But a couple of points must be noted first off byrne has appealled as his is right, or does anyone else not remember martin johnson appealling against one of his bans for punching he appealed at last minute , hearing was held for following week after the match that he was banned for, so he could play . strangely enough it was wales at twickers if i remember correctly. another sportsman using the system. he had no grounds for appeal as he admitted that he walloped a saracens player for no reason, yet he was needed for that english match so much.
Also to me the persons at fault here are the officials AND/OR the ospreys as no one seems to know both sides of the story. its quite clear that the ospreys touch line lady had talked to 4th official who seemed to be struck dumb at the time lewis was berating the lady in front of the cameras.
also lewis after game had restarted still had trouble understanding or hearing his officials properly when he was told of substituion involving taking Biggar off.
Also why hasn`t lewis been taken to task over his failure to enforce rules. if he had this matter would have been sorted without any bans or fines. The fines have only come about due to wheeler making such a commotion about a simple mistake, and poor reffing. after all there is no guarantee leicester would have kicked the penalty, which would have still kept them behind by 2 points, and they did not score again.
from my personal view i want Byrne to play as he`s a very good player, and allthough england have not played well lately, we have`nt had an easy game at twickenham since the 70`s , and this game could go either way.
But lets hope saturday is remembered for quality rugby not controversy.
