www.englandrl.co.uk/article/3397 ... -statement

www.englandrl.co.uk/article/3397 ... -statement

Chucked out the England team for serious breach of discipline according to Twitter rumours.Shame if true as a quality player but obviously brain dead.

A bell-end, with first class honours.
How many second (third, fourth etc) chances does this pr1ck deserve?
RL's equivalent of Terry Duckworth.

May God have mercy on the souls of this whopper's club, next season

Yeah + to think quite a few of us Wire supporters wanted him sign for us,me included I must confess.

I'd rather have Pol Pot in a Wire jersey than that nob

I wonder what has happened?

Going well isn't it? Bloke shouldn't have been in the squad in the first place, people like him are manna from heaven to the opposition and he'd have cost us at some point.

The bloke has ability but the problem is, always has been and always will be the yawning 4" gap of thin air in between his ears. In a previous life he'd have been sacked as village idiot for being too dumb.

One more problem next year and he is finished.

There is no way Tony Smith would have had this idiot in the primrose and blue.

Good luck with him Salford.

As I said on the Chemics board last year, you're welcome to him.

Apparently, Hardacre, Graham and Cackybumbum were all carpeted too, but kept their postions in the squad.

Doubtless to say, the media will be all over this in the morning. A pity really, as we've had lots of positive exposure to non RL fans, recently

Brett Ferres apparently replacing him.

I am surprised Brian Noble has signed him for Salford tbh considering one of Noble's dressing room rules is "100 per cent, no duckheads"

you obviously haven't heard of stories from players under noble then. I believe he get serious close to play offs but he's not so strict mid season.

Good news for Ryan Bailey though - he must be a shoe in for the squad now.

The rumours are that there were three other players involved. If that's the case they should all be treated the same and the players who performed well for the England Knights on Saturday brought in to replace them.

All I can hope from this affair is that somehow McNamara can create a "siege mentality" in the squad and the performance and results benefit from this - afraid I can't see it though.

Reports now suggest that he failed to report at Loughborough when the squad got back together. I wish this time the truth was reported and exactly what Hock has done is released so everybody can see what an idiot he is. We had enough of the "Saint Gareth" stories from his two year ban period which if the press coming from his club was to be believed he apparently spent helping old ladies cross the road and bob-a-jobbing with the local boy scouts.

The guy's an idiot and the last thing he deserves is somebody like Koucash once again making excuses for unacceptable behaviour.


This time last week things were actually for once looking positive for the game of rugby league. Unfortunately firstly in the performance against Italy and now this sorry incident (which does seem to involve Hardaker, Graham and Hock's old partner in crime from his Wigan days, McIlorum) the players themselves have let the supporters and administrators down big time.

Unless they are from Wigan.

Careful or some might say thinking about the last few weeks it could be a case of pans calling kettles.

Bears and woods spring to mind.

I know he has history but remember Terry Newton!The guy could have problems none of us know about so let's not be saying the same thing when he took his own life like ' if only .'

There may be some parallels between Hock & Newton, so I suppose you could argue we should take a pragmatic view. However, it seems to me that whatever anger, injustice, fear or sadness Terry Newton felt about the world he took out on himself, sadly to the ultimate conclusion. Hock, on the other hand, appears to be at war with the world and whatever issues he has, and he clearly has many, he takes out on those around him. The Harrison incident alone is evidence of this.

He believes he has been treated unfairly- From BBC website www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/24641559

He believes he has been treated unfairly- From BBC website www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/24641559

One of the suspects played for the Knights on Saturday , pretty close to MoM by all accounts .

For what it's worth I think this is a bit harsh on Hock considering the others aren't being kicked out. The only difference between him and the others was he missed a 10 minute swimming session because he overslept.

What about those who can't swim ? Have they been sent home too ?

I'm sure there's some sort of in-squad discipline to be handed out to those who were also with Hock, but not turning up is a pretty big deal when you're a top athlete. Think of when Tony said about (I think) Matt King, that there are times players don't know they're injured and want to play and it's the job of medics in the warm down to properly asses them.

More than that though, he's playing for bloomin England, it's not a turn up when you feel like it/sorry I overslept/my dog ate my homework.

He's a total plank and I really feel sorry for Moz having to be in the same side as him next season.