Stretchered off: Niall Ronan
Scarlets lock Jake Ball has been cited for an incident that hospitalised Munster flanker Niall Ronan on Sunday.
Ronan was stretchered off in the 35th minute with a head/neck injury during his side's RaboDirect PRO12 loss to the Welsh region at Musgrave Park.
Matchday citing commissioner John West deemed the act contrary to IRB regulation 10.4 (k), which states: "Dangerous play in a scrum, ruck or maul. Players must not charge into a ruck or maul without binding."
Following a scan on Monday, Ronan was found not to have sustained serious injury in the incident.
Comments
connaughtabu says...
Now this one was very dangerous and premeditated. Ronan was in an onside at the ruck with his head down, so he didn't see what was coming. Ball lined Ronan up from 5m and charged at full speed and deliberately head-butted him. He really could have done serious damage.
I cannot see the ban being less than 12 weeks.
This type of activity needs to be excluded from our beautiful game.
Posted 14:29 28th November 2012