Junior Bok banned for 'sexually crude' comment aimed at England opponent's mother
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Junior Bok banned for 'sexually crude' comment aimed at England opponent's mother
Cape Town - Junior Springbok hooker Tiaan van der Merwe has been banned for six weeks after verbally attacking an England player during the recently-completed Junior World Championship.
The incident happened in South Africa's semi-final loss to England when Van der Merwe was cited for a verbal altercation with England lock Joel Kpoku.
Now, after a disciplinary hearing, World Rugby have confirmed the seriousness of the infringement.
World Rugby's findings have confirmed that Van der Merwe used sexually explicit language directed at Kpoku as the Englishman was on his knees preparing to get ready for a scrum.
"It was a serious and gross verbal abuse of a highly-offensive sexual nature in relation to a player’s mother accompanied by a highly offensive sexual gesture," the World Rugby report read.
According to the report, Van der Merwe admitted that he had said: "That is what your mother will look like while sucking my c***", accompanied by a highly-offensive facial gesture imitating a sucking motion directed at the England player.
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@tim said in Junior Bok banned for 'sexually crude' comment aimed at England opponent's mother:
SIX WEEKS
Surely it should have been 9 1/2 weeks
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@bones said in Junior Bok banned for 'sexually crude' comment aimed at England opponent's mother:
@tim doesn't sound like Kpoku will quite have the substance to tough it at higher levels. Poor petal.
Why? He wasn't the one who reported it to the referee. He didn't even hear or see it, and didn't respond to it.
Van der Merwe is a dickhead by the sound of it. No pun intended.
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@stargazer Oh, my mistake then. Who did report it to the ref?
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@stargazer said in Junior Bok banned for 'sexually crude' comment aimed at England opponent's mother:
@bones England's captain.
That makes him a wankstain.
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@bovidae said in Junior Bok banned for 'sexually crude' comment aimed at England opponent's mother:
I hope WR was thorough and viewed all camera angles.
And took into account mitigating factors such as whether the gesture and comment had any factual base.
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I don't know what's satire any more
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@bovidae said in Junior Bok banned for 'sexually crude' comment aimed at England opponent's mother:
I hope WR was thorough and viewed all camera angles.
They did (3 different video files) and also listened to the referee's microphone audio.
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@stargazer said in Junior Bok banned for 'sexually crude' comment aimed at England opponent's mother:
@bovidae said in Junior Bok banned for 'sexually crude' comment aimed at England opponent's mother:
I hope WR was thorough and viewed all camera angles.
They did (3 different video files) and also listened to the referee's microphone audio.
Well thank god that was the limit. I was thinking they might have summoned the Mum to the boardroom. An hour later they emerged saying “Six weeks. It was clearly malicious as she looks completely different in that situation”.
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I am still struggling to believe this is real? Fucking 6 weeks?
6
SIX
WEEKS!!!!
For a bit of abuse. And not even bad abuse. Like, generic, mum-joke abuse. It wasn't even that good, and could have easily been countered in a way that would have made the saffer look like a cock in front of his mates.
6 fucking weeks.
Imagine what the Mariner 2nd rower would have got when he told that idiot from port Douglas "the best part of you ran down your mum's leg". Even the fucking ref laughed.
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Six weeks is excessive, I’d have given him a week, tops. But, I can see where these are “juniors” and World Rugby wants to set an example - there’s always been sledging but they don’t want this in the sport, they don’t want to see it emulated by schoolboy players knowing there’ll only be a week suspension and they want to stamp it out, and if it is an example and it sends a message to schoolboys that this won’t be tolerated, I won’t be too disappointed. My grandparents stood on the sidelines in cold rain on Saturday mornings and afternoons to watch games I played in, and if they’d even seen that sort of garbage during one of my games they would never have come back. World Rugby wants to get out in front of it and send a message. I’m not one for political correctness, but this doesn’t unduly upset me.
