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Gibson-Park cited for yellow-carded clash with Marmion

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European rugby officials have arranged six disciplinary hearings following last weekend’s Champions and Challenge Cup action – four for red cards with the other two covering citing complaints, including an investigation into the hotly debated yellow card given to Leinster scrum-half Jamison Gibson-Park in Galway.  

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Numerous commentators felt that the Ireland half-back should have been red-carded for the incident that happened when he tackled Kieran Marmion during last Friday’s win for Leinster away to Connacht in the Champions Cup round-of-16. 

Gibson-Park was instead only yellow carded for the 56th-minute collision in the first-leg match that Leinster won 26-21, but his availability for this Friday’s return match at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin is now in jeopardy following a complaint by match citing commissioner Maurizio Vancini.

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Stade Francais’ Tolu Latu, Leicester’s Guy Porter and Toulouse’s Juan Cruz Mallia all have red card cases to answer in the Champions Cup while the Challenge Cup hearings will cover the red card shown to Brive’s Alex Muller and a citing for Edinburgh’s WP Nel. Here is the full list of hearings.  

HEINEKEN CHAMPIONS CUP
Red card – Tolu Latu (Stade Français Paris)
The Stade Francais Paris replacement hooker, Tolu Latu (No16), was issued with a red card during his club’s Heineken Champions Cup round of 16 first leg match against Racing 92 at Stade Jean Bouin on Saturday.

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Latu was sent off by the referee, Luke Pearce (England), in the 67th minute of the match for making contact with the Racing 92 second row, Baptiste Chouzenoux (No4), in the air in a dangerous manner in contravention of law 9.17. Jennifer Donovan (Ireland, chair), Mitchell Read (England) and Tony Wheat (Ireland) were appointed as the independent Disciplinary Committee for the hearing which took place by video conference earlier today [Tuesday].

The committee upheld the red decision, finding that Latu had committed an intentional act of foul play that warranted a red card. It then determined that the offending was at the top end of World Rugby’s sanctions and twelve weeks was selected as the appropriate entry point. The committee decided to reduce the sanction by two weeks given the player’s guilty plea and apology, and it also decided to add one week to the sanction due to the player’s poor disciplinary record before imposing an eleven-week suspension.

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Red card – Guy Porter (Leicester Tigers)
The Leicester Tigers centre, Guy Porter (No13), was issued with a red card during his club’s Heineken Champions Cup round of 16 first leg match against ASM Clermont Auvergne at the Stade Marcel-Michelin on Sunday.

Porter was sent off by the referee, Nika Amashukeli (Georgia), in the 60th minute of the match for making contact with the head of Clermont No8 Fritz Lee in a reckless manner in contravention of law 9.11. The hearing will take place by video conference tomorrow [Wednesday] and the appointments for an independent disciplinary committee remain to be confirmed.

Red card – Juan Cruz Mallia (Stade Toulousain)
The Stade Toulousain wing, Juan Cruz Mallia (No14), was issued with a red card during his club’s Heineken Champions Cup round of 16 first leg match against Ulster at Le Stadium on Saturday. Mallia was sent off by the referee, Wayne Barnes (England), in the eleventh minute of the match for making contact with the Ulster wing, Ben Moxham (No11), in the air in a dangerous manner in contravention of law 9.17. Details of the hearing will be communicated at a later date.

Citing complaint – Jamison Gibson-Park (Leinster Rugby)
EPCR has received a citing complaint against the Leinster replacement scrum-half, Jamison Gibson-Park (No21), arising from his club’s Heineken Champions Cup round of 16 first leg match against Connacht at The Sportsground on Friday.

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Gibson-Park is alleged to have tackled the Connacht scrum-half, Kieran Marmion (No9), in a dangerous manner in the 56th minute of the match in contravention of law 9.13. Philippe Cavalieros (France, chair), Yannick Jauzion (France) and Mitchell Read (England) have been appointed as the independent disciplinary committee for the hearing which will take place by video conference this evening [Tuesday]. The complaint was made by the match citing commissioner, Maurizio Vancini (Italy).

EPCR CHALLENGE CUP

Red card – Alex Muller (CA Brive)
The CA Brive fullback, Alex Muller (No15), was issued with a red card during his club’s EPCR Challenge Cup round five match against Saracens at Stade Amédée Domenech on Friday. Muller was sent off by the referee, Mike Adamson (Scotland), in the 71st minute of the match for tackling the Saracens replacement wing, Ben Harris (No23), in a dangerous manner in contravention of law 9.13. Details of the hearing will be communicated at a later date.

Citing complaint – WP Nel (Edinburgh Rugby)
EPCR has received a citing complaint against the Edinburgh replacement prop, WP Nel (No18), arising from his club’s EPCR Challenge Cup round five match against Section Paloise at the DAM Health Stadium on Friday. Nel is alleged to have struck the head of the Section Paloise prop, Téo Bordenave (No1), in a dangerous manner in the 42nd minute of the match in contravention of law 9.12.

Simon Thomas (Wales, chair), Donal Courtney (Ireland) and Martyn Wood (England) have been appointed as the independent disciplinary committee for the hearing which will take place by video conference tomorrow [Wednesday]. The complaint was made by the match citing commissioner, Dana Teagarden (Germany).

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JW 47 minutes ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

I rated Lowe well enough to be an AB. Remember we were picking the likes of George Bridge above such players so theres no disputing a lot of bad decisions have been made by those last two coaches. Does a team like the ABs need a finicky winger who you have to adapt and change a lot of your style with to get benefit from? No, not really. But he still would have been a basic improvement on players like even Savea at the tail of his career, Bridge, and could even have converted into the answer of replacing Beauden at the back. Instead we persisted with NMS, Naholo, Havili, Reece, all players we would have cared even less about losing and all because Rieko had Lowe's number 11 jersey nailed down.


He was of course only 23 when he decided to leave, it was back in the beggining of the period they had started retaining players (from 2018 onwards I think, they came out saying theyre going to be more aggressive at some point). So he might, all of them, only just missed out.


The main point that Ed made is that situations like Lowe's, Aki's, JGP's, aren't going to happen in future. That's a bit of a "NZ" only problem, because those players need to reach such a high standard to be chosen by the All Blacks, were as a country like Ireland wants them a lot earlier like that. This is basically the 'ready in 3 years' concept Ireland relied on, versus the '5 years and they've left' concept' were that player is now ready to be chosen by the All Blacks (given a contract to play Super, ala SBW, and hopefully Manu).


The 'mercenary' thing that will take longer to expire, and which I was referring to, is the grandparents rule. The new kids coming through now aren't going to have as many gp born overseas, so the amount of players that can leave with a prospect of International rugby offer are going to drop dramatically at some point. All these kiwi fellas playing for a PI, is going to stop sadly.


The new era problem that will replace those old concerns is now French and Japanese clubs (doing the same as NRL teams have done for decades by) picking kids out of school. The problem here is not so much a national identity one, than it is a farm system where 9 in 10 players are left with nothing. A stunted education and no support in a foreign country (well they'll get kicked out of those countries were they don't in Australia).


It's the same sort of situation were NZ would be the big guy, but there weren't many downsides with it. The only one I can think was brought up but a poster on this site, I can't recall who it was, but he seemed to know a lot of kids coming from the Islands weren't really given the capability to fly back home during school xms holidays etc. That is probably something that should be fixed by the union. Otherwise getting someone like Fakatava over here for his last year of school definitely results in NZ being able to pick the cherries off the top but it also allows that player to develop and be able to represent Tonga and under age and possibly even later in his career. Where as a kid being taken from NZ is arguably going to be worse off in every respect other than perhaps money. Not going to develop as a person, not going to develop as a player as much, so I have a lotof sympathy for NZs case that I don't include them in that group but I certainly see where you're coming from and it encourages other countries to think they can do the same while not realising they're making a much worse experience/situation.

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