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Mapimpi got MOTM. I thought Am might get it instead.

Other news, seems Duane Vermeulen has joined the Bok camp.

How is Sinckler the only citing out of that match? First I've heard of the alleged biting incident.

That's just bizarre.

Sinckler is the only player to be cited according to Murray Kinsella.

The rugby disciplinary system has completely lost its nerve. It's unfit for purpose.

How would you change it?

How teams cite? who sits on discipline group to decide punishments...

Rugby just seems incapable of sticking with any policy to make the game safer.

Like, two years ago, contact with the head was being punished mercilessly (correctly). Now the default is to look for as many mitigating factors as possible and only the most blatant head-shots are getting a red. Maybe they went overboard initially but I thought that was a good thing, they needed to stick with it so that players got the message. Instead we've been slowing sliding back to the old ways. Like, Bundee Aki knocked Vunipola out cold with a head shot, he has previous, and he only gets one week more than the absolute minimum sanction? (That's not a dig at aki, just the first example that came to mind).

When you see Faf de Klerk not even being penalised for his high shot on Murray on Saturday, you wonder what the hell has gone wrong. Likewise Kolbe only getting yellow and not cited? Like, every other incident of that type has been a red for the last three or four years. And Kolbe's head-clash on Saturday too, no action even though he made no attempt to avoid it, it's ridiculous.

Since Sinckler has been cited they must have pretty clear evidence of biting, and I hope he gets a lengthy ban for it - but it's mad that nothing else was deemed worthy of a hearing.

I thought yellow was the fair call for Kolbe due to how Murray landed. If it had been red, I would have had no problem with it.

I think both captains should have been yellow carded for the carry on afterwards though. There was nothing clear in melee that warranted a card. Just lots of pushing and shoving and tough guy talk. Would love to see a ref say I warned you both about this earlier, you need to control your players. You didn't so you both sit down for 10 minutes.

He and Curry technically should've got yellows for being the flash point for the schmozzle that the ref had said earlier

Next one of these yellows all round and he technically should've got a red that way

I'm still baffled how Kolbe got away with the head clash on Curry.

Some have described it as a "rugby incident", but surely that's a cop out. I wonder if the fact that Kolbe came out second best saved him.

The one replay angle we saw of De Klerk's hit on Murray suggests it may have been at worst a penalty for a no wrap tackle, but given the intense scrutiny some incidents get I'd like to see have another angle to know for sure whether contact was made with Murray's head.

Yeah I think the ref should have carded guys from both teams for the crap after the Kolbe incident. It would have been a ballsy call and not one many refs would make. I could see Owen's doing it and maybe Barnes. Can't think of many others that would have the guts to make that call.