Bledisloe 2 - Wallabies vs All Blacks, Wellington, 27 August 2016

[D-Box]

Right in front of him as well

Hey actually says get your hands off his face

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[FrankLind]

I don't know if he actually eye gouged him though. It looked as if he thought about it and then didn't go through with it.

 

[KOB1987]

I don't know if he actually eye gouged him though. It looked as if he thought about it and then didn't go through with it.

yeah but you're a Kiwi.

this is where NZ will show why they're a step ahead of everyone else though. even if he doesn't get pinned for it, because it's so obvious I bet he doesn't get picked for the next game. They won't say why, he just won't get picked.

 

[biggsy]

BAAAAAAM SBW

 

[Saxter]

I don't know if he actually eye gouged him though. It looked as if he thought about it and then didn't go through with it.

Haha. You're more one-eyed than Kane Douglas now is.

 

[cyclopath]

Happened about 6 mins in. I couldn't believe neither ref or AR saw it.

Poite did see it - he told Franks "not the head" then watched as he proceeded to go hard at it. Completely inept display. Plus, the AR couldn't have been more than 10-15 feet away. Just hopeless.

 

[louie]

Maybe some attention seeking fool who values the game so much they give their medal away to a rich kid?

 

[cyclopath]

I don't know if he actually eye gouged him though. It looked as if he thought about it and then didn't go through with it.

Yeah, nah. The law precludes contact with the face especially around the eyes. It's not ambiguous.

 

[FrankLind]

So contact with the face is the same penalty as eye-gouging?? Honestly don't know.

EDIT
Watched a replay of the clip ever so closely, and yes he does appear to have tried to gouge his eyes.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11701127

And this reverse angle confirmed it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJm21U4hRzb/

 

[cyclopath]

So contact with the face is the same penalty as eye-gouging?? Honestly don't know.

No, contact with the face around the eyes is not on. It's supposed to be a yellow card offence or worse. Definite eye-gouging might be worse. I think the idea is to discourage fingers near eyes, because, you know, blindness. What Franks did, whether intentional or in a fugue-state, should have been sanctioned. Even more so since the ref told him to stop before he did it!!!!

 

[CatchnPass]

Genia for MOTM, a line break, that intercept that saved a try, few snipes. Good service.

Genia did a good job, but he's only MOTM if we are limited to Wobs. Otherwise Barrett, Smith, Coles (OK, maybe not after the gouge), Retallick et al are well in front.

 

[Sully]

I may have missed it in the thread but after he went for the eyes he moved his grip and tried to rip his throat out.

 

[FrankLind]

No, contact with the face around the eyes is not on. It's supposed to be a yellow card offence or worse. Definite eye-gouging might be worse. I think the idea is to discourage fingers near eyes, because, you know, blindness. What Franks did, whether intentional or in a fugue-state, should have been sanctioned. Even more so since the ref told him to stop before he did it!!!!

So what you're saying is a one match suspension served as an emergency call-up for the "injured" prop in his Canterbury club side.

 

[Viking]

I don't know if he actually eye gouged him though. It looked as if he thought about it and then didn't go through with it.

He very clearly attacked the face though... still pretty bad in my books should never attack the face like that.

 

[HoldingOn]

He very clearly attacked the face though. still pretty bad in my books should never attack the face like that.

Nobody knows what is in Poite's books

 

[Viking]

Genia did a good job, but he's only MOTM if we are limited to Wobs. Otherwise Barrett, Smith, Coles (OK, maybe not after the gouge), Retallick et al are well in front.

i was referring to wallabies only. NZ probably have 15 plus players ahead for MOTM before a wallaby is picked.

 

[cyclopath]

So what you're saying is a one match suspension served as an emergency call-up for the "injured" prop in his Canterbury club side.

Do you really want to know what I'm saying? Because it aint fucking that.

 

[mark_s]

If someone has a recording, I'd like to know what happened to pocock later in the first half. He was running to a ruck, then ended up on the ground looking a bit dazed. He rejoined play a few rucks later.

As for the game, same shit different day. Line out, ruck, tackling, kicking all sub par. Scrum, not good. Attack, mostly non existent.

I gotta say that A Smith is a freak. He has some friends in the ABs but he has taken half back play to a new level.

 

[cyclopath]

Nobody knows what is in Poite's books

Pictures.

 

[Strewthcobber]

So contact with the face is the same penalty as eye-gouging?? Honestly don't know.

The foul play regulations call up

Contact with the Eye(s) or the Eye Area

Obviously the worst the incident the worse the penalty will be but the low end penalty is a 12 week suspension