Wallabies lock gets heavy ban
15 Nov 2012
Rob Simmons has received an eight-week suspension for a dangerous tackle on Yannick Nyanga in Paris last Saturday.
Wallabies coach Robbie Deans said the ARU had not decided whether it would appeal.
‘We’re disappointed in the decision but I haven’t had the opportunity to read the decision yet and obviously we’ll do that before we settle on [whether] that’s the end of the matter or not,’ he said.
The IRB judicial officer deemed Simmons’s tackle to be at the ‘high end’ of the scale, so gave an entry point of 12 weeks. Two weeks was added as a ‘deterrent’ before six weeks was taken off the penalty for Simmons’s ‘exemplary previous disciplinary record’.
The Wallabies were dealt a further blow when centre Pat McCabe was ruled out of the Test against England with a stiff neck that requires further scans.
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15 Nov 2012, 07:37 am
And Thompson gets one week for a stomp on the head. Is anyone still surprised?
15 Nov 2012, 07:40 am
Ugly tackle. Lucky no one was badly hurt. Brainless dragon
15 Nov 2012, 07:45 am
Shame man it just gets harder for the Wallabies. They might lose again this season.
15 Nov 2012, 07:48 am
Compare Thompson foot work which the Scot player said he didn’t even feel with what Greyling did to McCaw with his flying elbow . Why should Thompsons penalty be as big as Greylings when one was obviously so much more lethal than the other?
15 Nov 2012, 07:53 am
The whole system remains a farce.
Big deal, first he gets 12 weeks, then 14 minus 6 “for previous good behaviour” and ends being slapped with eight when there are only two weeks left anyway.
As far as I know they still do not carry over the remaining weeks into the new season and even if they did, when will it be deemed to have started?
It’s suich a joke.
15 Nov 2012, 07:56 am
Great to hear that the Thompson ban will be reviewed, he tramped on a guys head for pete’s sake!!!! what if Al turned his head at that moment and caught a stud in the eye, the intent was there from Adam, the execution of said intent doesnt matter.
look at the 2 weeks Etzebeth (a guy will a clean record) got for only motioning his head towards Sharp, he didnt even make contact!!! now tell me how fair the IRB siting system is.
AB’s are a protected species in this sport and it is disgusting how much they get away with.
15 Nov 2012, 07:59 am
@MacToogie-6:
“he tramped on a guys head for pete’s sake!!!! ”
No Toogie.
Adams boot “touched” the little Jocks head. Don’t get carried away.
15 Nov 2012, 08:00 am
@aliboy-4:
Justice for Adam.
15 Nov 2012, 08:01 am
All Blacks rule!
15 Nov 2012, 08:02 am
Another thread for Bakkies to sink his teeth into.
He will be positively orgasmic.
15 Nov 2012, 08:09 am
@cane-7:
yeah right, we you can try sugarcoat it anyway you like, his intent was clear, the only thing that slowed him down was the realization (almost too late) that there are cameras all around watching.
15 Nov 2012, 08:14 am
wow!
guess the ugly cousin had to pay the piper on the othes behalf
15 Nov 2012, 08:21 am
@cane-10:
remind me again what that ugly ***** retallick got for spearing bekker..?..
hmmm..?..
15 Nov 2012, 08:22 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-12:
Yep Houston…once again…..God bless Australia
15 Nov 2012, 08:25 am
SUCH BS, Adam says he never intended to tramp on Al’s head, you could practically see his small cog rotating as he pondered setting his studs on another man’s head, filthy AB’s, they are not the saints of world rugby they try make themselves out to be.
15 Nov 2012, 08:29 am
@Te Rangatira-14:
its disgusting and pathetic really, TR.
i honestly dont know how new zealanders can feel good about themselves winning anything in rugby when they cant win it with guts fair and square. such cheap empty victories.
i know you are a kiwi and do apologise, but it has to be said.
15 Nov 2012, 08:30 am
@MacToogie-6:
hear farking hear.
15 Nov 2012, 08:36 am
mulberry bush anybody…?
15 Nov 2012, 08:36 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-12:
15 Nov 2012, 08:37 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-17:
the AB’s and their supporters are starting to remind ,me of the ANC, they can do what they like, but as soon as someone highlights their filthy ways they are RAYCEEEEEESTS!!! and then sweep those filthy ways under the carpet, because who is really gonna stop them from doing it, no one.
15 Nov 2012, 08:37 am
Disciplinary process to be reviewed after Adam Thomson given one-week ban for stamping
The International Rugby Board is to urgently review the disciplinary process which led to New Zealand flanker Adam Thomson escaping with just a one-week ban after being cited for a stamp on the head of Scotland flanker Alasdair Strokosch in the game between the countries at Murrayfield on Sunday.
With Thomson, who punched Strokosch first before attempting to clear a ball at the bottom of a ruck, having already been told by the All Blacks that he would be rested against Italy this week, the Highlanders flanker will effectively serve no ban.
Thomson’s lenient treatment by a Six Nations committee, who oversee disciplinary matters in the autumn internationals, has only antagonised those who claim that All Blacks receive preferential treatment in such cases.
Two years ago New Zealand hooker Keven Mealamu received a one-week ban for a headbutt on England’s Lewis Moody, an offence which usually earns a four-week ban.
In contrast, Australia’s lock Rob Simmons yesterday received a full eight-week ban from the same disciplinary committee for a tip tackle on France flanker Yannick Nyanga in the Wallabies’ 33-6 defeat at Stade de France on Saturday night. Simmons ban is for eight “active” weeks so he is not free to play until Feb 24.
The chairman of the Six Nations committee, Jean Noel Courand, insisted that Thomson’s foul play was at the lower end of the scale of IRB sanctions and that the original ban of two weeks was reduced to one on account of his good conduct at the hearing.
This unleashed a torrent of criticism on Twitter which IRB chief executive Brett Gosper felt compelled to respond to.
“The IRB will review this case as it is a match under our jurisdiction,” he said. “If we decide to take action we will make it public.”
Among those complaining on Twitter were coaches of underage teams attempting to teach legal rucking and former Gloucester centre Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu, who received a three-week ban last year for sarcastic post-match tweets he made to Saracens centre Owen Farrell after their Premiership club game.
“I got 3 weeks for sarcastic tweets. So had I just rucked Farrell’s head I would have got only a week? Its just so comical these days,” Fuimaono-Sapolu said.
15 Nov 2012, 08:44 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-16:
Kia ora Houston…..players get pulled up for unsavoury acts on the field all the time….don’t think their stupidity as individuals represents ones nation as a whole…also don’t look at the weekends victory over Scotland as a hollow one…
15 Nov 2012, 08:49 am
@MacToogie-20:
its pathetic and sad really.
no one like these people anymore and the damage they are doing to rugby as a game is huge.
it has to be stopped, end of.
15 Nov 2012, 08:50 am
Why are we surprised?
15 Nov 2012, 08:52 am
@Te Rangatira-22:
but the extent to which you organise your behaviour as a sporting nation is indicative of the extent to which you act as a whole.
as well the tacit and unwavering support given by the nz fans goes towards conditioning the cycle of propaganda and brainwashing by new zealanders of new zealanders.
15 Nov 2012, 08:54 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-23:
no one like these people anymore = no one likes these people anymore
15 Nov 2012, 08:56 am
@gunther-24: We ain’t. That’s how it goes. Everybody knows.
15 Nov 2012, 09:00 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-25:
You have a problem.
Seriously.
15 Nov 2012, 09:01 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-25:
the extent to which your sports administrators and gov organise your behaviour as a sporting nation is indicative.
15 Nov 2012, 09:03 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-25:
Ummm…..yeah…..can you repeat the question or is that answer please?…..sounds a wee bit like a Jim Jones sermon
15 Nov 2012, 09:04 am
@Hurricane-28:
yes, i do and something needs to be done about it.
thankfully the irb has finally, for once, come round to the fact that action needs to be taken. the game we all love is in danger and needs saving.
15 Nov 2012, 09:06 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-31:
So who are you blaming for the sentence?
Nothing to do with NZ.
Cry somewhere else, tool.
15 Nov 2012, 09:08 am
@Hurricane-32:
no, it has everything to do with new zealand you little man.
everything.
wake the fark up, sonny.
15 Nov 2012, 09:21 am
I don’t get how people from another country can go mad about the ramblings of people from another country on a site. Its like me going on a KKK blog and expecting them to be amazing and surpotive of black people.
15 Nov 2012, 09:28 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-29:
Far out Houston….where are you getting this stuff….Govt propoganda and the like…you certainly giving those tossers too much credit…..
15 Nov 2012, 09:36 am
@Te Rangatira-35:
no, its true TR and you better believe it.
15 Nov 2012, 09:38 am
I live in London so I get to meet people from all over the world. I’m constantly surprised by the New Zealanders. I’ve never met one I didn’t like. Their country is still a first world nation and has some spectacular nature. Their team is the best around maybe ever. I’m a firm bok supporter, but if I’m going to pick a fight, it won’t be with the Qiwis
15 Nov 2012, 09:39 am
Guys, chill out. Seriously, I mean, don’t you know, Adam’s just a top bloke, and he’s a staunch christian and family man and would never do anything like that. If he says he didn’t do it, he didn’t do it.
15 Nov 2012, 09:40 am
@Atreides-38:
exactly
15 Nov 2012, 09:41 am
@catchlightuk.com-37: I agree with you there and that’s where I differ from guys like Houston
But their “Untouchables” status in world rugby is just getting up everyone’s nose.
15 Nov 2012, 09:43 am
lets do a comparison
Thompson (clean record) trampling player’s head (preceded by a punch) – 1 week
Thorn (prior sanctions) tipp tackle leading to John Smit out for weeks – 1 week ban
Mealamu (clean record) headbutt on Hartley, contact made – 2 weeks ban
Carter (clean record) high tackle
Mealamu & Umaga (clean records) spear tackle on O’ Driscoll, dislocated shoulder and surgery – no sanction
Higginbottom (clean record) – touches McCaw with a knee – 4 weeks ban
Simmons (Clean Record) – Dump tackle – 14 weeks (minus 6 for record0
Etzebeth (Clean Record) motions head towards Sharp, no contact – 2 weeks ban
Fuimaono-Sapolu (prior sanction for dissent) sarcastic tweet – 3 week ban
the proof is there to see that AB players have the rub of the green when it comes to sanctions, any Kiwi fan who disputes that is as filthy as those players who got away with their deeds.
15 Nov 2012, 09:50 am
@MacToogie-41:
months Mactoogie, months.
john was out for six months and required surgery.
what about the one’s which dont even make it so far as a ‘drunken, confused denial of it ever happening’ by the officials involved?
like retallick’s spear?
or the kiwi props one game ban for a head high stiff arm tackle to the throat/windpipe in the super final?
15 Nov 2012, 09:52 am
@mactoogie 41
Effing ey brother, sick of the one way ticket stuff for “the untouchables”
15 Nov 2012, 09:56 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-42:
lol, yeah i was doing quick google searches, but i reckon my point is made in this regard, its disgusting how high and mighty the Kiwi’s make themselves out to be when somehow (who knows how) they actually just get away with things rather than being clean.
2 rules implemented because of AB dirty play
a) Spear Tackle banned after Brian O’Driscoll injury
b) taking up space in front of the ball at ruck time (attack and defense)
15 Nov 2012, 10:00 am
@MacToogie-41:
haha……..filthy by association…..as ordained by the unclean…..fark….whats the world coming to.
15 Nov 2012, 10:00 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLXVBEqAxGE
Late, high, swinging arm, player knocked unconscious and taken from the field -
NO CASE TO ANSWER?? Was that man in green an AB in disguise, or just too important to loose for a couple of games???? Now compare that to Thompsons foot tap and explain the difference!
15 Nov 2012, 10:01 am
@whatever-43:
scurry scurry……eat cheese….scurry scurry
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-42:
Thorn did not do the injury…its been acknowledged that he did the injury way after…. How can you do an injury that puts you out for 6 months yet still plays on…. stop making **** up.
15 Nov 2012, 10:04 am
I love this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyI1UQfT6K0
Sort of put things in place.
15 Nov 2012, 10:06 am
@MacToogie-44:
yip, agreed.
in fact i think its more than just two rules implemented because of ab dirty play.
15 Nov 2012, 10:06 am
@Te Rangatira-45:
im not suggesting we are clean mate, im saying the AB’s are just as filthy as everyone else, and for the Kiwi’s to suggest otherwise is disgusting.
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