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Rougeries's eye gouge

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Dam0

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Dave Cowper (27)
Ouch. That is pretty bloody filthy from Rougerie. I know McCaw said he didn't want to lay a complaint, but Rougerie is bloody lucky.

He could have gotten 6 months to a year for that sort of shit.

For those of you who haven't seen the footage from Reunion, it will no doubt be all over youtube soon. Pretty sickening stuff.
 
crangs81

crangs81

Larry Dwyer (12)
That doesn't look very pretty. Think the AB's had a responsibilty to site that. No place for it in the game
 
mark_s

mark_s

Chilla Wilson (44)
It looks bad. I thought McCaw pointed it out to Joubert during the game as there was a ruck where he approached joubert pointing at his eye.

Judging by similar incidents earlier in the cup, Rougerie won't be cited.
 
crangs81

crangs81

Larry Dwyer (12)
mark_s said:
It looks bad. I thought McCaw pointed it out to Joubert during the game as there was a ruck where he approached joubert pointing at his eye.

Judging by similar incidents earlier in the cup, Rougerie won't be cited.
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Yip, the window for a citing has now passed
 
Athilnaur

Athilnaur

Arch Winning (36)
Doubt it would be 6 months, Ghiraldini got 15 weeks, but totally unacceptable.

But then so was Burgers on Pocock. And how did Kepu cop that eye he got in the semi? Do the citing commission actually do anything if no complaint is laid, you'd be forgiven for thinking no.
 
Dan54

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Tim Horan (67)
Not sure Al, I understood there was citing commissioner who watched games and then made decision, no team needs to cite, and hardly ever do.
 
Scotty

Scotty

David Codey (61)
So we have one team knocked out partly because of red card against a lifting tackle gone wrong (intentional tackle but not intentional hurting of the player, while the likes of rougerie and burger get off Scott free with attempted eye gouges that are intended to maim.

What sort of message is being sent here?

I seriously think that if warburton deserves 3 weeks then rougerie deserves 6 months and burger should never play again (due to past indiscretions).
 
Da Munch

Da Munch

Chris McKivat (8)
OMG someone touched Sir Richie other than QC (Quade Cooper) (ignoring the no10 who might of hurt his knee with his head when Super Rugby barged into to form a ruck - obviously completely off his feet @ 946 and the offending player was rolling away and Jourbert didn't stop play for the injured player as he did for the nz's in the 2nd half) wonder if this will deflect any interest (boo's) for QC (Quade Cooper)?

And no I don't condone the eye gouging but when the refs obviously not looking at the ruck, like wtf is Richie doing there in the first place? people are going to do stupid stuff - Bryce and Burger as has been pointed out above come to mind
 
No4918

No4918

John Hipwell (52)
Why is it left up to sides to report these issues? If someone is caught they should be dealt with.

But yeah bit rich of McCaw to let this go after siting Cooper. Double standards?
 
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