SARACENS AND ENGLAND wing Chris Ashton has been cited for allegedly making contact with the eye area of Ulster centre Luke Marshall.
Under Law 10.4 (M), Ashton could be hit with a ban anywhere from 12 weeks (low end entry point) if found guilty of the offence.
The prolific try-scorer was cited by French commissioner Yves Thieffine for making contact with Marshall’s eyes in the 16th minute of Ulster’s 33 – 17 defeat away to the Premiership side.
In a busy week for the disciplinary committee, a complaint was also received against Glasgow Warriors’ Ryan Wilson.
Match citing commissioner Jeff Mark alleges that Wilson grabbed the testicles of Northampton scrum-half Lee Dickson in the 25th minute of the Saints win over Warriors.
The offence also comes under Law 10.4 (m) – ‘acts contrary to good sportsmanship’ – and carries a low end sanction of a 12 week ban rising to a top end offence of between 24 weeks and four years.
Wilson’s team-mate will join him in London for Wednesday’s disciplinary hearings, the lock was yellow carded for a 74th minute punch of Saints hooker Mikey Haywood and has been cited under Law 10.4 (a).
And last, but not least of this week’s Champions Cup bad boys is Clermont’s Viktor Koleishvili. Citing commissioner has passed the flanker’s name on for a disciplinary hearing to take place in Paris tomorrow.
Koleishvili was warned by referee Wayne Barnes after he shoved the official to move him out of his way during the away defeat to Ospreys.
‘Abuse of match officials’ also comes under Law 10.4 (m), but World Rugby’s sanctions range from a low end of 24 weeks to a top end of 96 weeks to life.
Well done. Great Cause
Could have come first if he didn’t stop to take the bloody selfie….Great man. Great cause. Lovely story.
Selfie mehole. Soon as the picture was taken, he hopped on a sleigh with 12 huskies pulling him along, and cracked open a bottle of powers
The only reason he didn’t win was because he spent the first 3 days going in the wrong direction.
Wow! There really are some fantastic human beings around! And he is one!!
What a lazy fecker.
SECOND?
Fair play to him, great cause and a great performance to match
I know, whats with the article he didn’t even win like?
Hadn’t have slept those 6 hours he might have won lazy fecker. Congratulations though that’s some achievement.
And the race is from where to where?
Exactly! Any chance of including what’s actually involved in the race?
As his medal says “finisher” coz most people can’t finish the toughest course in the world (probably) And that little boy will smile ear to ear after he recovers Fair fox ta ya man fair fox ta ya.
Respect …. Wow ….. Well done
Cmon the tribesmen
North to Alaska/Johhny Horton
Sam crossed the majestic mountains (mush)
To the valleys far below (mush)
He talked to his team of huskies (mush)
As he mushed on through the snow (mush)
With the northern lights a-runnin’ wild (mush)
In the land of the midnight sun (mush)
Yes, Sam McCord was a mighty man (mush)
In the year of nineteen-one (mush)
………And so is Gavan Hannigan a Mighty Man too.Well done Gavan!
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
(Robert Service poem).
@Pat Gorman…….
The Spell of the Yukon
I wanted the gold, and I sought it, I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
Was it famine or scurvy — I fought it; I hurled my youth into a grave.
I wanted the gold, and I got it — Came out with a fortune last fall, —
Yet somehow life’s not what I thought it, And somehow the gold isn’t all.
No! There’s the land. (Have you seen it?) It’s the cussedest land that I know,
From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it To the deep, deathlike valleys below.
Some say God was tired when He made it; Some say it’s a fine land to shun;
Maybe; but there’s some as would trade it For no land on earth — and I’m one.
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-A Great Week-end to You Pat Gorman.
Who came third?
Great cause but to come second should be ashamed of himself
Phenomenal performance!! Tough race to finish let alone finish 2nd, well done
Superb Gavin , I suppose they’ll expect you to win the all Ireland for Galway now.
Fair dues man :)
If your not first your last!! Great achievement.while fitness is important its the will and desire to keep going that is most impressive,well done.
Well done. Inspirational.
Amazing stuff.. but yes we need more info please !
Some achievement. . Well done. .
Where in galway is he from?
He came second out of 2
people were still finishing 3 days after he finished!, more detail about this gruelling event is needed in the article.
The Yukon!
The land of the Sourdough.
One of the toughest places on earth.
Recommended Good Read:
Micí Mac Gabhann’s “Rotha Mór an tSaoil”.
That procedure not available here in Nirvana, no?