Springbok lock Flip van der Merwe has been cited for alleged foul play during the victory over the Wallabies at Newlands on Saturday.
Van der Merwe is alleged to have contravened Law 10.4 (a) Punching or Striking when he made contact with Australian winger Joe Tomane in the 39th minute of the match in Cape Town.
The referee for the match, Jerome Garces, issued a Yellow Card for the incident.
Upon further review of the match footage the Citing Commissioner deemed in hi s opinion the incident had met the Red Card threshold for foul play.
The citing is to be considered in the first instance by SANZAR Duty Judicial Officer Nigel Hampton.
All SANZAR disciplinary matters are in the first instance referred to a Duty Judicial Officer hearing to provide the option of expediting the judicial process.
For a matter to be dispensed with at this hearing, the person appearing must plead guilty and accept the penalty offered by the DJO.
Big Flip to face the music (Red card level offence?)
Flip is always a liability in any game - his discipline is very poor at the best of times. He is in competition with Nonu and Retallick in the yellow and red card race. LOL
No loss - maybe Meyer would benefit fro him getting a ban - that would force him to change the present dysfunctional lock situation
Hakwa as usual asking the hard questions that people think but dare not speak.
What was the difference between Bismarcks elbow to the neck and Flips elbow?
Much of the same to me.... yet Bissie didn't get a red card for what he did.
Excellent question flash dakota.
Highlighting the inconsistensies in the process and showing how some sweet talking South African on the SANZAR board has influenced the result regarding Bismarks blatant elbow to the throat of Messam.
I demand an immediate investigation as there is obviously corruption being exposed here at the highest level.
Agree on 1 point, disagree on another...
- 1Agree = Inconsistencies need to be sorted out (globally, not just SANZAR). I agree that an amount of corruption seems to be present at the moment.
- Disagree = I don't think either offenses deserved red. From a mutual standpoint, in my opinion, I really don't think malicious intent was the aim. Punish them with a 1 match suspension at most, but don't send them off during a game.
I would only send off, for repeated infringements of a similar nature, or if there is absolutely no doubt that the intent was to hurt or injure.
Im really not a fan of sending off. I'd much rather suspend players for a match, a month or a year (depending on severity of the incident), but why rob the general public, both teams and the supporters, who have paid thousands of bucks to watch the game, of an equal contest.
Just my opinion, I am open to debate (but not insulted) if you disagree.
Greylings was the first one, Bismarks the second then VanDerMerve showing that this is how rugby players are taught to play in the South Africa.
The school curriculum looks something like this -
Period one :Stomping
Period Two : Biting and Hair Pulling
Morning break
Period three: Head butting
Period four : Dirty Elbow strike
Lunch
Period five: Eye gouging
Period six: Shoulder charge with minimum use of arms
Homework - Practice those innocent looks to use on the referee..
Only intent there was to hurt.
He should have got a jail term for that.
Non the less.
If u keen to debate the issue regarding the other 2 , I'm all open.
Shot
Flash
Yeah well when you're making any assesment it has to be made on multiple indicators.
How many elbows does it take before SA acknowledges they are serial offenders ?
Yet all we here is that they are victims and we hear stuff like the referee cost them the game instead of admitting there is a discipline problem they look for someone to blame.
Pathetic really.
ANd Meyer went public in saying that he won't tolerate crap like that. To his credit, we have never seen Greyling in the Bok squad again.
There is a real and well documented effort by Meyer, where is doing his best to clean up any off the ball nonsense.
Due to the nature of the game, there will always be some touch and go incidents, which need to be looked at and treated appropriately.
But to look at it from a neutral standpoint, there has been a big improvement of the Boks.
If you look at the SXV on the whole, I think the off the ball stuff has been pretty equal all round.
Brycy, do u live in SA or in NZ? Or somewhere else? Just asking.
I'm here at the centre of the rugby universe in South Auckland home to the famous Ranfurly shield. Also home to Super XV Champions the Mighty Chiefs .
This is from where rugby lessons are handed out to the whole world .
Even European Champions Toulon want us to provide them with a rugby lesson next year and we are more than happy to oblige.
Difficult to argue with that statement.
Now also ppears to also be home to the worst ref in RWC history.
Nah mate Andre Watson takes the cake from where i'm sitting most recently anyway.
...But there are a few other yarpies that are also in contention if you remember the ABs 1976 tour of SA and the tours before they introduced neutral refs to the game.
read previous comment closely my friend.
Regarding Watto, I'm not saying he was fabulous...
But at least he blew more hot than cold.
If it was red card offence WHY wasn't it issued on game day????????? The only advantage now goes to the nefarious cheating kiwis............... No wonder the kiwis jumping up and down about this.... Nonu should have gotten 8weeks for a lifting tackle this year and copped 3 - absolute disgrace and as much as Flip was a dog for the elbow to the jaw - no justice if hes cited v AIGs......
Anyway heard a good one this morning re Kiwi sailors:
Why do Kiwi sailors make the best lovers?
Because they stay on top for two weeks and still come second!!
Redsman thats quite flattering , it shows kiwis are great lovers with unparalleled stamina.
Not very good at this are you?
How about this one : Why did the Redsman cross the road ?
Coz he could'nt get his dick out of the chicken....
As the Citing Commissioner said, "It's a red card offence".
So that's 2 games running the Boks have got off with a yellow when a red was the correct punishment! What's going on here? I smell a rat and a distinct favouring of the Boks by the whimpy refs!!
When will all this bias towards the Boks stop and the rest of the rugby world get a fair go I ask??????
Eye gouging has to be punished to the max. To me it is one of the worst forms of dirty play.
I don't like it when Brycy and Hakwa make out that South Africa 'have someone's ear on the IRB board' but in retrospect New Zealand are often the lucky ones that get away with a lot. I'm not saying this is the reason why we lose to you, it's not our performance on the day is the reason.


