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Agustin Creevy banned until the new year
By Josh Raisey
London Irish will be without hooker Agustin Creevy for their trip to South Africa this weekend after he was handed a four week ban.
The Exiles face the reigning United Rugby Championship winners the Stormers this Saturday at the Cape Town Stadium, but will now do so without one of their seasoned internationals.
The Argentine was red carded by referee Andrea Piardi in the first-half of the opening match of the Heineken Champions Cup on Friday against Top 14 champions Montpellier for a high tackle on Anthony Bouthier. Having made clear contact with the head of the Frenchman with almost no effort to wrap his arms, there was no debate as to whether it was a red card or not and a ban was expected.
The 37-yer-old was subsequently banned for six weeks by an EPCR disciplinary panel for contravening Law 9.13: "A player must not tackle an opponent dangerously.
"Under World Rugby’s Sanctions for Foul Play, Law 9.13 relating to dangerous tackling carries the following sanction entry points - Low End: 2 weeks; Mid-range: 6 weeks; Top end: 10 to 52 weeks."
The tackle was deemed a midrange offence, which carries a six week ban, but that was reduced by two weeks. However, it was not reduced by the full 50 percent due to Creevy's poor recent disciplinary record.
That means the hooker will miss the trip to Cape Town this weekend after the Exiles' 32-27 loss to Montpellier at the Gtech Community Stadium. He will also miss Gallagher Premiership matches against top of the table Saracens and Gloucester, as well as a Premiership Rugby Cup match against Bath in the new year. Should he successfully complete a World Rugby Coaching Intervention, he will be available to play against Bath.
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LOL thats the same mentality the French saying about the Top 14. Why change their ridiculous comp if its performing well with investors?
There is always better JWH.
It depends really what you want out of Super Rugby and NPC. Currently Super Rugby fills both niche’s, it has the up and commers as well as the stars performing at the top. Reducing further obviously improves further on what has been the reason everybody is enjoying this season.
There is definitely a question of balance and what going further that way removes. But theres a few reasons. What coaches are telling us is it is also a struggle to find the talent to fill out a strong SR side. There is talk of increasing financial constraints. Currently there is a lopsided (random) amount of derby home and away match ups in each conference, so going 5v5 instead of 6v6 may mean we have a full derby round for each conference (currently I think they play just 3 teams twice), or even squeeze in a full dbl round comp. Going a larger number of teams means they need to go much larger to fairer league setup.
But they need to add or remove JWH, one or the other, and I was merely pointing out that adding, like you’re suggestion, is likely going to introduce just what we all (or at least what the person I was replying to was saying) think the comp has been remedied of, having a weak team. The 5v5 I referenced was 3 Aus teams, with the other two filling the landscape their, and 5 here. That’s what NZR wanted to kick off for the COVID year but ARU threw a hissy fit. If going to 10 is the right thing to do maybe it’s an NZ team that needs to be dropped, so Moana would remain here and Drua continue to be with the aussies, thats the other possible 5 v 5 setup (which would just be 10 if they found a way for all to play even games).
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