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Watch: 'A serious act of foul play here, we are on a red card'

(Photo by Steve Bardens/Getty Images for Sale Sharks)

Saturday’s massive Heineken Champions Cup battle in Manchester between Sale and Toulouse was marred by an early red card after Sharks lock Cobus Wiese was sent off for a dangerous 19th-minute clear-out on Dorian Aldegheri.

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With the clock stopped on 18:17 minutes, referee Mike Adamson reviewed breakdown footage with his TMO Ben Blain and the outcome was to give the Sale second row Wiese his marching orders for tucking his arm and colliding with the head of Aldegheri.

Adamson said: “We have got a tucked arm, do we? So he is coming from distance, we have got a tucked arm… we have got a serious act of foul play here. We are on a red card. The player has come from distance, high level of danger, direct contact with the head.”

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With his mind made up, the referee explained the sanction to Sale skipper Ben Curry. “I have a decision, Ben. We have got direct contact with the head with a tucked shoulder. It’s a red card.”

Former Wales and Lions captain Sam Warburton, who was commentating on the match live on BT Sport, felt it was the correct decision. “It is actually a great height for Wiese to come in… he has got a legitimate clean-out of he targets the ribs and leg but because he is tucked, that is the issue. He is tucked and there is head contact.

“You just can’t tuck and clean out… I always say when you go there you have to go at it like a sort of 45 (degree) angle and you have got to target the leg and you have got to pull his leg, get him off his feet, You can’t go head with a shoulder. You have just got to try and stay away from that, try and come in at just a slightly more gentle angle.”

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It was just four weeks ago when Sale were beaten 19-45 by Toulouse in France, indiscipline leaving them down to 14 men for 30 minutes of that game after hooker Akker van der Merwe, full-back Byron McGuigan and wing Tom O’Flaherty were shown yellow cards. However, they initially coped much better with the Wiese red card in Manchester.

Ahead 5-0 thanks to a van der Merwe try when their second row was sent off, they reached the interval still ahead on a 5-3 scoreline having quickly decided to sacrifice a back for an extra body up front with sub flanker Sam Dugdale replacing winger Arron Reed. Their efforts became unstuck, though, in the second half as Sale fell to a 27-5 defeat.

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JW 5 hours 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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