a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TLV2TaTrTDI/AAAAAAAAEpQ/Kl04Np9nctk/s1600/jamie-cudmore-punch-saracens2.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TLV2TaTrTDI/AAAAAAAAEpQ/Kl04Np9nctk/s400/jamie-cudmore-punch-saracens2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527454193518595122" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"It was a fiery start to the Heineken Cup as four players have been cited for various incidents taking place around Europe. a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/10/sam-tuitupou-cited-for-dangerous-tackle.html"Sam Tuitupou/a and Jonny Fa’amatuainu both made dangerous tackles, Martyn Williams dropped a knee in Chris Paterson’s face, and Jamie Cudmore has been cited for an alleged stamp, as you can see in this clip. /spanbr /br /Cudmore, no stranger to controversy, was actually yellow carded after the incident but it was a punch that he got in trouble for at the time, not a stamp. The punch in question seemed more like a flathander rather than a closed fist, but it’s the damage done to Saracens flanker Jacques Burger that has landed him in hot water.br /br /There weren’t any good replays of the stamp as all the focus was on the punch, but you can see where it happens just before that, as the maul begins to break up. The reaction of the players is obvious, as Andy Saul for one looked incensed.br /br /Burger, who was recently named Aviva Premiership player of the month for September, needed stitches in the mouth and was reportedly furious about what had happened.br /br /The hearings for all four incidents will take place in Dublin today. Cudmore is cited under Law 10.4 (b) ‘A player must not stamp or trample on an opponent’. The recommended IRB sanction for such an offence is 2 weeks for Low End, 5 weeks for Mid Range, 9 plus weeks for Top End, and the maximum punishment is 52 weeks.br /br /The unfortunate thing is that Cudmore had earlier scored a nice try, but yet again managed to tarnish the good work. The commentator brought up the fight between a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2008/12/paul-oconnell-fight-with-jamie-cudmore.html"Cudmore and Paul O’Connell from two years/a ago, so that’s been thrown in here too to make it more interesting.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"UPDATE: /spanWe've just heard that Cudmore got 10 weeks. Tuitupou got three for his tackle.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6_umince9NM?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6_umince9NM?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;":: Related Posts ::/spanbr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/06/henry-tuilagi-crushes-lock-jamie.html"Henry Tuilagi crushes lock Jamie Cudmore in Top 14 final/abr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2009/10/jamie-cudmore-suspended-following-punch.html"Jamie Cudmore suspended following punch and red card/abr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2008/12/paul-oconnell-fight-with-jamie-cudmore.html"Jamie Cudmore suspended after fight with Paul O'Connell/abr //span/divbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span02:24/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-7968749631437291832?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=_CiTgwGFvjo:zg1U7rIDkyA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/_CiTgwGFvjo" height="1" width="1"/ More...