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Ex-Players Hit Out At Ban Handed Down To Alesana Tuilagi For This Incident

Ex-Players Hit Out At Ban Handed Down To Alesana Tuilagi For This Incident
Sam Moore
By Sam Moore
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Alesana Tuilagi has been banned for Samoa's last pool game against Scotland on Saturday. He has also been banned for a further four weeks on top of that and will now miss the first four games of the English Premiership.

The big Samoan was judged of foul play by striking Japan's Harumichi Tatekawa with his knee when carrying the ball into contact.

The ban has led to a considerable backlash from ex-players on Twitter with quite a few bemoaning the decision taken by World Rugby.

Former Australian winger Lote Tuqiri also thought the ban was a farce and stated that this was a direct result of giving too much power to citing commissioners who have never played the game before: 

Martyn Williams also worried about the future of the game with such poor disciplinary decisions.

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Scott Quinnell, the former Wales No.8, and Jonathan Davies, the former Welsh fly-half and BBC commentator, also chimed in and echoed similar sentiments to Martyn Williams as they questioned the direction rugby was heading in with such rulings.

Two clips of the incident can be seen below. In the first clip of the incident Alan Quinlan is commentating. When highlighting the challenge he argues that their was no intent from Tuilagi and that the massive Samoan was only trying to power through the tackle of the Japanese player.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zOLFHO5Ts However, a second clip of the incident, which shows the side angle, is possibly less favourable to the Newcastle winger and it certainly gives some food for thought.

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Whether the ban was justified, we'll let you decide.

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Photo Credit: Stephen McCarthy / SPORTSFILE

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