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Carl Fearns suggests Bok No.8 Wiese ended teammate's career

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Newcastle forward Carl Fearns has suggested on social media that hard-hitting Springboks No.8 Jasper Wiese ended a teammate’s career in 2021.

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Fearns raised eyebrows of the festive season with a heavily loaded tweet aimed at Wiese, after the Springbok was banned for two games for accruing three yellow cards across the season.

Wiese received his third yellow card of the 2021/2022 Premiership season during his team’s 28-26 away win at Ashton Gate on Boxing Day against Bristol Bears. He misses today’s clash with Newcastle and Wasps next weekend.

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      Fearns took to social media to share his feelings about Springbok’s ban.

      “That’s a shame, I fancied getting cleaned out with an elbow from the side,” Fearns tweeted.

      That wasn’t the end of it however, with the uncompromising Falcons back row fielding plenty of criticism on Twitter for taking a pop at the South African, some accusing him of lacking respect. “Respect? I’m about player welfare and keeping kids wanting to play our sport that’s opened doors for me that never would have been open,” Fearns wrote.

      One response was particularly intriguing, with Fearns implying that Wiese had ended the career of Scottish international Jon Welsh.

      Welsh last played for Newcastle against Leicester Tigers in March 2021. It would be his last game of professional rugby, after he was injured in the bad-tempered affair at Welford Road. Indeed, prior to the game, Welsh and England and Leicester Tigers prop Ellis Genge faced off on the sidelines and had to be separated before coming to blows.

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      During the game, Welsh dislocated his shoulder after a questionable ruck entry by Wiese, an act that went unpunished at the time, leaving Newcastle Director of Rugby Dean Richards irate. The South African came in from the side at a ruck – according to Newcastle – to make the collision which resulted in Welsh requiring an operation.

      Welsh Newcastle Leicester
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      The 35-year-old prop was released by Newcastle at the end of the season. Fearns suggests that an incident with Wiese that day effectively ended the Scot’s career.

      “Do you think it’s classy that John welsh never played again,” wrote Ferns.

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      It can’t be denied that Wiese, who has now earned a total of eight caps in a break-out year for South Africa, is starting to earn a reputation for questionable incidents. In the meantime, fans will have to wait for an eventual showdown between the pair.

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      Tom 40 minutes ago
      English rugby pundits and fans really need to get a grip

      However I think the “if their opponents had scored more points then England would have lost” retrospective is pointless at best and silly at worst.

      I completely understand your view on this but England were the worst team in both games and if we're letting the result detract from the evaluation of the performance then we're doing ourselves a disservice. England fans should not get excited because we scraped two fortunate wins, it was a swing in variance and long term that variance will come crashing down on England because they did not play well. Ifs and buts aside I don't think anyone thinks England are better than either France or Scotland. The performance is what matters, results follow performances in the long run.


      You could for sure argue that the games they lost they could have won if the bounce of a ball went differently. In none of those narrow loses did England feel considerably the better team and there weren't moments you'd chalk up to massive amounts of fortune. In the two narrow loses they very much felt like the worst team and there were many moments where the rub of the green went England's way. Ultimately, they've had an uptick in variance which will average itself out to more losses because they're not good. These two results don't mean anything has been fixed. As I say, performances are what I'm looking for, not results, the results come if the performances are good and right now the performance in every game has more or less been dire.

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      RedWarriors 1 hour ago
      France change two for Ireland but stick with 7-1 bench tactic

      I saw Ben Kayser saying the French players would be livid and motivated due to the Ringrose ban etc. Galthie and Ntamack know the exact reason why the bans differ and one must assume the French squad does also. Galthie is playing silly buggers.


      As the red card for Ringrose fell right before a fallow week, he WAS released by Leinster who provided accompanying substantiation. Precedent shows club matches are included in bans in such cases. For Galthie/France alone precedents are Atonio (2023), Haouas (2023), and Danty (2024). Club matches counted for bans.


      Ntamack was different because France were due to play a match the following week (versus England). Therefore Galthie COULD NOT release Ntamack. In the written decision, Galthie tried to argue that Ntamack would be released after England but had to admit that a lot depended on outcome of England match which was unknowable. On top of that Ntamack was the starting outhalf for France.

      The precedents for the Ntamack situation are O’Mahony (2021) where club games did not count, and Willemse (2024) where Willemse had a 10 match ban reduced to 4 and club matches DID count for the suspension.


      So Galthie has had three cases like Ringrose (Atonio, Haouas, Danty) with same outcome as Ringrose. He had one previous case like Ntamack where he succeeded, but he was aware of and even mentioned the O’Mahony case where all the ban was for International matches.


      In a nutshell. Why were those players allowed club matches to count? Because they WERE released for the club games.

      Why did club matches not count for O’Mahony and Ntamack? Because they WERE NOT released for the club games which meant they could not reach the evidential threshold required.


      Why is he demanding a World Rugby inquiry when he knows the reasons for such decisions, has known for years, has benefitted for years? France know this and Ireland knows this.

      Dupont and the French team are honorable. This wont sit well with them. I would argue this is a bigger motivator for Ireland than for France.


      Conclusion: Galthie is under serious pressure to win this match

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