Springboks hooker Bismarck du Plessis has had the red card he received in the Rugby Championship loss to the All Blacks struck from his disciplinary record.
Du Plessis was sent off after being shown a second yellow card early in the second half of their 29-15 loss to New Zealand in Auckland on Saturday.
A Sanzar judicial hearing found that the first of those yellow cards was wrongly issued.
French referee Romain Poite sent du Plessis to the sinbin for his tackle on All Blacks first five-eighth Dan Carter in the 17th minute.
After hearing submissions, judicial officer Terry Willis of Australia ruled the tackle was within the laws of the game and removed the red card from the record of du Plessis.
No further sanction was imposed on the hooker, although the second yellow card, for an elbow to the throat of loose forward Liam Messam, remains on his record for the remainder of The Rugby Championship.
On Monday the International Rugby Board stated that Poite was wrong to issue the first yellow card and that the referee had recognised his mistake.
petersa
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You couldn't smash the Boks being one man up but you think you could have if it was equal numbers for 80 minutes.........yes Einstein that's 'logical'.Thank goodness majority of All Black fans are not like you.
Trev from the bush
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I would love to hear the comments if that was McCaw tackling Cooper and putting him out for 6 weeks.
Jerry
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And you're basing that on what, Rob? Care to provide any other examples of tackles on Dan Carter being punished disproportionately?
Hurl
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The thing is DJW, everyone does notice. Nonu's picked up more yellow cards than anyone else I know
Steve.h
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Amazing in just a sentence you managed to find the solution to 350 years enslavement, genocide, war, discrimination, social and economic inequality. I think you should rather just crawl into the hole you came from.
Magic sponge
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BS
Geoff Brisbane
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So did Carter complain nope so l guess he got over it then. Great players always do it is the fans that are the problem
ohtani's jacket
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The All Blacks only needed four tries to get a bonus point, who cares how much the margin was by? And how come none of you Boks fans are lamenting how the first Argentina/South Africa test was ruined as spectacle?
Chan Wee
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" I saw a sugestion that a ref check in with all 3 other refs before giving a yellow – i like that ideas – too much of an impact if you get ti wrong. " so silly. how many things are the 3 people supposed to keep an eye on at the same time ? the best example of sillyness of this sugestion was seen in the OZ v Arg match. Argies were 3m from the OZ try line , right in front of the sticks. and at the ruck Fardy pushed the ball back in plain view of TV audience. neither the ref nor the touchies said a word so OZ now have a famous win. The best person to view and decide of any activity is the TMO, PROVIDED the necessary angles are covered by cameras. The simple logic is he has the facility of slomo and replay. thus he can focus on all the activity going from point to point or player to player. for example after the DC tackle FLOW ran into the tackle/ruck with a raised knee. not sure who he hit but this caused Nonu to wrestle him and that is how the fracs broke out. after that it was free for all. what is required is to the ref to consult the tmo without conditions. in Poite's case he told Ayub "i have already made up my mind about the tackle" or something to that effect. that was the folly. He shud have let Ayub decide and recommend action. in fact this is what Poite did in the elbow issue. he asked ayub if there is foul play and what is ur recommendation . Ayub said yellow.
Chan Wee
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Not possible is it? DC will not play for 6 weeks. And maybe Mccaw will be fit by then.
Robo
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How about Sanzar remove Poite from the records?
DJW
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I'm not South African..
Rob G.
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It's all well and good removing it from his record but it makes no difference to the game which was ruined. The ABs once again get the rub of the green when it comes to referees and everyone is getting pretty sick of it. I also believe that if the tackle wasn't on his royal highness dan carter then the punishment wouldn't have been the same.
DilzfromHtown
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DilzfromHtown
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Get over it the only thing the boks were doing before the yellow was kick the ball. The whole 20mins was them kicking the ball to the all blacks. All blacks would've smashed the boks
DilzfromHtown
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To be fair u would've lost your money anyway
DilzfromHtown
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Agree with you there. If the all blacks had a man sent off they would've tried even harder to get the win instead of puttin their tails between their legs. Boks gave up after the red card
Jerry
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FYI, this post was to a comment that has been deleted. It's not aimed at anyone in this thread.
Jerry
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This whole 'don't touch Carter' is imaginary from what I can tell. What other instances have there been that were remotely similar? And don't post that video of Andrew Hore talking rubbish after Nonu was fairly penalised.
Colin McCann
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Intent to hurt - well yeah, you want him to feel it. He intended to "hurt" (not injure) him in a way that is within the laws of the game and what a player in DC's position should reasonably expect to incur. Nothing wrong with it from a rugby laws of the game standpoint and nothing wrong with it from a tort standpoint either. As for the sanction, this is about as far as they can go. They can't criticize the ref since that would invite teams to do it regularly. But believe me Poite won't see the end of this. He probably won't ref a Test match for a long long time. He won't catch it publicly but he's going to get his comeuppance. And I like the idea that Ref and both Touch judges need to be agreed it was a yellow. TMO has to be used so they can see footage if they are considering red, and the TMO should have to agree as well. That should lessen the impact one decision can have on the outcome of a game.