Frank,
Yes abhorent actions, I dont think Poore is a dirty player at all, i am hoping it was a brain snap, albiet a massive one.
IMO Barrett was trying to fire the boys up, can you honestly say he was laughing at price, and applauding the fact he was out cold, thats a stretch even for a qld'er. It can be seen hodges telling them "watch your back" & making other numerous threats, especially after Hodges media taunts of payback leading up to game 3, I'd laugh at him as well.
I think Hodges/Thaiday are a tad confused, they initially gave it to waterhouse for "blindsiding" price with a dog act (their words), that turned out to be wrong, then it was barrett for laughing at price, according to QLD, now its poore. i think they wanted to a rerason to put on a stink, any reason and the time line of comments would supprt this theory. Hodges has been shown to be a massive, big mouthed grub, he had ample opportunity to follow through with his pre-game and during the game threats, and he came up very, very short on both sets of threats. His actions tell us more about him as a person, I actually pity him, he has some serious issues to sort out.
This is Poores first indescretion, and yes a biggie, hodges have form for the last 5-7 years. A grub deluxe IMO.