IRB to review Thomson’s citing

IRB to review Thomson’s citing

15 Nov 2012

The IRB has confirmed that they will investigate All Blacks flank Adam Thomson’s one-week ban for stamping a player’s head.

Thomson was handed the suspension on Wednesday after being found guilty of stamping and trampling on the head of Scotland’s Alasdair Strokosch. Thomson will miss this Saturday’s Test against Italy, but will be available to face Wales next weekend.

Wallabies lock Rob Simmons received an eight-week ban for a tip tackle on the same day.

This has drawn huge protest.

Samoa centre Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu, who received a three-week ban for controversial comments on Twitter, slammed the judicial process.

‘I got 3 weeks for sarcastic tweets. So had I just rucked Farrells head I would have got only a week? Its just so comical these days,’ said Fuimaono-Sapolu.

Former England hooker Brian Moore labelled Thomson’s ban as ‘ludicrously lenient’.

However, IRB chief executive Brett Gosper responded to Moore’s comments and similar complaints on Twitter by saying: ‘The IRB will review this case as it is a match under our jurisdiction. If we decide to take action we will make it public.’


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  • 51.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:09 am

    @ryecatcher-48:
    it goes right over their heads.

    consistency, that’s all. a common set of rules for all wo play the game.

    how they can feel good about themselves when winning rigged contests which in no way proves they can beat the best FAIRLY is beyond me.

    i wouldnt feel good about my team if this ws the way they achieved any victories.

  • 52.Te Rangatira: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:13 am

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-50:
    Mate….you are free to voice your opinion, would rather engage you on topics outside the realm of cheating conspiracies and adjectives of filth, so all good….as you were.

  • 53.Brads: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:21 am

    @ryecatcher-48:
    No, the underlying issue here is the heartfelt belief that NZ actually gets special treatment.

    Well I don’t see it, but if it does, and we can maintain it at the nil $ cost it is at moment, I am a happy fellow.

    That said, why exactly the world would both accommodate and then ***** and moan about the supposed special treatment is puzzling.

  • 54.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:28 am

    @Te Rangatira-52:
    cheers TR, will try to engage you on topics of your interest more often.

  • 55.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:28 am

    @gonzo-24: players are cited and carded for targeting McCaw all the time, but they wouldn’t target him at all if he didn’t insist on cheating at almost every ruck

  • 56.ryecatcher: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:35 am

    @ryecatcher-48: From a bloggerTodays Telegraph.
    “F0r all their wonderful skills they are a charmless lot losing so much
    goodwill by their highly developed sharp practices.
    From the joyless Haka to the final whistle they make it very difficult to feel any warmth towards the greatest rugby nation on earth.

  • 57.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:41 am

    the endless whinge of neanderthal 8th equal supporters is music to my ears..

    cant play rugby well enough so have to go down the poor journalism route of cheating, bias etc etc..

    I thought SA wasnt for sissies?

    seems the place s over run with them…

    I mean, the bulls playing a second string side in the final game of the super season which set up an all SA final has to be investigated… corruption is SA’s middle name..

    Big Hit – so you condone Rougerie gouging McCaw because he was at the bottom of a ruck? you condone the gouging by the irishman during the 3 test series because Mccaw was competing for the ball?

    typical of losers, not good enough to compete so think violence is acceptable..

  • 58.ryecatcher: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:41 am

    @ryecatcher-56: @ryecatcher-56: But a brilliant team

  • 59.Brads: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:42 am

    @Big Hit-55:
    Are you for real?

    You actually condone thuggery against a player your team is incapable of countering because they lack the necessary skills.

    That is like promoting head high forearm impacts into the face of perennially offside Habana to stop him from “cheating”

  • 60.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:44 am

    @Te Rangatira-52: dont waste your bandwidth on the biggest example of Saffa entitlement the world has ever seen..

    bakkies is a fcktard of the highest order, and does rugby a dis-service by pretending to be a supporter of the game..

    I bet hes never played it..

  • 61.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:46 am

    @Brads-59: just goes to show how jealous these fckers are..

    6 wins in 100 years for Big hits team
    12/13 wins in 20 years for SA

    says it all huh?

  • 62.Brads: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:49 am

    @poppa69-61:
    Desperate folk clutch at anything when they are drowning.

  • 63.katman: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:52 am

    Jeez, these Kiwis don’t like their foul play to be examined one bit. Two little citings and it’s like Wayne Barnes Part II round here.

    Chillax, brothers. It’s not like they took your haka away.

    Yet.

  • 64.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:53 am

    @ryecatcher-56: Oh my hat. Bakkies has infiltrated the European interweb?

  • 65.Te Rangatira: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 10:57 am

    @poppa69-60:
    Kia ora Pops….how you been keeping? Theres a Tip oldboys reunion next year…so may see your whanau there or perhaps yourself…at the moment doing a touch strip for the oldboys for the Whakatane tourney…..Houston would have a field day if he had of watched house rugby……

  • 66.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:00 am

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-64:
    :lol:

    no, wasn’t me.

    not hard to believe a lot of people the world over do not like them or the way they play.

  • 67.Brads: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:01 am

    @katman-63:
    We are happy to have it examined, as it was with Thomson.

    You lot have the problem with the result of said examination.

    Deal with it.

  • 68.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:02 am

    @katman-63:
    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-64:
    i’ve read a few of the comments up there since Rye’s posting of that particular comment and it would seem as though there are a number of kiwis posting up there who are viewed/labeled as trolls by the other bloggers, haha go figure.

  • 69.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:03 am

    Oooooooo

    Knives are out today!

  • 70.Brads: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:04 am

    @Dawn-69:
    Good morning Dawn.

  • 71.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:12 am

    @Brads-59: I did not condone thuggery, I merely re-iterated why he is targeted (as if everyone doesn’t already know).

    Tell me though, what skills are required when the opposition 7 consistently lies all over the ball without censure? consistently plays the ball in the ruck while off his feet? deliberately offends in the red zone when a try is on without being carded?

    McCaw is targeted physically by multiple nation’s players because he persistently and continuously cheats while the ref does nothing about it.

  • 72.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:17 am

    yip

    he hasn’t reffereed a 100 plus games successfully for nz for nothing.

  • 73.Te Rangatira: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:18 am

    @Big Hit-71:
    You might not condone thuggery but you surely condone exaggerations of the highest order……I think that is a term called bullshitter….

  • 74.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:21 am

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-68: Bakkies, imagine how much good work you could do up north?
    Being the charismatic evangelist that you are and all?

    Those AB’s would be banished to the rugby wilderness before one could say “conspiracy”.

  • 75.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:22 am

    @Te Rangatira-73: nice of you.

  • 76.Brads: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:24 am

    @Big Hit-71:
    I can only be put down to brilliance.

    If it takes slo-mo many take replays for couch potato experts like you to identify possible law breaches, what chance does the Ref have.

    After all, he is standing a meter or so away and can clearly see what is going on but is apparently missing all this damning evidence.

  • 77.ryecatcher: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:24 am

    @Dawn-69: Hello Lady Dawn.

  • 78.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:26 am

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-74:
    thing is they are roundly called out for the cheats and dirty team they are by just about every single nation they play against but its all done seperately and in relation to each individual coutry’s blogging communities.

    the only constant and common denominator seems to be kiwi rugby related posters/bloggers who sing pretty much, hymn for hymn, the same song over there as well.

    perhaps if we, the rugby community of nations, did start interacting with one another more often it may indeed go towards eradicating this scourge from the game we love.

  • 79.Te Rangatira: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:28 am

    @Big Hit-75:
    I will try to be nicer,,,,

  • 80.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:32 am

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-78: You should be in politics or charasmatic religion. I would say the latter…..as there is money to be sucked from lost disciples aplenty.

  • 81.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:33 am

    @Te Rangatira-79: as will I :)

  • 82.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:35 am

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-80:
    :lol:

    ironically enough, you are not the first person to tell me that.

    now, if i had a rand for every time someone told me to go into politics or religion… :lol:

  • 83.cane: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:35 am

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-78:

    Of course you and others call us cheats.

    what else can you say.

    “The All Blacks are infinately better than us”.

    Not likely is it. So you and Big ot are reduced to shouting obscenities from the side line.

  • 84.cane: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:38 am

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-80:

    Bakkies should be jail………………………………….not Politics or Religion.

  • 85.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:38 am

    @Te Rangatira-65: kia ora bro… had surgery on the weekend, 12 screws and a plate affixed to my right humerus… so as well as can be..

    a Tipene reunion, awesome… keep me posted and may try and get back home for it.. Bakkies would have been scared sh1tless of house rugby bro, he cries enough on here as it is..

    imagine him on the sidelines when school vs school, 500 odd maori youngsters all doing the haka in unison..

  • 86.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:42 am

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-66: you mean like the italians at the san siro? seems it will be another sell-out this weekend… same as last time we played there..

    80000 italians, whose love of the game is secondary by a long shot to soccer, yet they have now twice snapped up all tix to watch the pre-eminent team in world rugby..

    jealous because your bokke cant sell that many in a non rugby country?

  • 87.katman: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:43 am

    @cane-83: Cheat is such a polarising word, caner. It’s easy to reduce it to a black or white issue. But of course there are all sorts of shades in between.

    I see the AB’s as the Lance Armstrong of world rugby. Even without the cheating, he was absolutely brilliant.

    But still he had to cheat. Pity.

    :)

  • 88.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:44 am

    @cane-83:
    no cane, we call you cheats because you are.

    what part is tripping you up?

  • 89.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:46 am

    @cane-84:
    :lol:

    knowing you lot i wouldn’t be surprised if i was stiched up for a stint.

    @poppa69-86:
    everybody sells tickets, you lame’o

  • 90.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:46 am

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-88: the hypocrisy part…

    SA doesnt cheat,theyre just not good enough, even with all their “incredible depth” :lol: and you supporters lap that type of bullsh!t up regularly..

    like the new world order of rugby after 2009

    hahaha we all know how that ended..

  • 91.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:47 am

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-89: SA has never got 80000 italians to buy tickets to watch them play, I wonder why fcktard?

  • 92.cane: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:48 am

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-88:

    This thread is not even on Keo’s page 1 of articles anymore.

    But you can’t help yourself can you Bakkies!

    Keep SHOUTING. Loser.

  • 93.ryecatcher: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:48 am

    @cane-84: one gets plenty of both in our jails

  • 94.cane: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:50 am

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-89:

    Would if I could.

    ;)

  • 95.cane: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:51 am

    @ryecatcher-93:

    1st hand knowledge Ryeman?

  • 96.ryecatcher: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:52 am

    @cane-95: I hope that was a joke.No lol No smiley

  • 97.The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:52 am

    @poppa69-85: Sounds like a nasty injury there. Hope you taking it easy and get well soon. Long rehab that I reckon? Good luck.

    @cane-84: In SA, jail is the logical follow on from either politics or religion.

  • 98.ryecatcher: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:53 am

    @The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-97: Thanks Lady Pedigree

  • 99.cane: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:54 am

    @katman-87:

    I heard some Saffa cyclist got caught a couple of weeks back as well.

    Rotten sport. Rotten to the core.

    A bit like Bakkies.

  • 100.cane: Reply to this comment
    16 Nov 2012, 11:54 am

    @ryecatcher-96:

    Glade to hear it.

    ;)

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