ANDREW HORE HAS received a five week ban for his forearm smash on Bradley Davies.
The All Black hooker was cited for a meaty blow after his side’s 33-10 win over Wales at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday.
Hore was looking to join a defensive ruck and took exception to the Welsh lock ambling in his path.
The suspension means Hore will miss the All Blacks’ final autumn Test against England this weekend.
The New Zealand and Hurricanes player would have faced an eight-week ban for a ‘top end’ entry level offence but the sentence was reduced by three weeks.
The reduction, according to officials, was for for Hore’s ‘acceptance of guilt, genuine remorse, exemplary disciplinary record and his conduct during the hearing’.
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New Zealand rugby correspondent Mark Reason, reporting for The Dominion Post, condemned the All Black management, including head coach Steve Hansen, for not coming out with an apology as it awaited news on the hooker’s hearing.
Reason commented, “We should be thankful that Hansen is no longer a policeman.
“He would have presumably let Charles Manson off with a caution.”
Only 5 weeks, what a joke. IRB starting to make the GAA disciplinary process look good. Hard to like the All Blacks when they continually resort to this type of thuggery.
Continually?
2011 RWC Final v France, McCaw’s knee “straying” into French out-halves face
2005 1st Test v Lions – The Assassination attempt on BOD
2012 on this tour, already have had a player banned for stamping
There are plenty of more examples….
They are the best team in the world, no doubting that. Just that their “win at all costs” mentality is hard to stomach sometimes……
or that referees appear to turn a blind eye to onfield infringements, particularly McCaw at ruck time, while other teams get pinged. Rwc final France should have had a penalty close to the end which would have given them a shot at the posts and a chance of victory but Joubert bottled it.
Coward!
Second time on this tour.