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But Nicki did not touch him did he?

One nice guy? Hardly, he showed with the actions and the statement he is not the Mr NICE Guy of the sport people like to paint him to be.

Not exactly the professional approach we have come to expect from Greg, which to be fair he has always conducted himself professionally. That statement really is unprofessional (at best), some of the comments about Nicki and questioning his mentality are beneath Greg.

Not really, he failed to apologise to Nicki for attacking him.

Hancock is really living up to his name during this 24 hours.. I quote him How does launching yourself at someone unable to fight back at that moment be seemed self-defence? That statement is so unprofessional. If he has a grievance, take it to the sports governing bodies.

Listen you little muppet, don't tell me to go watch a race in which a rider died. However, I have underlined a word for you, I think it is relevant for last night and most likely all of the crashes involving Nicki.

Well to my knowledge he hasn't yet and no rider has been seriously (disabled) injured because of Nicki. So yes, I am happy to say the evidence suggests it is an exaggerated thing to say.

I think he showed that a long time ago, but most of us actually hoped he would grow up and learn from his ban to get his head down and race.... seems he cant keep away from trouble.

You may be right, but the Harris one is the one that I can remember in the 20+ years Greg's been riding... tell a lie, I remember Rickard Hellsen holding him and Billy off for four laps at Station Road.... two races (he was beaten both times).

Nope, I think I was right the first time. But is it not what you typed?

I just typed something similar myself actually crossing your post, you have written much more succinctly.

Not anymore. I always respected Greg, but I never really got excited by him at the tapes, a fairly boring rider in that he rode, but I don't really recall him racing (other than the night Harris won the GP at Cardiff). But, despite not being a fan of his style on track I respected his professionalism. Until last night. What I find hard to accept is so many people are sycophants defending Greg because it was Nicki and not condemning his post crash actions (even if they understand why he did it). Greg's action was unacceptable, end of. It wasn't a fight though. Greg launched at Nicki when Nicki was still riding his bike. Not exactly easy for Nicki to put his hands up to defend himself at that point.

So that's ok then, lets forgive Hancock. So if at Cardiff Greg takes Nicki wide and Nicki needs to bail out it will be ok for him to get up, run across the track and throw his arm at Greg's neck?

But I have never seen a rider get up, run across a track and rugby tackle another rider's neck. Just because it is Nicki, Greg seems to have got away with it. What Greg did was disgusting. How ironic it would be if Greg is in hospital today for hurting himself in the rugby tackle rather than the crash!

And? Emil had incidents with other riders (not including Nicki), Gollob had few in the early days of the GP's. So it's not just Nicki.

Greg is making a meal of it on Twitter. He tweeted this with a pic of a hospital scanner. Nicki replied with a pretty valid point.... he wasn't crying hurt when he ran down the track.

Wrong thread pal... the thread is about the actions of the American fella in hitting out.

In your case, your one word reply said nothing. You accuse someone of talking nonsense without justifying it... which is utter nonsense

That's a really insightful post. The only nonsense is the person who writes nonsense without justification and the reasons for the points they feel are nonsense. Everybody, even those who like Nicki have all agreed his move was hard, and perhaps the right exclusion. It's the fact people are excusing Hancock's actions just because it was Nicki that I have a problem with.

Rubbish. You sit on a chair, get someone to move it forward a little and ask someone to run at and leap with their arm around your neck. You then come back on here and tell me Greg's move could have only hurt himself.

Exactly, people need to take away the 'who' and focus on the 'what', and there is no defence for Hancock on the 'what'. The way people on Twitter are calling him a hero etc is embarrassing.

That idiot Ward mouthing off on Twitter too. You would think someone with his reputation would be quiet and staying out of things like this. So what did NP do to Ward? Other Ward snippets on the subject.

What a scumbag wishing someone would break their neck.

I do, just watched it on the Facebook link. Nicki is a hard rider, sometimes crossing the line. That does not justify want Hancock did, again I ask if the roles were reversed would you still be saying the same thing? I doubt it.

Idiot. What a stupid thing to say to excuse inexcusable behaviour. A few Twitter comments. Never far from trouble, Ward then commented. Greg did not reply, but tweeted on his own timeline.