Top 14. Suspended 4 games, Richie Arnold (Toulouse) is already playing again: the underside of his release
By Clement Mazella
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This is good news for the Toulouse stadium. Expected by the FFR Appeal Committee this Thursday, October 6, 2022, the second line richie arnoldexpelled during the match against Pau (3e Top 14 day) and suspended for 4 weeks by the Disciplinary Committee of the NRL, was relaxed. This explains why he is on the game sheet of Toulouse-Clermont this Saturday, October 8, paying meeting for the 6e Top 14 day.
Mola: “Fingers crossed…”
This Friday 7, around 1 p.m., manager Ugo Mola was questioned on the subject. He remained evasive, because the decision “has not yet been communicated”. “But we tend towards good news. We cross our fingers until the end, ”he added. The outcome is no longer in doubt according to the echoes circulating.
This proved when Stade Toulousain revealed, on its social networks, the 23 players present on the score sheet against ASM. Richie Arnold appears there, as a substitute, alongside Peato Mauvaka, Melvyn Jaminet or even Pierre-Louis Barassi, who only played 40 short minutes against Bordeaux-Bègles (J1).
Toulouse: The composition against Clermont
The starting XV: Capuozzo; Retière, Nanai-Williams, Guitoune, Lebel; (o) Ramos, (m) Dupont; Elstadt, Tolofua, Roumat; Flament, Jelonch; Aldegheri, Merchant, Neti.
Replacements: Mauvaka, Duprat, Ainu’u, Arnold, Brennan, Ntamack, Barassi, Jaminet.
The red card will not appear in the locker
Arnold’s red card in Pau, for a tackle deemed high and dangerous, had sufficiently annoyed in the Toulouse ranks. After many explanations, and in particular in front of the Disciplinary Commission of the LNR, the Australian, who had understood the right to a perfect translation in order to what he was accused of, had still not understood why the contact with Lekima Tagitagivalu had earned an expulsion.
After consultation with the Toulouse staff, the player and the club decided to appeal. Good to them. Because the Appeal Commission released the second line, which implies that this red card will not appear in his locker (he had in mind one against Clermont in September 2020).
The regulations are different between the FFR and the NRL
What you have to understand is that the FFR Appeal Committee has deepened the red card itself. That is to say, she wondered whether or not the situation deserved a red card against Richie Arnold. She revealed no. Therefore, we can therefore think that the second line of Toulouse served 2 suspension games (against Racing 92 and Montpellier) for nothing.
The Disciplinary Commission of the LNR, it relies on its regulations, different from those of the FFR, and it is clearly indicated that a red card automatically leads to a suspension. This is why players are often summoned 10 days after the fact (thereby serving 1 automatic match). It does not study the red card itself, unlike the FFR, therefore not dwelling on whether or not the action deserved the supreme sanction. Anyway, here is a case that will set a precedent.
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