The same as what happens when someone commits a racially motivated attack you mean, jog on.

Hardly, keep out of trouble for 2 years and spend 240 hours doing community work rather than months/years banged up in Doncaster nick. I'd say he's got off amazingly lightly.

Lucky lad.
He's hot-headed, always has been. Let's hope he can sort himself out.

Very lucky boy !!! The fact he is a rugby league player would have helped him out and i think his time in jail before the trial was just a warning shot to him - He's a decent player and do you think if he did calm down his aggression he would lose an element of his rugby ability ?

IIRC he was ready to sign for Cas until the RSG boosted Rovers original contract offer. Maybe Rovers were prepared to let him go, but fan power won the day.

Just a thought mind

Definitely. Ben's a great player to watch because of the effort and aggression he brings to everything he does on the field. Take that away and he's half the player he is now.

Nothing wrong with his aggression on the pitch, makes him the player he is. It's off the pitch he needs to sort himself out, very lucky with his sentence imo.

His CONTROLLED aggression assists his game, its the other type (which he has calmed down immensely with of late) he needsto be shot of. A couple of seasons ago if someone gave him a sly one in the tackle (!!!) he would jump up and 2@ them, now if you notice he doesn't, its showing signs of him maturing as a player and a person.

This attack was from when he had his un-controlled aggression, he has been sentenced and now its up to him to show us he is the player we all know he can be. If he read the HDM article with Tony Smith, he knows he is being recognised for the right reasons.

Yeah i know what you mean but sometimes these type of events can shake up a person to change there ways both on and off the field - He's not the first and won't be the last RL player to get off lightly so i think its time just to move on now

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