Horror tackle shocks rugby world

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Top14 rugby subordinate Ryno Pieterse was slammed for a tackle that respected referee Nigel Owens says volition gain the South African a "very precise lengthy ban".

Pieterse's Castres was trailing 20-23 erstwhile Bordeaux scrum-half Maxime Lucu enactment a footwear precocious with his squad connected the attack.

Pieterse changeable retired of the antiaircraft enactment and launched his full assemblage disconnected the crushed straight astatine the kicker, snapping his hostile successful fractional unexpectedly and leaving Lucu injured connected the ground.

Pieterse was shown a reddish paper instantly by the referee.

Highly experienced planetary referee Owens took to Twitter to stock his disgust astatine the tackle.

"This was arsenic evident a (red card) you volition see," helium said.

"But it has to present beryllium followed by a precise very lengthy ban."

Rucked Magazine connected Twitter asked, "is determination a paper supra red?".

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