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France's Peato Mauvaka cited for yellow-carded Ben White incident
By Liam Heagney
The 2025 Guinness Six Nations isn’t over for Peato Mauvaka as the France hooker has been summoned to attend a disciplinary hearing this Thursday following his yellow-carded incident with Scotland’s Ben White.
There were 20 minutes played at the Stade de France last Saturday night when the French front-rower was sin-binned for foul play against the Scottish scrum-half. The incident sparked much debate, with plenty of fans feeling that Mauvaka should have been red-carded for leading with his head in the off the ball collision.
A Six Nations statement read: “France No2 Peato Mauvaka will attend an independent disciplinary hearing after he was cited for an act of foul play contrary to law 9.12 (A player must not…. strike with any part of the arm, shoulder, head or knee(s)) in the Guinness Six Nations match between France and Scotland on Saturday, March 15.
“The player will attend the hearing via video conference before an independent disciplinary committee consisting of Jennifer Donovan (chair, Ireland), with the other two disciplinary committee members to be confirmed in due course. The hearing will take place on Thursday, March 20, at 10am (GMT).”
France went on to win last Saturday’s round five match 35-16 to clinch the 2025 championship title. They finished one point ahead of England on the table and two clear of Ireland, the 2023 and 2024 back-to-back champions.
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