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Racing 92 accuse England star of injuring new signing with 'violent tackle'
By Josh Raisey
Top 14 outfit Racing 92 shared a loaded statement yesterday accusing England flanker Tom Curry of injuring their new centre Josua Tuisova in the World Cup quarter-final on Sunday with a “violent” no-arms tackle.
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Stuart Lancaster’s Parisian outfit had no problems pointing the finger of blame on the England openside after the Fijian centre turned up to his new club with an injury to his left knee.
The former Lyon powerhouse left the field on 72 minutes at the Stade Velodrome just after Owen Farrell had kicked a drop-goal to give England the lead again, but was receiving treatment for his knee throughout the match after being tackled by Curry in the first-half. Despite Racing’s protestations, the tackle went unpunished in the match as England won 30-24.
Racing have now confirmed that Tuisova will now see a specialist to determine the severity of his injury and the duration of his absence.
The statement reads: “During the England – Fiji match counting for the 3rd quarter-final of the 2023 Rugby World Cup, last Sunday October 15, the Fijian center of Racing 92 Josua Tuisova suffered a violent tackle without the arms of the English player No7 thus injuring his left knee.
“The player will consult specialist opinions in the coming days to determine the duration of his unavailability.
“Racing 92 wishes Josua Tuisova a speedy recovery and shows him all its support during this period.”
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Though Curry went unpunished with this tackle, Tuisova’s teammate Semi Radradra said after the match that players have to go with the decisions that are given.
“You can’t control that,” the Lyon-bound player said. “As a rugby player, our point of view, we see a different story on the field. It’s the referee’s call and we have to go with it.
“It is what it is, you can’t argue with them.”
Racing currently sit in fourth place in the Top 14 table after three games and face Montpellier next weekend after the league returns.
French clubs love a moan.
Lol tackling those tree trunks, fair play to him
He was lucky to get away with not just the one bit of mischief. After the second (or third time?) one has to wonder.
bench mark decision penalty only for a no arms chopping tackle do you know how dangerous those tackles are? frikken dangerous taking out someones legs while your arms are snuggly by your sides is totally not cool it used to be legal some guys built careers on them such was there devastation as a player i did once and broke the guys leg didnt do it again felt ashamed it was an easy way to tackle with maximum hurt coward tackle hence they banned it fair enough . that tackle is so dangerous it should be a red card you have minimal time to react and what did england get a penalty minimum binned
That was at least worthy of a yellow but like it is some teams were treated different at this world cup
This is the Curry red carded after 2 minutes in the opening pool game. The guy is a lunatic. Sees red mist. Clumsy tackler. He’ll probably get another Red against SA. He comes out so fired up wanting to hurt. It's inevitable. He is a poor tackler. He’ll probably end up decapitating one of the little wingers with a swinging arm, or with a shoulder charge
I think the ref was probably right not to card Curry, but it was very marginal, and wasn’t the only marginal call Curry was involved in on Sunday. He looked like a man possessed, and not in a good way. Hopefully he calms down a bit this week or we’ll be playing the springboks with 14 men.
Should have been yellow in that zone - more dangerous than Eben's head contact by a mile.
Player gets injured in test match…..shocker!!.
The tackle was no doubt reviewed forensically by the TMO at the time, whom found no issue with it.
Racing 92 are bang out of order with this snide post match social media fuckwittery.
What they are insinuating is that all 4 match officials are incompetent.
I didn’t think that clubs could do that!!.
Terrible technique by Curry.