A complete joke in my opinion. The John Hayes ban has been reduced form 6 weeks to 5 weeks by the Irish appeal committee.

Now the good news is that the time period covered, November 7th – 14th, has no games for Munster or Ireland that he is missing. the bad news is that it should already be more, not reduced.

Good Behaviour

Now I understand that John Hayes has had a wonderful disciplinary record until now… and that’s great. But when you intentionally stamp on someones face I think you kind of lose all claims of being a nice guy. And I do believe he intentionally stamped on someones face.

But guess what happens? The committee find that the suitable ban is to expire just before the Autumn Internationals. who would have guessed it? Aside from everyone who has watched the joke that has become rugby’s sanctions anyway.

Aside from Dean Richards ban for bloodgate (which was a tad harsh in my opinion) rugby has made itself a laughing stock with its bans. 8 weeks for shoving your fingers in someones eye, 6 (now 5) weeks for stamping down hard on someoens face.

Seems to me that we aren’t trying to deter foul play, we’re just trying to make sure people see we are doing something before rushing our star names back into action when they are needed. Rugby is facing a massive crisis of public relations, and yet we keep shooting ourselves in a foot.

This ban is a complete joke as far as I am concerned.

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