Simmons' ban cut
Nov 28,2012
Wallabies lock Rob Simmons' eight week suspension has been cut to five weeks on appeal but he'll still miss Saturday's season-ending Test against Wales in Cardiff.
An IRB appeal hearing in Bristol on Tuesday reduced the ban Simmons received for a lifting tackle on French player Yannick Nyanga in Australia's European tour-opening 33-6 defeat in Paris on November 10.
He has since missed the Tests against England and Italy over the past two weekends.
A statement issued by the Six Nations Committee, which deals with disciplinary matters on behalf of the IRB during the European autumn internationals, said the appeal committee had determined Simmons' offence merited a mid-range penalty rather than a top end one as the judicial officer originally found.
"After applying aggravating and mitigating factors, the appeal committee imposed a reduced sanction of five weeks," the statement added.
"Therefore the player will be free to play from February 4, 2013."
As was the case with the original ban, the reduced punishment takes account of the close season inactivity after the end of Australia's tour when Williams and his Wallaby team-mates are not scheduled to play.
Nov 28, 2012 at 10:07:33
Must be a corrupt citing commissioner desperate to mitigate the length of the original sanction. Saffas and Wobblies appear to appear to operate as a law unto themselved and are often able to circumvent the litigious processes that consistently hobble N Z players. Oh but that's right. The wobbly boks are the citing commissioners complicit stooge ( insert sarcastic snigger here)
Nov 28, 2012 at 11:28:04
You try so hard to be provocative but in the end you just another dickhead looking for attention...fuckwit
Nov 28, 2012 at 13:11:43
Blah blah blah its the vacuuous " kill the nuke" prat trying his very best to appear morally supreme (pfffft)Once again the self deluded moral policeman thinks himself superior to his foreign counterparts but your just gutter scum trying to dress up as an ersatz quasi legible rugby guru. Lol. Bro. Your shit stinks worse than any of your cerebrally challenged compatriots but what's most troublesome is you're complete, obstinate oblivion to your own inadequacies as an impartial commentator. Lols. Off your high horse and back into your countries typhus infected open sewers Well the award for prize prat 3 years runniin goes to our forums resident redneck ......one eyed gweenie. Happy to manufacture and capatise on AB discrepancies but blindly obliviously to the food raging, eye gouging, spear taking, ear biting , swing arm antics and criminal al head butting of his rugby heros/zeros.
Oh but that right. Sagggas have that perennial excuse each year where they blame poor refs, injury tolls, pro nz conspiracies and all that other lunacy to help palliate the gut wrent hing trauma of rug y mediocroty. funny now the advent of neutral refs and the redundancies of sa" s infamous browser one referees has seen the "might bok( pffgggt!) fall from grace and lose more games than I care to mention. The boks are. Alaska team. Always have always will be. Z.
Nov 29, 2012 at 08:48:26
Whateva tickles your fancy wanker
Nov 29, 2012 at 08:50:21
Definitely a moffie from da Kaap, hahaha...