Wigan chairman Ian Lenegan said Hock had "let down" Warriors and had "no intention" of playing for them again.
Hock went down holding his eye.
The local estate has been closed, its animals hocked, its mill shut down.
After Saturday's match the Leeds wing Ryan Hall, who opened the scoring with a try in the left corner, claimed Hock "let us down" by being excluded from the squad.
There is also, similarly, the striking approximation of a human smile on the face of every pig, even a slaughtered one hung upside down by the hocks: the small eyes close tight in mirth and the mouth hangs open in a pleasant expression made worse by the color of the face, which, in its pallor, approximates the colour of Nordic human flesh".
You can hope that every time it's said, more people listen: western economies are growing more unequal on a never-ending trajectory that tears apart the social fabric, puts democracy in hock to plutocrats, holds down the poor, and cements the children of the wealthy in unearned privilege.
By hocking the public trust to double down on enticements for Las Vegas Sands, in spite of unresolved doubts over the project's financing, the government may have dealt away too much.
Salford went down to 12 with Gareth Hock sent to the sin-bin as tempers flared, and Saints capitalised when Roby again slipped the ball to Greenwood to steam over, and Turner punished weak defence to pick up his brace.
"They got their sons in, and then their sons-in-law in, and it started coming down the tree," Hock, a stocky forty-one-year-old with a shaved head and a goatee, told me recently.
Sometimes it's best to just drunkenly praise the sun, fuck up your mouth, and hock a roll of cheese down a hillside without thinking about it too much.
