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Jasper Wiese cops ban extending into Rugby Championship after red card

Leicester's Jasper Wiese sees red (Photo by Graham Chadwick/Getty Images)

South Africa No8 Jasper Wiese will miss his country’s series with Ireland in July after receiving a six-match ban following a red card in his final Leicester Tigers appearance.

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The 28-year-old was sent off by referee Karl Dickson with 13 minutes remaining of the Tigers’ 40-22 victory over Exeter Chiefs at Welford Road in the final game of the regular season.

The 27-cap Springbok had picked up opposite man Ross Vintcent at a ruck and dropped him on his head.

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    Following a hearing this week, Wiese has been banned for six games by the RFU, all of which will be South Africa matches now Leicester’s season is over, and will run into the Rugby Championship in August.

    An RFU statement reads: “The case of Jasper Wiese, Leicester Tigers, was heard by an independent disciplinary panel chaired by Jeremy Summers sitting with Martyn Wood and Olly Kohn.

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    “He was shown a red card for lifting another player off the ground and dropping or driving that player so that their head and/or upper body makes contact with the ground, contrary to World Rugby Law 9.18, during a game against Exeter Chiefs on 18 May 2024.

    “The player admitted the charge and received a six-match ban.”

    Provided Wiese is released by Leicester to South Africa for their fixture against Wales on June 22, and that the SARU confirm after July 13 that he is required to play against Portugal on July 20, the six matches he will miss will be:

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    South Africa v Wales (Twickenham)
    South Africa v Ireland (Pretoria)
    South Africa v Ireland (Durban)
    South Africa v Portugal (Bloemfontein)
    Australia v South Africa
    Australia v South Africa

    The ban was announced on the same day that Wiese was named in the Gallagher Premiership team of the season for the third consecutive season.

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    John 297 days ago

    is he the best 8 available for RSA?

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    Burger 297 days ago

    Totally - there was no malice, he just got it wrong and soft landing. Guess that's what you get for winning the WC.

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    Bull Shark 298 days ago

    A stupid, stupid thing to do. But a 6 game ban seems a tad over the top.

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    RedWarriors 3 hours ago
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    I think we need to call out the red card non-decision here and acknowledge the damage that France, through Galthie, have done to confidence in the officaiting and citing process.

    It started when Garry Ringrose had club matches included in his ban following similar precedents for (Atonio, Haouas, Danty) who were all carded/cited in match just before fallow week and club matches counted. Ntamacks citing was in week 1 and harder to demonstrate availability for club match with another International match between. Preceednt ~(O’Mahony 2021) was followed. Reading the written decision for Ntamack shows that Galthie understood this perfectly. Yet after the Ringrose ban included club matches, Galthie publicly goes berserk screaming ‘Injustice (against France”. Again, he knows the precedents for Ringrose are all French and indeed the only person preceding Ntamack to have club matches count in that situation was France’s Willemse.

    The media swallowed this up wholesale and the story started circulating and being added to without a single journalist/pundit (except rush Mirror) actually reading the Ntamack decision. Sneaky Ireland had better briefs than honest naive France was one random addition by a pundit which becamse accpeted fact without checking etc and added to the circulation.

    Angered by losing his star player Galthie again lashes out. He knows know he can de facto attack individual players, the media won’t intervene and as long as he doesnt directly attack an individual official he will stay out of trouble.

    So he attacks players who then het threatened by some lunatic French supporters online. Ireland are ‘Butchers’ apparently. The passive head contact earning Nash a yellow now becomes a double head hit on Barrassi, requiring a double red.

    France who have more dangerous tackle citings under Galthie than all other six nations combined. They get more favourable outcomes than all other teams. poor France are now the victims of great injustice. It is farce.

    But it paid off.

    Mauvaka struck the Scottish Scrum half with a diving head butt in Sundays match. Its a clear red. Scotlands back line attack looked superiors to France’s and Scotland were there or there abouts.

    What I can only assume is the chilling affect on Galthie’s public attacks Carley send it to the bunker. A deliberate head butt is a clear red on more than one count. There is no doubt, bo grey area.

    If thats a red card do France win the match? I would say that Scotland are likely winners, which would have meant England winning the title.

    Spilled milk now, but World Rugby, the citing commisioners and officials cannot allow big Unions to publicly intimidate the officiating process and attack individual players from other teams.

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