Reckless Tuilagi to miss SA tour?
29 May 2012
England centre Manu Tuilagi has been cited for a tip tackle and may not be able to play in England’s three Tests against South Africa.
The Leicester midfielder has been charged with a breach of law 10.4 following a report by the citing officer on duty at Saturday’s Premiership final between the Tigers and Harlequins.
The incident occurred in the opening minutes of the match and if Tuilagi is found guilty he could miss England’s tour to South Africa next month.
The case will be heard by Christopher Quinlan QC in Bristol on Tuesday night. Quinlan will also need to take Tuilagi’s poor disciplinary record into account when making the judgement.
Tuilagi was fined for jumping off a ferry in Auckland harbour last October after England were knocked out of the World Cup. A few months prior to that incident, Tuilagi missed the Premiership final because of a ban for punching.
His exclusion would serve to deny England a potent attacking weapon. England will also be without forwards Tom Croft, Tom Wood and Courtney Lawes.
14 Comments
29 May 2012, 09:49 am
Would be a relief for some… but disappointing for mine… nothing better than beating a settled Pom side with a make-shift Bok side… much like what JW did against arguably one of the strongest IRE sides of their time in 2004…
29 May 2012, 10:02 am
lancaster will be forced to pick barritt at 13, carthorse of note.
29 May 2012, 10:05 am
hope barritt runs over quota de jongh … that is if meyer “has” to meet the required quota numbers – k@k country this!
29 May 2012, 10:46 am
Will be a pity. Who will Chris Ashton room with then?
29 May 2012, 11:44 am
I would never underestimae a pommie side – especially one expected to lose
29 May 2012, 13:46 pm
Tuilagi Jr will get away with it, those PIs almost always managed to
Look no further than the PI who ‘coconutted’ Mvovo few weeks ago
29 May 2012, 14:20 pm
I’m sorry. The Poms are not looking impressive to me at all. I honestly do not think that Meyer needs to lose sleep about this tour. Tired Boks to win 3 – 0. Seriously.
29 May 2012, 14:21 pm
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-7:
Don’t apologise, we forgive you.
29 May 2012, 14:24 pm
@rossoneri(rossoneri)-7:
Food for thought – if Courtney Lawes passed the ball to his outside on the overlap, England would have beaten Wales and would have won the 6N.
The passage of play I refer to eventually resulted in the ball being ripped from Lawes and resulted in Jonathan Davies’ try.
The English are a very good team.
Sure, they might be rebuilding, but so are the Boks…
29 May 2012, 16:09 pm
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-1:
This is far from a settled side. It’s one of the least experienced and youngest sides in English history.
29 May 2012, 16:40 pm
@hib04bs(hib04bs)-10:
This English side has had 5 (plus Baabaas) games together with the only loss coming against the 6N champs and then going on to beat France and smash Ireland…
The Boks are going into the first test never having played together as a unit…
29 May 2012, 17:02 pm
@grant10(grant100)-3: Then fck off already. You’re depriving some deserving youngster of a decent job at MacDonalds.
29 May 2012, 17:04 pm
This tip tackle really wasn’t so bad. He lifted Danny Care up beyond 90 degrees, but he certainly didn’t drop or drive him into the ground. The IRB are going soft in the head on this rule.
30 May 2012, 00:51 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-11:
6 games where there were a number of changes: Morgan for Dowson, Dickson for Youngs, Farrell for Hodgson and Tuliagi for Barritt is hardly a settled side. This is one of the least experienced sides in English history.
The players Meyer will select will probably have played together more times as Test players than the English side.
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