Ardie Savea’s character testimonial helped cut back Eben Etzebeth’s ban from 18 to 12 weeks after an incident with Wales’ Alex Mann,
Eben Etzebeth has been banned for 12 weeks (Picture: Getty)
It has been revealed that All Blacks star Ardie Savea’s testimony helped reduce the ban on Eben Etzebeth for a watch gouge on Wales’ Alex Mann. Etzebeth was proven a crimson card after seeming to gouge into Mann’s eye socket in the course of the last levels of South Africa’s 73-0 victory on the Principality Stadium final weekend.
Initially, a disciplinary committee determined to impose an 18-week ban for his involvement within the incident. Nonetheless, a personality reference from Savea and the participant’s earlier disciplinary document helped lower that punishment right down to 12 weeks. In a press release explaining their determination, the committee mentioned: “Having thought of the Participant’s and different proof and reviewed the footage, and for the explanations set out within the full written determination, the Disciplinary Committee have decided that contact with the attention was intentional and a mid-range entry level of eighteen weeks/matches was applicable.
“Some mitigating elements, together with the Participant’s earlier document, had been utilized by the Committee decreasing the 18 week entry level by six weeks to 12 weeks/matches. We additionally gave applicable weight to the character testimonial from Ardie Savea.”
ann has since disclosed that Etzebeth apologised to him after the sport on the post-match dinner.
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In the course of the disciplinary proceedings, he supplied testimony stating: “There was an altercation involving a number of gamers from either side – I then felt a finger go into my eye adopted by an open hand into my face. The South African quantity 19 apologised to me within the submit match perform.
This adopted a visibly livid Mann confronting Etzebeth on the sector after the ultimate whistle.
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