KEITH EARLS WILL face an independent disciplinary committee in London tomorrow, following his red card against Glasgow in Saturday’s Champions Cup clash at Thomond Park.
The Ireland international will be hoping to escape a ban, particularly with a Test against the All Blacks in Chicago now just two weekends away.
However, suspensions for dangerous tackling carry a low-end entry point of four weeks, meaning Earls will go into tomorrow’s hearing with some concern.
Earls was red-carded by referee Jérôme Garcès in the 19th minute of Munster’s win over Glasgow for a dangerous tackle on Fraser Brown.
EPCR has confirmed that the incident will be considered at an independent disciplinary hearing in London tomorrow, with Mike Hamlin [England] Roddy Dunlop QC [Scotland] and Andrea Caranci [Italy] appointed to the committee.
Earls’ offence falls under Law 10.4 (j), which relates to dangerous tackling – “Lifting a player from the ground and either dropping or driving that player’s head and/or upper body into the ground while the player’s feet are off the ground.”
The low-end suspension for such an offence is four weeks, with the mid-range entry point standing at eight weeks and the top-end ban being 12 to 52 weeks.
Meanwhile, Zebre hooker Oliviero Fabiani faces his own disciplinary hearing tomorrow, after a red card for a biting offence in last weekend’s meeting with Connacht.
Law 10.4 (m), for acts contrary to good sportsmanship, carries the threat of a top-end suspension of 24 to 208 weeks.
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He should have called ‘his dad’ before the Poland game to explain all this. Because yet again in the analysis Dunphy went for the most likely path to criticising the manager instead of listening to other opinion.
Anyway feck it, love Wes, Dunphy is good craic too. Come on Ireland!!!
So both the manager and the player have said it but the Dunph told us all Wes was fit last time and will tell the nation tonight that O’Neill doesn’t trust him…any chance of any research being done at all? Any? Bueller?
Dunphy is the biggest spoofer around. He told us last season that Gareth bale was definitely returning to the premier league because of what he heard from ‘reliable’ source Marca.
Bueller?