GAME ON : Hull FC v Wigan Warriors - 20:00:00

GENERAL CHAT ABOUT THE GAME, BUILD UP, THE ACTION AS IT HAPPENS AND AFTERMATH BELOW.

Lengthy ban coming for Watts you feel.

Liam Watts sent off for a 3rd time this season. I thought it was a fair decision .

C-F didn't help himself switching hands.

Have to admit at first glance I thought McIlorum was simply the victim of his own aggression and height disadvantage and Watts had been very hard done to. But having seen the replays he's definitely seen him coming and raised the elbow at the head.

We've all done it - seen a defender and raised the arm in protection, but the rules are very clear regarding contact to the head.

Tasty game now, great stuff. Some of Hull's big men are blowing.

Can't really complain about Watts.
Don't think there was any malice in but if you raise your arm going in you run the risk.
Sadly with his record this season I reckon thats his season over.

Watts literally had a fraction of a second to react to mcillorum shooting out the line at him. Watts elbow doesn't leave his waist, hardly raises, it's more of a defensive block rather than an attack with the elbow. Hicks has lost control of this game

Fans chanting cheat at Mcillorum as he gets helped off not knowing what day it was and covered in claret. Connor at it again carrying on from last week.Saying all that only 2pts down at halftime,they are certainly a very tough team and can see it booting off again 2nd half

yep, def red. however it was simmering and had hicks binned MM and Kelly, as he should have done, it could well have settled the situation.
doesn't help when the likes of connor and Tomkins are winding everyone up either.

Hulls players have lost control.Not Hicks. If Radford calms them down and they concentrate on rugby rather than cock waving they can still win this

If people think Watts raised his arm with the intention to hit McIlorum in the head they're full of . He used it a bumper just like every forward in the league does. McIlorum went for a big hit and got the timing wrong.

He's unlucky as McIlorum has gone for a big hit and clobbered Watts elbow but let's be honest we'd be crying blue murder if that was reversed.

Why should McIlorum have been binned for reacting to being ragdolled off the ball? I don't think Kelly should have either.

fighting after it???????????

This hurts, but I've got to say the arm wasn't raised, on a man of equal size it would have been in the tacklers ribs. Micky Mac was bending into the tackle.
Got to agree with a previous comment, Conner is chirping in plays ears all the time trying to get a rise, did the same last week at Leeds.
Hicks needs to get the yellow card out and settle the game down.

The game has become a joke. The players are out of control on both sides, the ref has no control and clearly does't know what he is doing - if we are really lucky we might get some Rugby League in between.

As for it been a red.... well if it is, we might as well go all watch netball... there was no malice in it at all, it was a completely accidental contact caused initially by poor tackling technique. If we are going to start making accidental contact like that a red, then the sport is a joke.

That's a ridiculous red card. Hicks is not good enough to referee super league. He makes inexplicably bad decisions in every game I see. How, for example, can he find not even a penalty last week for Ida's cannonball attack, but dismiss Watts for carrying the ball into a tackle in the same way every forward does in every tackle.

I think Hicks is either completely out of his depth, or corrupt. He should not referee super league again.

By the rules of the game it had to be given as a red.Some real hissyfits on the Hull board . Just seen the forward pass try given and can see why fans very frustrated.

Nonsense. The rules of the game do not require the ball carrier to be sent off every time a tackler hits his arm with his head in a misjudged tackle attempt.

I speak as an experienced referee. That was not a red in a million years.

About time micky mack got clocked.

So your saying it's accidental?

Probably the most accurate post on the incident

Yes. It was. Clearly. That elbow wasn't deliberately raised. He didn't lead with it any more than any guy trying to tackle another man from the side has an elbow between him and the torso.

It was pure mischance. Mcilorum threw himself into a tackle, and got his head in the wrong place. Watts knew next to nothing about that collision. Purely accidental. A genuinely inexplicably bad decision, given it stemmed from a video review of the collision, rather than an instant real-time decision.

Hicks was terrible last week. He's terrible this week. He seems to panic in his decision-making. Not SL standard.

I wonder how many times this has to happen before Wane is relieved of his duties.

and yet ,Tony Smith was mocked after we played fax for his "Championship ref" comments. That was the second week in a row we had him, and second week he was atrocious. Which is commonplacr for him