That being the case why was I peeing alongside a touch judge and member ( no pun intended) of the Haven bench at the last home game I attended?

Half time a Haven player came off and was desperate to use a cubicle... They were occupied in the public ones so no idea what happened to him but he seemed faster in the second half.

Bostwick, you must be utterly stupid with the remarks that you make. Gaz Hock has settled down and is a real family man. He has taken more dirty punches from so called opposing sportsmen than anyone I have seen, and the dick ed normally punish him cos he is Gareth Hock. So you would rather watch a team without mr Hock in it even if it means being a unsuccessful boring team that cant raise a decent crowd, well I would rather watch his exciting brand of play in my team than anything that London have, English or Australian

Who has rattled your cage LS?

Hock has a history of referee manhandling (continued this season), violence / punching (continued this season), drug misuse, and I am sure other misdemeanours I fail to remember. Family man or not, he is an outright thug, BUT undoubtedly a great talent, and puts the fear of G into the opposition when he has the ball in his hands.

You then go on to make some veiled comments about boring brand of rugby and decent crowds, I assume pointed at Broncos. Boring they are not, as I am sure you will agree when we almost spanked you at LSV earlier in the season. Poor crowds, the old chestnut, hard to disagree, but you dont have to look back too far in the history books to when Leigh were bobbing along at the bottom of the barrel.

Oh deary me very bitter let me know when he carried on with the handling officials apart from the official dressed as a fan or throwing punches not in retaliation did you actually hold the lead at Leigh? We have never been subsidised by the rfl unlike London or been allowed a team of Aussies unlike London

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Goodness me, you really are behind the times. I know Leigh doesnt have a railway station but I assume you've moved out of the Industrial Revolution?

Lets address your points in turn;

Bitter, no idea how I gave that impression. Certainly not, on the crest wave following the best London Broncos team I have seen in years and seeing the club gradually building up from the bottom.

I must assume you didnt attend the home game v Broncos, as if you had, you would have been aware Leigh were cacking themselves having been behind for most of the game and only a devastating 10 minute spell got you the 2pts - against the run of play, but a win is a win.

RFL subsidies - always comes up when true grit northern folk talk about the Broncos, but the snag is not one of them can ever point to a shred of evidence to back it up. I think its called an Urban myth. David Hughes is the guy who subsidises London Broncos.

Overseas players quote, I stand to be corrected but its over 10 years since we were aligned with the rest of the game with overseas players. The number of London born players in our current squad, and others who have moved on into SL is a testamnt, Jamie Acton I believe hails from Hemel Hempstead. So, this is a none point.

And so Gareth Hock, the gentle giant, the family man, the loveable rogue ..... with his own seat at the disciplinary panel, some of the charges found guilty of below, but so many more charges and of course, the drug misuse is another matter:

2016 Leigh v Swinton, 3 match ban for punching, £300 fine

2016 Leigh v Swinton, charged with reckless physical contact with match official, incredibly found not guilty

2015 Salford v St Helens, 3 match ban for use of knees, £300 fine

2015 Salford v St Helens, 3 match ban for use of knees, £300 fine

2014 Salford v Hull, 7 match ban for knocking over ref Matt Thomason, £300 fine

2013 playing for Widnes on loan, 4 game ban for deliberate contact with ref George Stokes

2013 using abusive language towards a referee

2012 Wigan v St Helens, 2 match ban for fighting, £300 fine

2011 Wigan v St Helens, 2 match ban for fighting, £300 fine + £200 bond forfeit

2011 Wigan v Warrington, 5 match ban, 4 matches for eye gouging and 1 match for punching, £300 fine

2008 Wigan v Huddersfield, 5 match ban for grabbing arm of ref Ian Smith, £500 fine

2008 Wigan v Bradford, 1 match ban for punching, £300 fine

Try looking at the video of the Swinton game and I bet you can't spot the match official hes the one in the hoody by the way
If you had read the post I did say this year
Or since he joined Leigh
What has a railway station got to do with anything?
Thanks Hemel for Jamie.
I did attend the match but couldn't remember every aspect of the game for which I apologise. Anyhow looking forward to the game and may the best team win. If it is London so be it you did beat us very well last year. And have improved since then

Back to the important issue, the tj probably chose to use the gents next to the Refs changing room through choice, not as far too walk. There is another set of latrines that the players use at the back of the stand.
Or onto the real issue, so every misdemeanor made by Gareth hock he has green punished for, so what? Does he play for us? No? Would I ever want to see him play for us no?
Bloke plays his rugby rough and tough! He over steps the mark, gets sin binned gets sent off and gets disciplined so what? It's for the opposition that can only be good for us..

To be fair, the fact that he's only been banned once since coming to Leigh points to an improvement in his discipline. And he can't be criticised for the contact with an official if he was found not guilty!

Anyway, looking forward to the game v London. You look a completely different team to last season. Should be a good match!

Have to back you up on this one Iggy, the comment made by Plummy that reckless contact with a match official was "incredably found not guilty" not guilty is not guilty! obviously in the eyes of the disciplinary board there was no reckless contact and with 3 previous charges of a similiar offence I would not imagine they would not look on it lightly, so obviously they had no evidence that any chargable offence occured.

They couldn't enforce the offence Micky, regardless of what the official was wearing.The fact the official entered the field of play without the refs permission is a contradiction to RFL rulings.

Looking forward to the game..

don't know the incident you are talking to, but if iit's anything like physio water carriers etc etc it is there duty to stay out of the way of the players.
4th official has to do the same, so if a 4th official or reserve ref to give them the correct term gets in a players way then it's a difficult situation as you quite rightly say they are on the field of play without the ref specifically calling them on, if a player then runs into that person you can't charge them. If it was a deliberate push grab or lashing out then even under the rfl rules I suspect he would have been charged Were you there did you see the incident? What actually happened

A Lancashire derby..Spot the official. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yOKgWBOTmrQ

A Lancashire derby..Spot the official. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yOKgWBOTmrQ

2 points, having looked at it, that official should not have been on the pitch, as reserve ref he should not be entering the field of play in that situation. Secondly even if they were able to charge him are you seriously suggesting that was reckless?
I know you dont like the bloke mate but even I cant see what you are on about and have been in the middle or round the fringes of enough of those types of incidents. If as the ref you go in the middle of that sort of melee with the intention of pulling them apart its yr own fault, the ref and TJ should stand away from the incident and observe. As should all other match officials. Had he clocked the MC who stayed the right side of the touch line, although in my opinion was still far to close to the action then he would have had a charge to answer.
He should not have pushed the 4th but the 4th had no right to be on the pitch at that point.
Fact of the matter is you dont like him as a player!! he does not play for us so who cares? Leigh are happy with him, they are happy to damage limitate when he transgresses.

may I just remind you we are three points in front of you so even a loose at your place we would still be top anyway can't see anybody from our league getting close to the sl teams this year in the middle 8s Leeds ,huds look to be hitting form now just when they need it which is very worrying for the championship teams.

Agreed - unless something happens at Salford with MK (only 1958 there last night!) there'll be no-one going up, which should lead to reform of the system but won't, as it suits the SL clubs very nicely, thank you!

Don't worry about promotion, it won't happen. It would need a very weak SL team. And Salford are not a bottom 4 side on results, which makes the impossible task, a little harder.

June 26th*

Well spotted & duly edited.

Any ticket deals for sunday? bringing a gang along!

Crips or Bloods?

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Will they be wearing their bumbags ( they keep their MMA gloves and stuff in them apparently) ?