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Owen Farrell free to play after red card thrown out

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Owen Farrell the England captain looks dejected after their defeatduring the Six Nations Rugby match between England and Scotland at Twickenham Stadium on February 04, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

Owen Farrell will lead England into the World Cup after his red card against Wales was not upheld by a disciplinary panel, making him free to play with immediate effect.

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Farrell was sent off at Twickenham on Saturday when his yellow card for a dangerous tackle on Taine Basham was upgraded to a red by the ‘Bunker’ review system.

But the hearing decided that a “late change in dynamics” due to Jamie George’s involvement in the contact area “brought about a sudden and significant change in direction from the ball carrier”.

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Using this mitigation it was decided by the all-Australian panel that Farrell – who was expected to face a mid-range sanction of a six-week suspension – should have been hit with a sin-binning only.

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Michael86 609 days ago

The desperate measures World Rugby is taking to give England the best possible chance of winning the WC, because they are simply too pathetic to do it themselves

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Dave 610 days ago

Red card for the Aussy Panel. Appropriate punishment to include:

An immediate alcohol and drugs ban to be applied for all future Panel deliberations.

Specsavers sponsorship must include an unlimited supply of product to Panelists.

SplitEnz's "I see red" to be played during TMO stoppages at all future England matches.

"Three Blinc Mice" to replace Aussy, Aussy, Aussy, Oi, Oi, Oi" at Aussy internationals.

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Dave 610 days ago

Utter hypocritical BS.

The panel was made up of Aussies (or so I read elsewhere). WTF IS going on?

No doubt Trump will be reaching out to Farrell's lawyer...

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Utiku Old Boy 610 days ago

Disgraceful bias. Northern hemisphere pressure on the so-called "neutral" panel is evident given previous rulings on much less obvious incidents. Stinks of corruption.

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dave 610 days ago

Disgraceful. Let's see if Gosper decides to grow some and do what's right. And we all know what the answer to that will be.

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Jérémie 610 days ago

Ahahahahahaha, so funny ! And I'm sure they're not even ashamed of themselves ! That's absolutely disgusting. It's a good thing that England won't pass the pool, 'cause we don't need to see such players on the field.

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CT 610 days ago

T-Rex is free

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Chris 610 days ago

It becomes harder and harder to argue that rugby is a better game than football. Play acting injury is becoming more common (Josh Adams, Johnny Sexton being the worst culprits) Whilst I can see how JG presence altered the dynamics Farrells shoulder was tucked before that happened he was always going high doing nothing to mitigate a change of height...Where is the support for the officials that are making these decisions.
I'm English and even I think this decision stinks to high heaven

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Jmann 610 days ago

This is beyond absurd. This can only be explained by corruption in the process.

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john 610 days ago

so much for Desperate Dan's 'faux' outrage!

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They didn’t really let him go though did they. He was gone, already signed to leave some 18 months earlier. Not much they could do.


Definitely a shame though, hence why I criticize the coaching for not unlocking that composure earlier. We would have seen he was definitely the player we need to take us through that WC, and the next, before the contract talks started. After, was too late. Conversely, if he had of continued to play the way he had been when he signed to go to Japan, I have no doubt Damien McKenzie would have been the player to lead us in 23’, and then we very likely would have won that Final. I’m not so sure Dmac would hve been good enough to get us past Ireland, Richie definitely deserves a lot of credit for simply getting us to the Final.


But that was all my message to HHT was. That class, or talent in this case, is permeant, and games like Ireland showed he did definitely had that. Obviously Richie’s got a large responsibility in realizing it sooner too, but in terms of not displaying it when it counts in 2019 or 2023, I reckon that’s on the coachs more than a lack of talent on his part, and it’s the same shame when it comes to your sentiment. If he was at the point were he could have saved out bacon against Ireland in 2022, it might not have been too late for NZR to have come in with a big contract offer. The bigger problem now is that Razor is only exasperating that problem with this new group. We now clearly know he was a big factor in Richie taking so long, because he’s replicating the same problems with the current batch. Thankfully NZR had no other option but to offer a big contract to secure Dmac this time though, regardless of how he must have felt after being treated like that.

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Head high tackle 1 hour ago
Super Rugby draw heavily favours NZ sides but they can't win in Australia

Very targeted article that writes to deliberately put across a fake point. Please John tell us who each side has played?

Why has NZ and AUs sides not really clashed? Because of all the “local” derbies John. How many times will the Reds, Brumbies, Tahs and Force , play the Blues, Canes, Saders, Highlanders, Moana and Chiefs John? ONCE per season. If you want to write an article about the failings of the draw then please write about the actual failings of the draw, Not a fabrication about the draw being unfair to the actual sides it heavily favours. Not 1 Aus side will play an NZ team twice to get to the finals. ALL NZ sides will.

To give you ONE example lets look at the Blues draw.

In 9 rounds so far they have played every NZ based side. ( 5 games ) then the Canes twice, Chiefs twice, And this weekend they play the 2nd game v the Saders this season. ( 3 more games ) so the only side they have played thats not an NZ based team is the Brumbies. 1 GAME! Still to play the Reds, Tahs, Force and Drua and will only get 1 game V those sides.


There are 4 Australian sides John. Pure maths tells me that means 2 home games against Aus sides and 2 away games v Aus sides. So basically NO NZ side should ever play more than 2 games in a season in Aus. Aus cut their teams down to 4. This is the direct result.


Yes the draw is not fair, but that heavily favors Aus sides. Either have 1 round or have 2, but this 1.5 rounds isnt fair to ALL NZ based sides.

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