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PETER JACKSONTHE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

RYNO Pieterse’s horizontal hit on Bordeaux scrum-half Maxime Lucu demanded a long sentence.The Top 14 disciplinary panel decided that the South African’s grotesque impersonation of a human missile justified banning him for 24 weeks, almost six months.There did not appear to be a single mitigating factor worth reducing the punishment by a week or two. And yet the panel saw fit to halve the punishment basically because Pieterse apologised for what they described as ‘the high level of danger of his action’.So for sayi...

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