An incredibly dangerous precedent has been set in the United Rugby Championship (URC) following the egregious decision to ban Jan-Hendrik Wessels and not Josh Murphy.

In a matter of he said, he said, an all-Welsh disciplinary panel took the word of the Connacht man and not the Bull, letting the former off scot-free and emphatically bringing the hammer down on the latter.

The decision to give Murphy a free pass stinks of incompetence if not blatant bias; there will be accusations of the latter from the public of such, with the Irishman given a free pass for actions even outlawed in