Quote ="Captain Hook"If I was describing what I saw I wouldn’t describe it as a headbutt, I would go with “head push”. I want to make it clear I’m not defending Hardaker who clearly still has “issues” regarding anger management! As does Bateman.'"
To be honest I heard about it before I watched it a couple of days later and from the description I got, I was expecting it to be worse. You could see he was getting frustrated in the minutes before that, a red card was the correct decision but i've seen much, much worse. Even the Sinfield one from a few years back was worse than that from memory and that got 2 games, so there is some consistency in punishment there, what is his disciplinary record been like over the past few years? I know he's done some stupid things off the field and was banned for homophobic abuse 6 or 7 years ago, but that's probably too long ago to influence suspensions in 2021?
Tomkins (Joel) should have seen red too. Not sure what a grade D is these days in terms of weeks but guessing it'll be a fairly long suspension - 4 games maybe - although i'd take a couple of games off as it was Hardaker he hit and that has to be classed as a mitigating factor
