According to some Giants fans, thats way over the top. Obviously some condone cowardly acts like that.

OK - I'll come along and attempt to snap your leg now. What kind of punishment do you want me to get? It would be definitely more than the equivalent of three weeks off work.

After now watching it a couple of times I am pretty sure that at no point did Mason attempt to snap his leg. It wasn't even a stamp. He stood on it. It was intentional and could have resulted in a nasty gash and as such he's been punished accordingly.

The problem with the bans for fighting (including the Hull incident) is that not too long ago Harrison Hansen and Darrell Griffin were involved in what was a much more serious fight and yet they both only received a formal caution.

Despite Griffin already having a formal caution for fighting he got the same punishment as Fielden.

As KR supporters we said it was Giants back to they're normal dirty selves, what did Nathan Brown say a few months ago, if Wigan wanna play rough then il send in my big men to protect the little men, i remember him saying it, Fielden should not have punched out but then it was an obvious stamp and a slimey grin from Mason which i think is a disgrace, to many inconsistent desicisons by Referees and Rfl think they have all lost the plot to be honest..
And well done Wigan for this season by far the best team in the league this year..

Stand/stamp/whatever. What does Mason weigh? 18 stone? It is very lucky that some serious damage was not done.

According to Wikipedia, 16.5st. Phil Clarke, the man who is incredibly bias towards Wigan, said it could have ripped his sock and I'm inclined to go along with that.

sorry you are wrong, fielden was mouthing off to griffin and horne when mason came from the side and hit fielden on the head, this is what then stared fielden off punching and it was then that griffin started punching to, check the replays!!

your not wrong defo appeal

Fielden won't be missed, you are only playing us

What was Fielden supposed to do?

Unbelievable decision? No, this is the RFL we are talking about.

They are worse than useless.

If you retaliate you get punished. No problem with that as far as I'm concerned. Mason ban is about right too. He's a coward an his action was pre-meditated. Pathetic.

The ban for Fielding is rather shocking, particularly in view of the point raised by the above post. Hudds coach Brown incited violence when he made the remarks.

Mason should have got 5. But I don't see sense from RFL these days.

I echo these sentiments.

Find it a farcical decision and hope Wigan appeal. He was assaulted twice - like BK says what on earth is he supposed to do?

Hull fans would disagree with that !

How was Fielden retaliating ?

Mason, yes what he did was naughty by standing on him but then (even though Piggy is appealing to the ref about the stamp) Fielden starts throwing his weight around (to the wrong guy) and Mason gets involved .

He's not an innocent party, he shouldn't have thrown his dummy out.

fielden does nothing until mason runs in from theside and hit's him. he had only been mouthing off to the hudds players.

Concerning that we may be short on Sunday, Hansen to step up to Prop? Farrell to start?

Scrapping shouldnt be a ban in our game, its been part of it for years, deliberate foul play yes, but not a good old scrap.

Don't reply here as will not get published. I do not use opinion or bad language, just facts and leave people to judge, 2 messages deleted what are they scared of, they were facts in the public domain

I would hope somebody will contact me to explain.

Just check my contents over last 4 years or so.

Things allowed are swearing, really bad language, racists views etc. but being reminde of true facts gets deleted.

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you know where ^^^

watch again, he puts his hand in, then Mason runs over and pushes him then Fielden throws the first punch.

agree the sin bin should be enough.

Do you know what, I've just watched the highlights for the first time on the Superleague Website. Fielden plays the ball and is quite rightly annoyed at what Mason has done and is complaining heavily to the ref (he wasn't throwing his weight around here). THEN.....Mason runs a full 10 metres and lands him one in the face for good measure!!!

What the FOOK is Fielden supposed to do here, just take the hits???????????


Nathan Brown should be up in the dock for this!!!! He essentially gave his player free reign to act like thugs!

Eh??

Agreed, a 10 minute cool off and nothing should be mentioned again. BIFF is what makes our game great.

I agree, Mason maybe at most should have got one match, Fielden a caution aswell as Griffin.

Let's not forget this is Rugby League not tiddly winks and nobody was hurt, I enjoy a bit of biff if both parties are willing and no-one is hurt, most of the time it's wind milling and a bit of handbags.