Red Card Simon Shaw

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[DRSTRANGELOVE105]

Love it!!! Dally, Shaw, Julian, and the boys beating up the Blacks!!! WWWWOOOOO

[senluijr]

@GrungeRocker1000 Dangerous play it probably was worth a yellow, I don't think it was worth the red. Whatever the penalty should have been the situation should never have arisen as the referee frequently failed to penalise deliberate obstruction in this match. Yellow cards should have been given several times to the ABs for deliberate infringements.

[icemanmike]

End of the day it was stupid to risk it, whether red was the right call or not. Just drag him out by the collar. It's like Ferris' tackle v Wales - whether or not it was a penalty/card, why risk picking a player up and tipping him at all in that situation.

I do hate the double standards in NZ though. In the 2003 tour, when England beat NZ down under, Josh Lewsey had his faced stamped to pieces by the All Blacks. It was clear to see on camera. Did the NZRFU prosecute one of their players? No.

[PhilTheDrummist]

Love how all the Kiwis are bitching about this, like you haven't got the biggest thug in rugby, Kevin Mealamu, playing for your team. The fact he's even still employed is a fucking travesty.

Also, where's the knee to the head? By my viewing Shaw catches him on the shoulder, his knee is nowhere near his head.

[CalluW]

@harataikiphilosopher you say that 10 escalated the violence, and i say that england 8 did that with his blindside hit and grabbing spencer's face. spencer was looking out for his team, while shaw was looking to cause harm.

and if the tigers have the RFU in their pocket, why did tuilagi get carded at all? quite a strong call there

[CalluW]

@senluijr shaw doesn't put his leg on the ground, but he does connect with the players head twice - hence the second knee. and frankly, who cares if the ABs did infringe or not - sure, if they did the players would get frustrated, but at a professional player representing your country on the international stage you shouldn't let yourself fall to the level that you would stupidly knee someone. and put it this way, offsides and fouls or knee to the head twice, which is worse?

[senluijr]

@CalluW yet the deliberate offsides and fouls by the ABs I mentioned (which you ignored) were not even penalised. Your statement about only being 10 minutes into the game is practically irrelevant 10 mintues is plenty long enough. Oh and where is the second knee, not managed to find multiple in the video.

[nickdnz]

I love how bias English commentary is (and the idiots on Youtube). Simon Shaw leads in with a knee on Robinson (who is defensless), Spencer pushes him off and gets a cheap shot from Dallaglio. It was a good sending off.

[harataikiphilosopher]

@CalluW it doesn't matter whether to reaction is violent or not, its not the players place to get involved, and you can't say that the 10 was preventing violence as he created a situation where the violence escalated and no Tuilagi didn't throw a punch but don't get me started on that game, the fucking RFU are so in the Tigers pocket its unreal.

[CalluW]

@harataikiphilosopher and the tiger you're thinking of is alesana tuilagi, who after video replay you can see never threw a single punch

[CalluW]

@harataikiphilosopher that's a completely different incident, did tom wood react in such a way that was violent or just preventative of violence? spencer stopped shaw from further harming a player, wood continued the brawl