No doubt Hanbury did or said something, but Ferris should know by now that throwing a punch will like as not get you a ban, If that's the best he can do after his rest we can live without him for a few more weeks.

Ferres tackled Hanbury without the ball, then Hanbury pushed Ferres, Ferres then reacted by a single punch to Hanbury's face.

Agree Hanbury shouldn't have pushed him but Ferres' reaction was inexcusable.

Yeah it was stupid of him

Just plain stupid. Between injuries and bans he's becoming a liability. Prone to giving away penalties and dumb offloads also.

Hes had a rocky season but is a matchwinner

It appeared that Hanbury was milking it a bit.

He started with Ferres. This would not have happened a few seasons ago as he would have expected a clout for starting with a forward.

The crowd had their part to play. We got on Hanburys back and he knocked on a couple of times. This was probably down to the so called concussion. But we did our bit.

Ferres shouldn't have reacted like that. Those days are gone. I am not condoning it what so ever but I am glad to see our players sticking up for themselves.

Should only get two games for that. It was one punch, face to face in retaliation. He didn't miss mind.

Two poor teams -but our game management was second to none???


We were a man down and you didn't use the overlap- because you never got the chance!!!
We cut down your options on just about every play, we didn't give you any time or space. That's not a poor team- that's a good one.

Sticking up for himself? He only got shoved in the back. To turn around and punch a player is disgraceful.

Disgraceful!!!

Not the first, won't be the last.

He got sent off, he'll cop a ban. But let's not get over excited sunshine.

Highlights here. skysports.tv/4W81FP Don't quite see the ferres punch but see the handbury push. He won't do that again. Great performance by the 16 left.

Highlights here. skysports.tv/4W81FP Don't quite see the ferres punch but see the handbury push. He won't do that again. Great performance by the 16 left.

Just watched the video on sky. It was disgraceful.

At least six matches given his past form. Totally out of order and absolutely unnecessary.

Problem with this is, If it had been Robinson who had pushed and a big forward had stuck one on him, this board would be screaming for a big ban.

Ferris knows what happens when you throw a punch, yet on his first game back he doesn't have the sense to hold back. This is the guy some people want to be Captain.

ferres was stupid, let's not pretend otherwise he will cop a hefty ban for that,but hanbury was by no means an innocent bystander, and he got the giants fans backs up by appearing to fall rather theatricllly only to jump straight up once the red card was issued. but i am in no way condoning what brett did, it was stupod, unnceccesary and could have cost us.

as for the game, dire stuff, but what do you expect on a carpet of rubber balls? take nothing away from fartown though, some of our play and game management was superb again in the 2nd half,
widnes i thought offered very little except kev brown kicks, yes they scored a couple of tries out wide by outnumbering us but i thought we coped fairly easily with what they offered.

totally deserved to win that game and jerry once again was a monster in defence!

Some folk need to give their heads a shake.

It wasn't unprovoked, it wasn't whilst he was on the ground. It was simply one rugby league player punching another.

He shouldn't have done it, but these things happen in the heat of the moment. Anybody who has played the game will agree.

2 game ban, 3 tops.

Baring in mind spitting is only 4.

And with regards to Brett Ferres previous, he's had one red card for a dangerous tackle. Hardly one for throwing haymakers every week.

And no I wouldn't be calling for the head of somebody if they did it to Robinson. I wouldn't be happy but wild still have the same view.

Don't start fights and you won't get a clout!

You are either extremely biased or you need to change your glasses. Watch the Video and if you don't see Ferris give Hanbury a big shove in the back off the ball. then you have a problem, That was the start of it, if you choose to ignore that ,fine Hanbury started it.

The pictures I'm looking at show Ferres shoving Hanbury off the ball. Hanbury pushed him back and Ferres decked him.

So it was provoked by Ferres and Hanbury didn't start it but he did get a clout.

When Ferres first made contact the ball was still in play as far as they knew. Hence Simpson collecting and running with the ball.

I am not biased I am more than happy to slag our players when I feel it is necessary, nor do I need new glasses.

Bye the bye. He's done it. Not crime of the century.

Please share them. The footage I've seen doesn't show what happened after Simpson picked up the ball. But your version of events is not how I remember them- had quite a good view from our end of the incident.

The video on this thread is pretty decent.

Both players were chasing the ball- hanbury kicked it, ferres was trying to prevent a try being scored- pushed him as hanbury was going to kick the ball hardly "starting it".
Punching hanbury was an unnecessary thing to do- but hanbury might think twice before trying it on again!
I've no problem with the red card for ferres or the ban he will receive. But hanbury wasn't without fault.

But doesn't show the whole incident.

It does show Ferres initiating the incident though. He did shove Hanbury over.

Chasing the ball....
Something similar happened to brough later on as he was chasing his kick- brough didn't try to start a fight by pushing the player though.

Only person in the wrong is Ferres in my view. A shove doesn't deserve a punch to the face. Shoving happens all the time.
It is disgraceful and if someone had whacked one of our players because of a shove I'd be shouting 'off' and be hoping for a big ban.

That punch could have lost us a top 4 spot and shattered the confidence running through our team. Crazy stunt... Not something one of our leaders should be doing.
It's not big and hard and certainly on this occasion doesn't come under the 'sticking up for ourselves act'.

Great win though under the circumstances.

Quote ="jools"Please share them. The footage I've seen doesn't show what happened after Simpson picked up the ball. But your version of events is not how I remember them- had quite a good view from our end of the incident.'" skysports.tv/4W81FP This shows the incident. The only thing it doesn't show is the Ferres punch but no one is disputing that.

Quote ="jools"Please share them. The footage I've seen doesn't show what happened after Simpson picked up the ball. But your version of events is not how I remember them- had quite a good view from our end of the incident.'" skysports.tv/4W81FP This shows the incident. The only thing it doesn't show is the Ferres punch but no one is disputing that.