Poll: Bok bruiser’s ban unfair?

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Is it reasonable that Andrew Kellaway got 10 minutes on the naughty chair for an incident of the sort that saw Jasper Wiese slapped with a six-match suspension?

Wallabies wing Kellaway was yellow-carded in the first half of Australia’s heavy defeat to the Springboks in Brisbane, after lifting Reinach into the air and dropping him recklessly.

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The incident was sent to the TMO Bunker for a review for a potential red card, but the decision was made to keep the punishment as a yellow card, despite Reinach landing on his head.

Making the incident more confusing is that Kellaway’s tackle bares a striking resemblance to the clean-out that saw Wiese red-carded and slapped with a six-game suspension, in his Premiership farewell for Leicester Tigers.

Wiese’s suspension has prevented the No 8 from taking any part in the Test action to date and he still has one game left to serve, when the Springboks travel to Perth for the second Rugby Championship Test against the Wallabies.

Which of these punishments would have been appropriate?

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