CASTRES NUMBER EIGHT Maama Vaipulu will be available for the next round of Heineken Champions Cup fixtures after a disciplinary committee today gave him a six-week suspension.
Vaipulu was sent off by referee John Lacey and cited for a first-half shoulder (Law 9.12) to the chin of Luke Cowan-Dickie during Castres’ home win over Exeter Chiefs.
The disciplinary panel, chaired by Ireland’s Jennifer Donovan, determined that the offence warranted a top-end entry-point sanction and an initial 10-week suspension was selected by the committee before mitigating factors were considered.
Considering the back row’s guilty plea and an early expression of remorse, the committee reduced the ban by four weeks. The six-week imposed ban leaves the four-cap Tongan international free to play from Monday 3 December, Munster host Castres in Thomond Park on Sunday 9 December.
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The’ll look forward to the game from the stands. Haha I love it.
@Chris Mc: you’d well believe it too
Interesting point made by Schmidt about Madigan. It proves that Carbery had no other option than to move. Schmidt wasn’t letting the same thing happen in 2019 if/when Sexton gets injured.
Does the name on his training vest give a clue to his future