Leo Cullen doesn’t need telling that Sam Prendergast needs serious tackle mentoring
Then, out of the blue, came some nasty foul play with the culprit was Stade’s Ryan Chapuis. Completely ignoring the ball, he targeted Munster’s Shane Daly. He certainly didn’t shoot and miss. It was a gratuitous, cheap, late shot involving head contact. It left a sickened fullback crumpled on the floor. Eventually, referee Luke Pearce studied the screen. Astonishingly, he saw little to complain about, and awarded only a penalty – an extremely poor call.
Let’s look at the cards in a bit more detail. The first was yellow, copped by Munster’s Alex Nankivell, who was the luckiest boy in Limerick that Pearce did not go the full monty for his hit on Lucas Peyresblanques – deeming that he was dropping was one hell of a stretch. It looked a lot more like he was bracing himself for the collision. Nankivell needs to be aware that a repeat of this tackle is very unlikely to be treated so kindly.
When Craig Casey was lifted, turned over and dropped to the ground, he did not land on his head. There was no real danger to him, it was quite a soft landing in fact. This red card was also too severe, the usual mitigation again went missing. A long time ago I lost the argument that this type of tackle should always “see” red, irrespective of how the player lands. I doubt that World Rugby have changed the docket.
When he realised his mistake, the referee insisted that the penalty was against Crowley, fair enough I suppose. He was fortunate to have the second offence in his pocket. Putting things as politely as I can, Pearce will have better days. He will need to – altering his non-stop verbals would be a good place to start., fortunately two early cards were of the yellow variety.
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