Oghre cited

[Rossm]

Deliberate poke to the eye and a mouthful to the ref = 2 weeks. This equals 3. Something is wrong with that.

Damn right.

[Neils]

Deliberate poke to the eye and a mouthful to the ref = 2 weeks. This equals 3. Something is wrong with that.

Damn right.

More than damn right!

[Rossm]

Bobby Bridge reports:

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/rugby/gabriel-oghre-wasps-northampton-saints-21843543

[Horusthewasp]

Deliberate poke to the eye and a mouthful to the ref = 2 weeks. This equals 3. Something is wrong with that.

Damn right.

More than damn right!

+3

Ridiculous

[NellyWellyWaspy]

How is Cruise getting on with his return to play? Selection for hooker and replacement will be interesting this week.

He will not be available this week. Either Eckersley is on the bench (and likely plays), or we find someone to bring in.

Maybe Ash could come back to bump his appearances up to 199?

[ardenwasp]

How is Cruise getting on with his return to play? Selection for hooker and replacement will be interesting this week.

He will not be available this week. Either Eckersley is on the bench (and likely plays), or we find someone to bring in.

Maybe Ash could come back to bump his appearances up to 199?

Would love that, but I think he'll be playing at Brickfields in Plymouth this Saturday, for Moseley.

[Nigel Med]

Am I the only person who is a little surprised that the report glosses over the fact that a Premiership referee, an experienced one at that, taking charge of his 100th match- took a close look at the video footage, considered what had taken place and made a decision to award a yellow card. I'm amazed that Maxwell Keys wasn't consulted, this report is firmly stating that he got it wrong. Not a spur of the moment decision, he took his time, reviewed the incident and then apparently made the wrong decision. That's pretty damming for a referee that the RFU saw fit to appoint to the Premiership final the year before last!

I know that many on here accuse him of making the wrong decisions on many occasions when he's been in charge of our matches but I thought he was the RFU golden boy.

[Bloke in North Dorset]

I don’t have a problem with the outcome, but as a matter of principle I’m against the Citing Officer having the ability to cite players when the referee has had had an opportunity to look at the replays and discuss it with TV official and the assistant referees.

This undermines referee’s authority and now they’ll be wondering if the Citing Officer will overrule them. Citing should be for missed foul play only, it should be up to the referee’s management team to decide if a punishment wasn’t sufficient and take that up with the ref, behind closed doors.     

[NellyWellyWaspy]

I don’t have a problem with the outcome, but as a matter of principle I’m against the Citing Officer having the ability to cite players when the referee has had had an opportunity to look at the replays and discuss it with TV official and the assistant referees.

This undermines referee’s authority and now they’ll be wondering if the Citing Officer will overrule them. Citing should be for missed foul play only, it should be up to the referee’s management team to decide if a punishment wasn’t sufficient and take that up with the ref, behind closed doors.   

There needs to be an option for the ref to refer their own decisions, after the match. CMK may have done just that, to ask the Citing Officer to do that. You are assuming he didn't, but he might have. You are assuming no ref would do that, but maybe they do.

[JonnyD]

Still think this is very harsh. CMK has all the angles and advice but has therefore made an incorrect decision which Saints fans will think has cost them. What are the consequences for CMK - 3 match ban for him too?

[matelot22]

Deliberate poke to the eye and a mouthful to the ref = 2 weeks. This equals 3. Something is wrong with that.

Big +1......

[Neils]

Deliberate poke to the eye and a mouthful to the ref = 2 weeks. This equals 3. Something is wrong with that.

Big +1......

What puzzles me is that the "Authorities" can't see the disparity in some of the decisions put out.

[Raggs]

There's a behavioural aspect to deal with though. Everyone views gouging as awful, and it very rarely happens deliberately.

Headknocks are extremely important to reduce, which is why we have such harsh punishments for even seemingly innocuous hits such as Gaby's.