Reggie Corrigan speaks about getting Eye-Gouged

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Anyone else have a read of this. Corrigan was gouged in the 2003 RWC v Argentina and speaks about it in the Irish Times.

"It was scariest moment I've ever had on a rugby pitch. I've always said that. He ripped my contact lens in two and right out of my eye. I thought my eye was gone. When I came out of it and took my hand away from my eye, there was just blackness. I couldn't see. I genuinely though he ripped my eyeball from my socket. I genuinely did, because the two fingers went right in, like they were going into the back of my head".

What a bloody description. Seriously hope that eye-gouging dies a death from here on; disgusting thing. Rugby is full of hard men. But there are some bloody cowards out there too.

HammerofThunor wrote:Not really. The up to 50% is standard practice and is endorsed by the IRB. It's also standard practice in the legal world. I don't see the big problem with it. the only issue I had with Cueto's was the fact it was at the end of the season

The problem is it's not practiced by all unions, so there isn't a level playing field. And a player is less likely to receive a lengthy ban if his offence occurred during a domestic match compared to an ERC one.

Who doesn't apply it? And what do you mean if they don't? They don't have mitigating factors or that their no lower limit on them? Or is there a higher lower limit?

Everyone applies mitigation, but I meant the first time I'd heard of the one-off 50% reduction was for the Cueto case.

I've heard about it plenty of times before.

Hmmm, I need to keep closer eye on the RFU