IRB disciplinary committee gives Richie Rees 12 weeks for eye gouging on Dylan Hartley. Pretty sure that’s the minimum ban so he seems to have escaped fairly lightly, it was Dylan Hartley though so its is easy to understand their leniency!
Richie Rees gets 12 weeks
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