Not seen a replay yet or read any reports (and only got to this point in the thread so could be repeated elsewhere, but as I saw it:

Something went on in the tackle, leading to either a shove or punch from Farrel. Poore retaliated and dropped Farrel with a cracker. Small melee ensued, we received penalty and Poore got the red.

If Farrel threw a punch then he deserved the same punishment as Poore, if he shoved then probably not. I personally don't agree with red cards for 1 on 1 fisticuffs, but that seems to be the way of the world this year so it was fair enough. How Farrell got away with only conceding a penalty I am not sure.

On the whole, as is fairly common when a man gets sent off (Like with Leeds last week) it probably galvanised us and helped to up our game as at that point if could have easily turned into Hull KR part 2 for Wigan and all credit to the lads they dug in and had a real go, I am sure many sides would have buckled so they deserve praise for that. 2 very tired teams in the last quarter though, and given the pace that Wigan had we did well to compete with them for the majority of the game other than a lull mid way through the game.

I don't think that Smith looked fit in the 2nd half and obviously loosing Mathers didn't help (or look good). Aiton played really well, Annakin had another good game.

Just watched it on sl fulltime. Farrell messes about in the tackle. Then fires his knee into poores head/face. I dont condone poores reaction. But for me that knee is much more dangerous than poores punch. Farrell seems to have some gareth hock in him.

I've seen the replay myself now and it looks harsh to single Poore out.

Farrell is one of the worst offenders of many in the Wigan team who do a bit of roughing up during the tackle - he clearly puts his fore-arm in Poore's face whilst he's on the floor, then tries to push him around whilst he's getting up. Poore objected, Farrel grabbed a handful of shirt and tried to throw a short punch - Poore then gets him with the now legendary 'Five Point Palm Exploding Head Technique.'

I would hope that given the extreme provocation he was subjected to, the panel will see sense and judge that the sending off was sufficient.

Coughed the ball up 3 times in the tackle got a penalty each time scored off 2 .he's over protected by officials and gets away with things others would be penalized.When he gathered the kick near the end he led with his feet and knees high but nothing.........but then it is sir Tomkins of RFL.

Not alone on that one is he

Poor comment, excuse the pun. As far as I can tell he was sent off for defending himself with a better punch than his attacker. As for the "again" comment, are you really including that boxing day friendly, I mean really.

He's no angel. However he was the beating heart for most of the good hat Wigan produced. He is world class and it showed. Pretty much beat us on his own.

Farrell went down far too easily.
Probably deserved to get dropped after ragging Poore's collar, sticking his knee in and going for him first

What did Poore deserve then after leading with his forearm/elbow into our defenders faces, twice?

People carry the ball in different ways, if Farrell wanted to avoid an Elbow or a Forearm he should of moved his head or even better tackled his legs!

Sorry but that's a ridiculous comment.

May be ridiculous but at the end of the day he always carries it in the same way and you're the first to complain about it even though your players were unaffected apart from a crack on the chin.

looking at it as a fan, you'd probably say Poore's reaction was justiyable.

As a team-mate, would their opinion be either

A: wow what a punch, he had it coming
B: FFS Justin

I'll let you decide....

Punching is a sending off offence, simple as that. Demz De Rules.
Whether Farrell's, ahem, "effort" is deemed to be a punch by the disciplinary matter, only time will tell.

Ref clearly didn't think it was a punch otherwsie (I would hope) he'd have sent him off.

Either way, the "lovely punch" as it has been deemed has done you guys no favours in the following weeks.

I also think Poore will be on the receiving end of much more niggling and provocation from smarter opponents, as he has proved on more than one occasion he can't control himself at times.

On the plus side, Wakefield played like that for 69 minutes against (for me) the best side by a mile for finding gaps..... Great effort!

Though I'm sure your forwards won't be as fresh as a daisy this morning..... Except Ali, of course, who only played about 15 minutes???????????

Am I missing something there?

Fair points, however as a fan I woulden't of wanted Poore chinning Farrell as he will be missing for a few games now. But whats done is done, no point making a fuss about it all we can do is hope he doesnt get a long match ban.

I think that's a pretty good and fair summary.

How did Cas get on?

One more thing on the Farrell punch, we got the penalty but I don't know what he gave it for! Anyone see Hicks' signal?

I wasn't at the game due to work and not really being bothered lol but we did exceptionally well to keep a team to 40 points this week!!!!!

Hopefully Poore's 1/2 match ban will be an eye-opener to him and will come back fresh.

I dunno of his disciplinary record in Aus so can't really say either way

I believe he never got sent off in AUS, not 100% though.

Lets face it, if we still had Hock, and he did the same thing that Poore did you lot would want him hanged outside of the stadium.

I don't think that there's any comparison. Hock is a coke headed perpetual offender, next to him Poore's in line for Nobel peace prize.

What goes around comes around.

One thing between Poore and Hock - ones an honest, hard working and a little short tempered former SOO forward, the other is a cheating, eye gouging coke sniffing thug.

Not denying that, and that's not even the point. The point is that if it was the other way round you lot would be baying for blood. And rightly so.

Was that an invisible forearm or a real one.