Marky Facing a Ban : Tue Jun 27, 2017 5:48 pm  

Grade C so 2-3 games resulting from the Toulouse game. Dangerous contact in the tackle. Should start with Sunday's game.

Re: Marky Facing a Ban : Tue Jun 27, 2017 6:09 pm  

Who is Marky?

Re: Marky Facing a Ban : Tue Jun 27, 2017 10:02 pm  

wire-quin wrote:

Who is Marky?

I'm assuming Mark Ioane.

Re: Marky Facing a Ban : Wed Jun 28, 2017 8:49 am  

Shame, he's a good player.

Also, I do like his Mrs shouting out encouragement from the sidelines, and having the odd comment on the ref as well.

Re: Marky Facing a Ban : Wed Jun 28, 2017 9:03 am  

Mark faces a two to three match ban, yet for Anthony Marion, sin bin for biting is seen as sufficient as video evidence inconclusive and he did not appear to act in an aggressive manner. Non aggressive biting on a rugby pitch, now that must be a first.

Re: Marky Facing a Ban : Wed Jun 28, 2017 10:19 am  

Bosty I think inconclusive is the word you should be focusing on??

Re: Marky Facing a Ban : Wed Jun 28, 2017 1:41 pm  

Surely if spoken about with the ref immediately after the incident there would have been teeth marks which the ref could have used as evidence. Suppose Mark will get two game ban to match Harrison - the only people to be treated this way if you look back at the results of all disciplinaries this season.

Re: Marky Facing a Ban : Wed Jun 28, 2017 2:02 pm  

Quick question for you on that! Player approaches you with bite mark, how do you identify which player bit him? If you don't see it there is nothing you can do about it. If the video does not show any evidence you cannot do anything about it after the event.
And true story, no jesting here I saw a player bite his own arm, hard enough to leave a mark and then approached me claiming another player bit him!

Re: Marky Facing a Ban : Wed Jun 28, 2017 2:24 pm  

It was in fact the touch judge who called the biting incident, he stopped play and having spoken with the referee Marion was sent to the sin bin.
TV evidence pretty much useless in this case as the cameras were all on the other side of the pitch and the offence occurred on the blind side anyway.

Re: Marky Facing a Ban : Wed Jun 28, 2017 3:20 pm  

If it was seen by the TJ then action can be taken and in this case was. As the follow up discipline process I presume requires further evidence if the video if it's not there then there us not a lot more they can do