Many a true word said in jest

Looking at the RFL guidelines, gouging carries a E-F grade penalty, so 4 game ban upwards potentially.

E 4-8
F 8+

Wonder if he'll get an allowance for good behavior and having a spotless previous record.

Was it gouging though? Or did he just catch him on the eyes?

Either way it was extremely dirty and I'm disgraced to see that from my team

He gouged as far as I could tell. Definitely looked like he left the fingers in the eye rather than pulling his hand away.

The best team won, can't have any complaints. Didn't see the Hock incident from the stand but fully support any ban he receives for eye gouging, no defending that. Will have to watch it again to see that and the other incidents mentioned. A lot of uncharacteristic mistakes by us, such as Hansen dropping the ball for one of wire's tries, and we were punished for them.

Only Hock will know if it was deliberate or not.

Yeah, yeah. Sure the same nonsense will be spouted at the disciplinary too.

He has never had a problem crossing the line before, or doing a line come to think of it

But did he deliberately play at his opponent's head? If not, should a player be disadvantaged if it wasn't a deliberate play at the head of an opponent?

Hock is simply a druggie thug who brings nothing but shame to our game.

I do understand that you're having to defend your player from the shocking actions that he has undertaken, and trying to deflect it by going on about how Morley should get what is coming to him for being a cheat......

......but bascially with that attitude you're making yourself look like a tvvat.

Wether he played at his head or not is irrelevant , you are not allowed to play at the ball to prevent a try , it should have been a penalty after the conversion , wouldn't have affected the result , but consistency is required

How do you know it was intentional?

If it was he deserves a legnthy ban but it all comes down to whether he did it deliberately.

Of course it was deliberate. You don't go out and "accidentally" eye gouge someone, do you......

You're right, he accidentally puled Harrisons head back using his eye socket then accidentally threw an upper cut.

Just like he accidentally took drugs and accidentally grabs refs.

I can see why you'd be unsure about it, he's usually so well behaved.

Have a look at on Sky tonight. It was deliberate.

What Hock did was wrong. But your players aren't angels either.

How do you know, it could have been an accident

Oh get stuffed. How do you know it was deliberate? YOU DON'T!

It was every bit as deliberate as the uppercut which followed it.

Only a one-eyed moron (that's you by the way) can't see it.

That's your opinion. I've expressed my opinion too.

Lets just agree to disagree on this because I'm quite frankly sick of replying to you

At risk of being labelled a one-eyed moron – I would say there is some doubt about whether the contact with the eyes was deliberate

Hock was pulling at Harrison’s face but I cannot state absolutely that he deliberately targeted Harrison’s eyes with a deliberate gouge – it was certainly less cut and dried that the upper cut he then threw

Don’t think I am defending Hock – he acted like a dirty thug but I cannot say 100% that is was a deliberate gouge

Thank God!

Someone else isn't so convinced.

What he did was dirty but I'm not sure whether the eye gouge was deliberate

No im not sure he did, but yes the burden of responsibility has to rest with Tomkins in that situation.