filming??

I get the get stuck into them, you need to hit em hard and let them know you are not going to take a backwards step.

But saying go knock em out, Thugby is not just a clever pun, it's actually the Wigan way.

Re: Ben Flower : Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:44 pm  

Dally wrote:

That is disgraceful. He's inciting crime IMO. The Chairman needs to wield the axe.

Rubbish. Don't be so soft. It's nothing more than you'll hear in RL dressing rooms every week, talk to hype the team up, get their aggression and intensity going, to dominate physically. And it's a lot milder than some dressing rooms I've been in.

If you think they actually then go out and try to knock people out, you're an idiot, pure and simple.

Tell you what, given that this highly drilled Wigan team are apparently being coached to 'knock people out', they're not doing a very good job. One or two a year at best. Need to up their game.

Re: Ben Flower : Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:14 pm  

It doesn't surprise me that Wigan's coach and fans are defending this action, one of the worst acts of cowardly violence i've ever seen anywhere never mind a professional sports field !they would find a way to defend a Wigan player that killed someone.....and they wonder why 99% of RL fans cannot abide their club...For gods sake take off your Cherry and White specs and imagine it was a member of your family that got attacked while laid unconscious and then decide if you would still defend that person !!.

If they do actually stand by and defend this then i'm afraid they really are a horrible vile club !!

Re: Ben Flower : Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:19 pm  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

It doesn't surprise me that Wigan's coach and fans are defending this action, one of the worst acts of cowardly violence i've ever seen anywhere never mind a professional sports field !they would find a way to defend a Wigan player that killed someone.....and they wonder why 99% of RL fans cannot abide their club...For gods sake take off your Cherry and White specs and imagine it was a member of your family that got attacked while laid unconscious and then decide if you would still defend that person !!.

If they do actually stand by and defend this then i'm afraid they really are a horrible vile club !!

Show me where Wane or any fans have defended Flower's actions please.

I await your reply.

Re: Ben Flower : Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:36 pm  

Wigg'n wrote:

Show me where Wane or any fans have defended Flower's actions please.

I await your reply.

Wane, no, but plenty of Pie fans have been blaming the whole thing on Hohaia.

Re: Ben Flower : Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:39 pm  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

It doesn't surprise me that Wigan's coach and fans are defending this action, one of the worst acts of cowardly violence i've ever seen anywhere never mind a professional sports field !they would find a way to defend a Wigan player that killed someone.....and they wonder why 99% of RL fans cannot abide their club...For gods sake take off your Cherry and White specs and imagine it was a member of your family that got attacked while laid unconscious and then decide if you would still defend that person !!.

If they do actually stand by and defend this then i'm afraid they really are a horrible vile club !!

It doesn't surprise me that in spite of Wane condemning it, in spite of the chairman condemning it, in spite of the fans condemning it, and in spite of a full and unreserved apology from Flower himself, some opposition fans are insisting the opposite. You couldn't be any more blinded by hatred for Wigan if you tried.

Re: Ben Flower : Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:46 pm  

TheElectricGlidingWarrior wrote:

It doesn't surprise me that in spite of Wane condemning it, in spite of the chairman condemning it, in spite of the fans condemning it, and in spite of a full and unreserved apology from Flower himself, some opposition fans are insisting the opposite. You couldn't be any more blinded by hatred for Wigan if you tried.

Being cynical, they have to condemn it. When the chairman wields the axe in two directions I will accept they mean it.

Re: Ben Flower : Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:54 pm  

Dally wrote:

Being cynical, they have to condemn it. When the chairman wields the axe in two directions I will accept they mean it.

Only way that will happen is if any of their sponsors start complaining about any bad publicity linked to their companies?

Re: Ben Flower : Sun Oct 12, 2014 7:39 pm  

TheElectricGlidingWarrior wrote:

It doesn't surprise me that in spite of Wane condemning it, in spite of the chairman condemning it, in spite of the fans condemning it, and in spite of a full and unreserved apology from Flower himself, some opposition fans are insisting the opposite. You couldn't be any more blinded by hatred for Wigan if you tried.

Have you got a link to where they all condemned it? I've not seen it anywhere.

I have seen an apology. But nowhere have they said they condemn his actions have they?

Re: Ben Flower : Sun Oct 12, 2014 7:45 pm  

'standing by him' is the same as defending him !

Anyone defending him is, imo, as sick as the perpertrator himself!