Re: Ben Flower : Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:15 pm  

Eastbourne Warrior wrote:

Again I want to stress I'm not defending Flower as it was one of the wrist I've seen on a rugby pitch.

But how is running over to someone and elbowing them in the head off the ball not a sending off offence?

Yet you seem to have missed flower whacking him on back of the head as he was chasing through which started it all. Flowers a grub and if your defending him you are too!

Re: Ben Flower : Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:17 pm  

Just been reading about a sillier case in a game of Union. The guy got charged with GBH, was found guilty and did time. So there is a precedent.

This was not a brawl. This was a thug hitting an unconscious, defenceless prone guy.

Re: Ben Flower : Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:24 pm  

The first contact was pretty much what you'd see in a lot of games but the punch on the floor was just spineless thuggery. Can't believe Clarke tried to defend it. What a prize prick he really is.

Re: Ben Flower : Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:27 pm  

debaser wrote:

Just been reading about a sillier case in a game of Union. The guy got charged with GBH, was found guilty and did time. So there is a precedent.

This was not a brawl. This was a thug hitting an unconscious, defenceless prone guy.

I'm no legal expert, but I would be amazed if that qualified as Grievous Bodily Harm. If it was on the street, it would be common assault.

Re: Ben Flower : Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:43 pm  

Bal wrote:

I'm no legal expert, but I would be amazed if that qualified as Grievous Bodily Harm. If it was on the street, it would be common assault.

If it was on the street and caught on CCCTV say it would probably be ABH, too serious imo for common assault.

Re: Ben Flower : Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:44 pm  

Bal wrote:

I'm no legal expert, but I would be amazed if that qualified as Grievous Bodily Harm. If it was on the street, it would be common assault.

It may have been assault. But he got charged with something and found guilty.

Re: Ben Flower : Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:49 pm  

RealSteel89 wrote:

Yet you seem to have missed flower whacking him on back of the head as he was chasing through which started it all. Flowers a grub and if your defending him you are too!

I wrote 2 paragraphs. In the first I said I want to stress I'm not defending flower and it's one of the worst things I've seen on a rugby pitch yet you still say I'm defending him and call me a grub.

Re: Ben Flower : Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:50 pm  

Bateman with another swing at a man on his knees and it looked liked an attempted headbutt

Re: Ben Flower : Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:53 pm  

STEVO " theyve been ever so brave " WTF

No Stevo, theyve been a set of dirty lovers

Re: Ben Flower : Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:57 pm  

In one sense at least, justice done