Probably not as i doubt RedHall will ban him but none of the commentators had any sympathy with him.

First contact was upwards right on to the chin, jumped into the tackle as well. Should have been red and then 2 week ban, now it should be three week ban.

Still Grix is lucky because if Bowen had not chinned him i think McIlorum would have got him with his elbow.

Don't Wigan play NZ Warriors first?

If I recall McGuire got a one match ban in the last game of the season and got to serve it in the Boxing Day friendly.
Likewise Westwood for his shot on Green in the GF had to 'miss' the Italy friendly for England.

One match ban and still available for the WCC me thinks.

Should have been yellow minimum

Ferguson got banned during World Cup and served it in a pre season friendly for Bradford.

I know the disciplinary is there for a reason but after match bans do not reflect in the game the act was committed.


PS. I'm not arguing over the incident as it doesn't matter to my team now.

What did he do? He's picking up the culture quickly it seems.

Stiff armed Grix.

Grix had kicked the ball ahead and was took out with a nice arm across the chops. Personally I'd have given Yellow from the first look.

Red from the second look.

Referees need to get told to grow a pair, it was clear as day and we have the technology to make sure. Yellow and red cards need to be issued much more often then these sorts of incidents will begin to decline

I've been saying the same for quite a while now. I'm not sure what he was trying to do but whatever it was it went wrong. We all however know the script. Early guilty plea, 1 match ban missing the friendly against NZ. And we accuse the RFL of inconsistancy

If Matt Bowen is banned from the WCC it will mean Wigan loses by 40 points instead of by 26.

We like being the underdogs. The only other time we played the WCC in Australia we were supposed to loose by a landslide and had no props.............................................

Justed looked at your side from the 1994 game, even with a lack of props your side was outstanding, your backs and was backrow was 10 times better than you have now.

We have refs faffing with a silly screen for tries and the main ref miked up yet an incident like that can't be quickly glanced over and the ref told "yeah send him off, first contact is head"

Really getting fed up of 'on report' now, in the end it didn't cost the Giants but there have been games in which it could have benefited a side losing. All it does is weaken said team a week later, how does that benefit Hudds if they lose?