he'll miss half of next season........at least he'll be fresh for the world cup

Massive brain explosion from the Graham - the replay clearly showed his guilt; he'll not be making himself very popular with his NRL counterparts, what with this and the Vaseline-gate incident earlier in the season.

I liked the way the referees and the commentators dealt with it; if that was SL, Wiggie would have been calling the police from the commentary box.

Ok biting him was worse

But still both pretty pretty pathetic

for the international games to count against his ban...don't we have to select him in the squad??? why select him if he can't play???

But according to that 'Saddened' fellow who screams apoplectic rage at the slightest Wigan misdemeanour it was 'just a friendly nibble'

"let himself down". Very civilized. Can you imagine the loons on here if Tomkins had done that?

Where does it show graham 'biting' Slater???
It shows his head right against him and him snarling but I don't see any conclusive evidence in the video of him biting.

Should see a long ban coming for Mr Graham.

Naughty bin dipper.

This is Slater's ear. Tbh, it doesn't look like bite marks.

whats billy doing sticking his ear in jammers mouth anyway????

The kinky swine.

certainly doesn't and it would be nigh on impossible to get your teeth to that point/angle with enough pressure in any case as the cut (which what that is not a tear) is within the ear. Graham must have razor sharp teeth angled diagonally in his mouth to even have a remote chance of inflicting that
Sounds like complete bull$hit to me, seems most on here are prepared to pronounce him guilty before even studying the facts properly..same old, same old

To be fair,although Graham opens his mouth like a Lion,it isn't at all clear that he goes through with the bite...

Watching the footage, it doesn't show any biting, just that his mouth is near his ear and Slater walks away with a small cut.

Heres another scenario; Graham is telling Slater what he thinks of him, and another guy seems to give him a whack on his head forcing is top teeth onto slaters ear. Similar happened to me in a game once, with the tacklers teeth going into my head, that bled too.

I'm not saying he didn't bite him BTW, just that what we got to see wasn't conclusive (imo of course).

What facts have you presented? That [iin your opinion[/i those don't look like bite marks?

The [ifacts[/i are:

1) Slater suffers a left ear injury in the incident (see above);
2) The wound has been caused by something tooth sized;
3) Slater states / alleges Graham bit him;
4) Video footage clearly shows Graham with his face tucked in to the left side of Slater's head - just where his ear would be - chomping on something.

IMO it couldn't be any more cut-and-dried without Slater wearing an ear-cam. Long ban for mine. Shame as he was Canterbury's best forward for me and I always thought he was above that kind of crap.

Spot on fella, can't believe anyone thinks anything else. Never heard so much bollox, he's clearly bitten him.

Watching the video, the angle of Graham's head compared to Slater is never going to cause a cut like that, their cheeks are almost together, Graham would have to almost be at a right angle to Slater to cut him there.

He clearly does have a nibble, but that clip they came up with is completely out of context. How did they end up in that position for one? Who was the initial aggressor? What does Slater do to cause Graham to get so wound up that if does that? He's been wound up for 5 years by low life players in Super League and never once done anything outside of the rules of the game in retaliation. Why would he suddenly decide to bite Billy Slater?

Looking at the wound itself, it's a funny one. It looks semi circular on some of the shots I've seen and like a puncture on others. My question is, if it was a puncture caused by a bite, how come the rest of the teeth managed to avoid damaging the outer part of the ear? If the fang caused a puncture wound, the next tooth on either side would also cause damage, but the injury he supposedly suffered is very small and localised with no sign of injury around it.

[url=http://pics.lockerz.com/s/249005770Looks more like a pinch wound than a bite, where did the other teeth go?[/url

What will go against Graham is that he came from a very long way away to have a crack at Slater. There was a lot of handbags in the incident, but out of everybody Graham looks the worse, even before the bite incident he has the biggest case to answer imo.

Slater wrestles with somebody, Keating I think, for about 5 seconds, and it looks like its(the Slater-Keating area of the handbags) about to mellow down, and James comes out of nowhere and gives Slater the biggest bloody bump you've ever seen, knocks him about 10 metres back onto his (onto some metal flooring) and I'm not a lip reader but I'm sure Graham shouts "FUCK OFF!" while making his dramatic entrance. He, Graham, was probably about the 26th man into the scuffle which is more daming

Slater gets to his feet to wrestle Graham, that's when the bite takes place.

Without that maybe Graham could have some sort of defence, however flimsy, but with the way he rushed over so late and zoned in on Slater, hitting him with the ferocity he did, I don't reckon it reflects well on him

His entrance, if you've been following Origin the last few years, was reminiscent of Thaidays notorious cowardly "3rd man in" barge on Jennings in 2010

What Graham was probably objecting to originally, which replays show didn't actually happen on reflection, was Slater looking to attack PErret on scoring a try with his knees. It looked, live, like Slater went in with the knees to hurt the try scorer. Perret didn't like it and eye-balled Slater something serious and Inu, coming in to celebrate, pushed Slater(probably thinking the same as everyone else, that Slater the grub went in with his knees) which sparked the entire incident. That'd be why Graham was ed if I'm to guess, but it doesn't look good for him.

I think he did go for the bite to be honest with you. But we'll see, he'll probably confirm soon enough whether it was a brain explosion or whether he's been caught in rugby leagues greatest conspiracy false-flag operation

I've never read so much in my life, even for this board it's a new high.

Clearly bit him and punched him on the floor.

Spot on Sheldon. He ran in late, clearly bit him and then gave a few punches to the head. www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... 26trk.html Its a shame because he played really well, now his name is mud in the NRL. He got 0/10 player rating in the media after the game It is being talked about nearly as much as the games result in Oz

Spot on Sheldon. He ran in late, clearly bit him and then gave a few punches to the head. www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... 26trk.html Its a shame because he played really well, now his name is mud in the NRL. He got 0/10 player rating in the media after the game It is being talked about nearly as much as the games result in Oz

Perfect