Hohaia has been charged with the Grade B offence of striking Flower with the forearm in the second minute.

Hohaia has until 11.00am on Tuesday to submit an Early Guilty Plea.



This surly will come with a thank you from all the ABW fans ---[ABW =Any body but Wigan

The headline will be "THE ELBOW THAT CHANGED THE GAME"

Lets all be honest -----Without the Hohaia elbow Wigan would easily of won the game

The saint elbows the face and the sinners off in disgrace.

The Hohaia elbow could easily see Ben Flower sacked from Wigan and banned from Rugby League

This will bring on a new saying "The elbow is mightier than the fist"

The chain of events are ----PUSH---- FOREARM----- FIST------ FIST ------REDCARD----ADVANTAGE SAINTS

You just could not make it up

The incidents can't really be compared. Westwoods was worse than flower's first but not the second. The rfl really copped out on westwood last year, purely because of england.

I suppose practice makes perfect. He will get a perfect 10 ban.

Jimofwigan, what a complete load of garbage you have just posted, to try and show that the incident is the fault of every body but Flower is showing your lack of comprehension of how bad the second punch was. Hopefully you are in a minority with how the majority of Wigan fans viewed the whole incident.



It was on the BBC website this afternoon that the Police will interview all bodies involved before deciding if the Crown Prosecution should be involved, will you say that it is a stitch up.

What a load of rubbish. The annoying thing is opposition fans will take people like this as a reflection of the rest of us

A poor effort. F-. See me.

He might have a wait to see you - it's 2 years since your last posts on this board. You'll be here all off season though presumably...

My appearances are like sightings of the Virgin Mary - rare but venerated. You'll be erecting plinths in Wigan town centre to celebrate my coming and telling your grandkids in hushed tones "I was there when he appeared".



What was that? Oh, my apologies... A "virgin" is a woman that hasn't already had sex by the time she's an adult. I forgot that you don't get them in Wigan...

Do you always come so quickly after the main event, and then go limp by the time the season starts again?

the whole incident, backlash and media coverage has really annoyed me, including the statements about the police getting involved.



why aren't the police involved when sports persons from any sport, clubs or even sporting governing bodies cheat using recreational or performance drugs, financial cover ups etc, and why aren't those incidents so violently discussed?



i'm so livid with ben as we clearly had a good chance otherwise, just as saints did, but he did what he did and it cost us the game, which in turn meant he let himself, his club, teammates and friends, family and more importantly fans down. by far the greater of any punishment that is to follow.



people really need to get a grip and come back to the real world. the sport will deal with it and that will be the end of it.



the man will be handed a hefty ban and that should be the end of it. there's so much more going on in the world at the moment yet people are going on about this like he made a terrorist threat on live national tv and anything of actual relevance to the world fades into insignificance!

I just do not buy the" string him up because it was a showcase event line." Any legal challenge would have that laughed out of court. The length of any ban can only relate to the incident, the rules governing disciplinary matters and any precedent already set. The number of spectators does not make the incident worse unless there is a charge of bringing the game into disrepute. As other players have committed similar offences then we should already know the likely outcome.

I can't wait to see the reaction tonight if the RFL hand out anything other than a public hanging to Ben Flower.



The inane ramblings of our friends from over the hill will get to levels never before seen.



Bring it on.