That was my take

Thought there was a lot of messing about in the tackle, sort of thing Shaun Wane is always complaining about but w!g@n do more of!

Was a diagracefull attack by Ben Flower, to step onto one of the biggest stages in British RL and do that! Should get a long ban and be done for bringing the game into disrepute.

Yes Wigin are trying to be the new Leeds, but adding high shots and nasty niggles on the floor to boot, the semi was the same ,

Saints were dire 'with the ball', but least they won. Ben Flower will never had as much press till tonight. Average player, who decided to behave like a thug. Pies should sack him, to think Sam Hopkins can't get a game, but he does.....

Hardly surprising, take Riddy and Ryan out of Leyth and our ' Ball play ' would suffer

Exactly Frank it totally ruined it. The atmosphere before that happened was something I have never experienced. It was fantastic. From James to the kick off was the best I have ever seen and do you know what, Wigan were by far the best team for me. Shaun Wayne and Ben Flower should spend the next week in the stocks.

Second punch was unneeded, out cold before he hit the ground.

Flower threw 3 punches, 1 st knocked Hohia to the ground as Flower chased the kick ,Hohia responded with a push to Flowers chest/face

Both punches following that were disgusting ,

Well you are easily pleased. Like you I went as a neutral but there wasn't one move from either side that got me out of my seat.

Flower lost Wigan the game in the second minute and had he not been so daft I think we would have seen a much better game

Think Shaun Wane 'ordered it' ?

It was one of the worst Grand Finals since they started but will be the most talked about for all the wrong reasons.

Your just 'miffed' because you spent £40 supporting the pies and they lost

Frank doesn't spend £40 in a Month , Henry I still need Bernards number .

Correct, the anti RL media (BBC, papers) will take great pleasure in showing the assault on an unconscious player, up to now every news report has shown the thump and Saints lifting the cup, no tries shown. Well done to the pies for dragging our game into the mire

pm you in a moment

Not quite what occured, but most likely to take any opportunity to upset Saints 1 remaining HB, which is what Flowers did with the original punch when running past Hohia

That's what happens when you get spoiled all season by watching Leigh "The Entertainers" Centurions.

Imagine how good we could be having that level of bulk/conditioning and the type of RL we have played this season
I thought it was lacking skill with the little flair coming from Wigan and think the refs this year need to take a long hard look at how they officiate games and realise the industry we are in
Flower will get 16 games

Well he won't despite what he did. Daft beggar lost his head in a moment of madness and he will have suffered already as a consequence of his actions.

He will get 4 games imo and should be made to pay me back my ticket money for ruining what could have been a good game.

I personally don't think it will harm our game one bit and as the say "you can't really get bad press". I think he will get an even ten game ban. I also think he realised what he was doing just before he landed the second punch. Had he punch him twice while on the floor you could wave him bye -bye forever.
Do you think it was worse than Eric Cantona's flying kick? No, not by a country mile. A very, very stupid thing to do which no doubt will tighten the rules on the biff for next year. Me thinks we will see a good few red cards at the start of next season. even for a push. What I really would hate to happen is the RFL go overboard and give the Ref's a mandate to send players off just for raising their hands, like in fuzzball.

I'm sure your local RU coach will happily use it to entice new juniors rather than them playing the ' thugs ' game

TV boy what planet do you live on?

The independent disciplinary board will meet tomorrow and comprises Judge Chris Batty, Danny Sculthorpe and Neil Turley.

Nonsense - it made it a very interesting equation - which was worse, losing your best prop or your only real playmaker? That question was only decided in the last 5 minutes. It probably wouldn't have been as close with 13 v 13.

Besides, teams can't all play like Leigh you know!