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Date set for Jonathan Danty to learn Six Nations fate after red card

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France centre Jonathan Danty will face a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday following his red card against Italy on Sunday in the Guinness Six Nations.

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The 31-year-old was yellow carded by referee Christophe Ridley in the dying seconds of the first half in Lille for a dangerous tackle on centre Juan Ignacio Brex, with the decision being sent to the bunker review system.

Ben Whitehouse upgraded the tackle to a red card, and France played the second 40 with 14 players as they held on for a 13-13 draw.

Danty has now been cited for foul play contrary to Law 9.13: “A player must not tackle an opponent early, late or dangerously. Dangerous tackling includes, but is not limited to, tackling or attempting to tackle an opponent above the line of the shoulders even if the tackle starts below the line of the shoulders.”

The Frenchman will attend the hearing via video conference before an independent judicial committee consisting of Jennifer Donovan – Chairman (Ireland), joined by former internationals Stefan Terblanche (South Africa) and Leon Lloyd (England).

Fabien Galthie’s side already entered the match with an extensive list of absentees due to injury or suspension. To make matters worse, they lost fly-half Matthieu Jalibert a few minutes before to a knee injury, so a potential ban for Danty will not help France’s cause heading into the final two rounds of the Championship.

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sorrel 47 minutes ago
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The whole thing was absolutely delightful from a scrummaging perspective. Both teams were 100% certain they could just push the other team off the ball and both teams scrummed like it. I love the dark arts tactical battles, but there’s something really refreshing about a game where both the teams in the pushing contest just want to push. But, yeah, South Africa were the clear winners of that part of the game.


Scrums went as follows in the first game (I’m going from a handy dandy compilation video I made from screen recordings so I don’t have exact ref calls)

1. Canadian feed - Reset. On second feed, Canada gets the ball away, but South African scrum pushes into them

2. South African feed - South Africa gets the ball away clean

3. Canadian feed - Free kick to South Africa

4. South African feed - South Africa pulls the ball forward in the scrum a few meters, gets advantage, and gets the ball away clean

5. Canadian feed - Canada gets the ball away clean.

6. South African feed - South Africa push Canada backwards, but give away a penalty

7. South African feed - South Africa pulls the ball forward in the scrum maybe 10ish meters, gets advantage, and gets the ball away clean

8. South African feed - Free kick to Canada

9. South African feed - South Africa gets the ball away clean

10. South African feed - South Africa makes meters in the scrum and gets the ball away clean

11. South African feed - Reset. On second feed, South Africa makes meters in the scrum, gets advantage, and gets the ball away clean

12. Canadian feed - South Africa push them backwards, but give away a penalty

13. Canadian feed - 75 minutes into the game, Canada pulls the ball forward at the scrum and get advantage


I haven’t done such thorough analysis for the second test, but if you enjoy scrumming at all, you should really watch these games. They’re the sort of games where you look forwards to knock ons because the scrums are so good.

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