CIAN HEALY IS in the clear to line out for Leinster in their Champions Cup opener against Racing 92 this weekend.
The Ireland international prop was sent off after 20 minutes of last Saturday’s URC victory over Ulster for a tackle on hooker Tom Stewart which left both bloodied by the head-on-head contact.
Healy did lower his height for the tackle and a URC disciplinary panel has ruled there was sufficient mitigation to lower Healy’s penalty to a yellow card offence.
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A URC statement read: “After an act of foul play against Ulster player No 2 (Tom Stewart), referee Christophe Ridley showed the player a red card in the 20th minute of the game under Law 9.13 – A player must not tackle an opponent early, late or dangerously. Dangerous tackling includes, but is not limited to, tackling or attempting to tackle an opponent above the line of the shoulders even if the tackle starts below the line of the shoulders.
“Upon review of the incident, the panel overseeing the disciplinary process – Robert Milligan KC (Chair, Scotland), Nigel Williams (Wales), Simon Thomas (Wales) – deemed that there was sufficient mitigating factors to reduce the red card to a yellow card. Therefore, the red card was not upheld and the player can return to play effective immediately.”
you could say the game was put on “paws” while the feline made its way to the sideline!
— sorry!
I think it was Trap who let the cat out of the sack…
Lucky that pussy wasn’t at Old Trafford. With Rooney and Giggs around, she’d definitely be f****d.
The cat was interviewed later on sky sports and claimed he just left his seat to get a hotdog and jumped over the wrong fence.
He was running away from Kennel Dog-leash
Liverpools number 1 supPAWter. I’ll red thumb myself for that!
Anfield obviously has a vermin problem
But cats and Dirks dispose of that issue!
He’s lucky he wasn’t a black cat with luis Suarez sitting on the bench. Could have gotten out of hand.. ;)
Opposition to Ryanair spreads to the animal kingdom . . .
The cat was just looking for his beachball
He literally covered every blade of grass and had the defense in sixes and sevens. He could have had a hat trick but he left his shooting boots in the dressing room. Liverpool are not a team to pussyfoot around.
The cat was later interviewed on Sky Sports and calmed he just left his seat to get a hotdog and must have jumped the wrong fence.
Heard you the first time.
Unfortunately.
Someone told him it was a milk cup game
In 1 minute on the pitch he ran past more players than Downing has all season !