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Oghre citing result will pique interest of England exile George

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Wasps’ Gabriel Oghre has seemingly had his hopes of involvement in the autumn internationals with England dashed following the receipt of a three-match ban after he was cited for a dangerous tackle in last Sunday’s Gallagher Premiership win over Northampton in Coventry.   

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Having been involved in the summer training squad, the uncapped 23-year-old hooker was one of eight uncapped players included in the 45-strong chosen for last month’s mini-training camp in London. That was the gathering that Eddie Jones excluded the established Jamie George from, paving the way for Oghre to be included.

However, with the next England squad due to be announced on October 18 for the training camp in Jersey ahead of the November matches versus Tonga, Australia and South Africa, Oghre won’t feature following a suspension that will rule him out of the upcoming Wasps matches versus Exeter, Saracens and Bath.

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While George is finding his way back to form with Saracens, this three-match ban currently takes Oghre through to November 2, but it could be cut by a week if the player applies to World Rugby for a coaching intervention and satisfactorily completes the intervention.

Oghre was cited by Paul Hull following last Sunday’s match after he was yellow-carded for foul play on Alex Mitchell and he accepted the charge when appearing on Tuesday night before a disciplinary panel comprising Gareth Graham (chair) with Olly Kohn and Leon Lloyd.

At the hearing, Oghre claimed he had no intention to make contact with the head of the Northampton player and that it was an unintended consequence of a poorly executed tackle, candidly accepting that he got his positioning and execution wrong. The written judgment stated: “By his plea, the player accepted that the referee’s decision on the field (which was to give the player a yellow card) was incorrect having regard to the implementation of the head contact process.”

The judgment added: “This was a poorly executed, reckless tackle that made direct contact to the head. The panel had no hesitation in concluding that in all the circumstances of this case a mid-range entry point (six weeks) was appropriate. In the circumstances, the panel accepted that the player was entitled to the maximum deduction of 50 per cent by way of mitigation.”

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JW 28 minutes ago
Let's be real about these All Blacks

I didn't really get the should tone from it, but maybe because I was just reading it as my own thoughts.


What I read it as was examples of how they played well enough in every game to be able to win it.


Yeah I dunno if Ben wouldn't see it that way (someone else would for sure need to point it out to him though), I'm more in the Ben not appreciating that those close losses werent one off scenarios camp. Sure you can look at dubious decisions causing them to have to play with 14 or 13 men at the death as viable reasons but even in the games they won without such difficulties they made a real struggle of it (compared to how good some of their first half play was). This kind of article where you trying to point out the 3 losses really would most likely have been wins only really makes sense/works when your other performances make those 3 games (or endings) stand out.


There might have been a sentence here and there to ensure some good comment numbers but when he's signing off the article by saying things like ..

Whilst these All Blacks aren’t blowing teams off the park like during the 2010s, they are nuggety and resourceful and don’t wilt. They are prepared to win the hard way, accumulating points by any means necessary.

and..

The other top sides in the world struggled to put them away. France and South Africa both could have well been defeated on home soil.

I don't really see it. Always making sure people are upto date with the SH standing/perspective! NZ went through some tough times with so many different perspectives and reasons why, but then it was.. amusing how.. behind everyone was once they turned a corner. More of these 'unfortunate' results returned against SA and France at the start of the RWC which made it extra tasty to catch other teams out when they did bring it. So that created some 'conscious' perspective that I just kept going and sharing re thoughts on similar predicaments of other teams, I had been really confident that Wallabies displays vs NZ were real, that the Argentines can backup their thing against Aus and SA (and so obviously the rest), and current one is that England are actually consistent and improving with their attack (which everyone should get onboard with), and I'm expecting a more dominant display against Japan (even though they should have more of their experienced internationals for this one) that highlights further growth from July. 👍

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