Quote ="P-J"It wasn't a cheap shot or thuggish though - I can't understand why people are going with that narrative.
He reacted to Lance's niggle. You see that every week in RL.
What made it unique was that he knocked him out with the first punch. He didn't realise this and did what every Rugby player does and followed up when he hit the ground. Watching it in slow motion doesn't put the incident in to context at all.
He'll get a ban for the punch. Anything more is Red Hall bowing to media and fan pressure, which they obviously will because they're incompetent.'"
Exactly! Everybody is outraged that Hohaia was out before the second punch. That is the issue here. If not we would have applauded Flower's act of retribution...
Sarcasm mode over. A scuffle followed by a shove followed by a punch is "perhaps" understandable. That second punch was cowardly, conscious or not, and anyone defending it will surely shake their head when they re-read this in the cold light of day...
