Rugby Eye Gouge
It is a serious offence in rugby football codes where it occurs rarely.
Rugby eye gouge. 15 apr 2020 0700 am 5 minutes to read. Eye gouging is prohibited in modern sports. The fate of george burgess career at south sydney now sits in the hands of his teammates after copping a nine game nrl ban for an eye gouge. World rugby has sat on its hands for too long sam bruce writes.
La rochelle hooker pierre bourgarit received a red card for making contact with tom currys eyes during his sides champions cup defeat by sale sharks. Video published on november 25 2019. The bad boy of england rugby dylan hartley has a rap sheet a mile long adding up to a years worth of suspensions with his eye gouging ban making up a large part of the numbers. It is prohibited in combat sports but some self defense systems teach it.
Eye gouging is a serious offence in rugby union where a player uses hands or fingers to inflict pain in an opponents eyes. Sport rugby rugby. Watch more in the video above. 38 red card youtube.
Training in eye gouging can involve extensive grappling training to establish control the eye gouging itself being practiced with the opponent wearing eye. The games laws refer to it as contact with eyes or the eye area of an opponent but such incidents are usually referred to as eye gouging among players and in the media. A gouging incident which left an amateur rugby player blind in one eye was being investigated by police today. Video will play in.
Burgess was on tuesday night found guilty of a eye gouging wests tigers veteran robbie farah last week ruling him out for the rest of the regular season. Biting eye gouging and ref abuse the longest bans in rugby union history.