{"id":130402,"date":"2021-09-18T09:36:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T09:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=130402"},"modified":"2021-09-18T09:57:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T09:57:10","slug":"legends-divided-as-wallaby-cops-controversial-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=130402","title":{"rendered":"Legends divided as Wallaby cops controversial yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wallabies flanker Lachlan Swinton may count himself lucky after escaping a red card following a shoulder charge on Springboks No.8 Duane Vermeulen.<\/p>\n

Swinton was issued a yellow card from match official Matthew Carley after a shoulder from the 24-year-old left Vermeulen in need of assistance, struggling to his feet.<\/p>\n

With the Wallabies in control during their second Rugby Championship match against South Africa<\/a>, the Australians appeared destined to lose Swinton for the remainder of the game when the match official called for the red card.<\/p>\n

"The player was never legal because he leads with his arm by his side directly into the contact," Carley said.<\/p>\n

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\"Lachlan<\/p>\n

"There is shoulder-to-shoulder contact but simultaneously.<\/p>\n

"There is also head-to-head contact. Now because the player is upright and never making the attempt to make a legal tackle, I can't see any mitigation.<\/p>\n

"So with that being the case, it's going to be a red card."<\/p>\n

However, after one final inspection before making the call, the match official changed his mind: "Shoulder first, then the head contact. We're bringing it from red, down to yellow."<\/p>\n

Under the new laws, a red card only lasts for 20 minutes, but the player issued with the card can't return and must be replaced by someone else.<\/p>\n

The decision of a yellow card came as a relief to Wallabies great Tim Horan, who suggested Brisbane rugby fans in attendance would not have been happy if a red card was given.<\/p>\n

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\"New<\/p>\n

"I will tell you what, the security guards would've been busy if the red card came out. The crowd was going off," Horan said in commentary for Nine and Stan Sport.<\/p>\n

"It was probably a fair call. Swinton just needs to lower his body height a little bit."<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, All Blacks great Andrew Mehrtens argued Swinton was lucky not be issued a red card.<\/p>\n

"I reckon Lachie Swinton has dodged a bullet there with a yellow card instead of red," Mehrtens said.<\/p>\n

\"Brain<\/p>\n

"But I am at least glad that there's recognition that a collision like that looks much worse when slowed down.<\/p>\n

"It's so hard to change body position in a fraction of a second so seeing it in real-time is the way to go. At first, I thought it was going to be red."<\/p>\n

The Wallabies went on to record a famous 30-17 win.<\/a><\/p>\n

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