McCaw incident moves IRB to action
9 Nov 2011
The International Rugby Board is considering extending the window that allows them to cite players for foul play.
This after they were prevented from acting upon evidence of serious foul play during last month’s World Cup final involving France’s Aurelien Rougerie and New Zealand skipper Richie McCaw.
Television footage showed Rougerie raking his hand across McCaw’s face and the governing body believes the midfielder would have faced a lengthy ban had this evidence arisen within the 36-hour window in which citings could happen.
‘The International Rugby Board can confirm that no action can be taken to initiate a citing case following an alleged act of foul play during the Rugby World Cup 2011 Final on 23 October,’ the IRB statement said.
‘[IRB's citing commissioner] Scott Nowland has determined that he cannot cite the alleged act of foul play as the footage emerged outside the citing period and he is unable to bring the matter within the exceptional circumstances provisions contained in the Tournament Disciplinary Rules which deal principally with mistaken identity and where further time is required to identify a player who may have committed an act of foul play.
“Both Unions have been advised of the outcome. The IRB and Rugby World Cup Limited take all acts of foul play seriously. The ongoing review of Regulation 17 governing the disciplinary process will give consideration to tournament rules and IRB Regulations to consider either extending the citing periods or widening the remit of the exceptional circumstance provisions to deal with the emergence of evidential materials following the elapse of the citing period.’
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10 Nov 2011, 21:52 pm
@Sasuke(Sasuke)-342: yes bryce lawrence is kak. but just as wayneBarnes was kak in 2007 and returned to ref again in 2011 so will bryce.
you need to get over it and start looking at rebuilding the boks.
boks were never going to win with PDV as coach and the playerPower effectively leading to senior players picking themseleves.
honestly did you treally want boks to win. can you imagine PDV being in charge for another 4 years? bryce did u guys a favour.
do you really think the Rugby Cup World champions care that you’ve lost respect for NZ rugby? what kind of nothing statement is that? winners are grinners
11 Nov 2011, 02:04 am
Hats off to Bryce and do NOT try any funny business with Sir Richie, captain of the world champions.
11 Nov 2011, 02:24 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-352: shouldnt that be – King Richard ‘the Lion Heart’ McCaw
11 Nov 2011, 03:03 am
His Imperial Majesty.
11 Nov 2011, 07:32 am
@ufo(ufo)-7:
Yip mate, it just shows you who rules the IRB. Evident in so many things.
It only we had a intelligent rugby administration, we’d be able to have a lot more influence, instead they’re a bunch of idiots and therefore get walked all over.
11 Nov 2011, 12:37 pm
@Sasuke(Sasuke)-254:
Absolutely 100% correct – good writing
11 Nov 2011, 22:14 pm
@J.B. Cowper(J.B. Cowper)-356:
If you get such a hard on over the idea of retrospective rule changes, then you would be really excited if this extended to expunging some of the results from the odious period when SA’n ref’s controlled games at home.
11 Nov 2011, 22:55 pm
The extension of this window would be very bad news for the proteas.As the worlds acknowledged dirtiest team[to many examples to even begin writing down]they would suffer the most.
I for one hope this dosn’t occur ,as the World Champion All Blacks need to be playing against the best players Saffie land has,the Proteas chances of trying to even out the Allblack/Protea head to head score will surely take a huge knock if this ruling was inforced.
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