a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TU7jjvz-0tI/AAAAAAAAE_M/aVe-p5PgzTM/s1600/jon-davies-legtrip-ashton.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TU7jjvz-0tI/AAAAAAAAE_M/aVe-p5PgzTM/s400/jon-davies-legtrip-ashton.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570639992373301970" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Wales centre Jonathan Davies seems to have escaped a citing for his trip on England wing Chris Ashton in the Six Nations opener on Friday night. The cut off for a citing to be submitted was last night, and there’s no news since. /spanbr /br /Young Davies, sometimes known as Jon, stretched a stray leg out at a loose ball early in the second half, only to make contact with Ashton’s leg in what looked a clumsy challenge.br /br /It seemed to have been missed by referee Alain Rolland and his assistants, but a slow motion replay a minute or so later showed the viewing audience at home what happened. BBC commentator Brian Moore nearly swallowed his mic.br /br /‘That's a red’ he said, stating that there’s no place for that on the rugby field. He’s right, but the replay did exaggerate matters tenfold, and if it was shown from a few frames back, the incident would have been put in perspective.br /br /Nevertheless, it was a dangerous, clumsy challenge and as we saw with Jerry Flannery’s leg trip on Alexis Palisson last year, the impact can be significant, and injury was lucky to be avoided.br /br /"There was no bad intentions. I am not a dirty player," said Davies about the incident.br /br /"I would never go out to trip anyone. All I remember is putting the ball through on the floor, going to kick it on again and unfortunately I got his leg.br /br /"There were no bad intentions at all. Hopefully nothing more will come of it."br /br /Jean-Etienne Bernard, the match commissioner, had a deadline of Sunday night to determine whether Davies should have received further punishment or not. It seems as though he’s decided on the latter, but if anything changes we’ll let you know.br /br /What's your take on it?br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CydQ3gEg8HI?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CydQ3gEg8HI?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/2010/02/jerry-flannery-cited-for-kick-at-alexis.html"Jerry Flannery cited for kick at Alexis Palisson's legs/abr //span/divspan style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span0:39/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-6999910985760771018?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divpa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bwQlFTBME4uj0M2sAuhNzE5RuzI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bwQlFTBME4uj0M2sAuhNzE5RuzI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bwQlFTBME4uj0M2sAuhNzE5RuzI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bwQlFTBME4uj0M2sAuhNzE5RuzI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=ZHaUKc5c9d0:GHZoxTkvWWg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/ZHaUKc5c9d0" height="1" width="1"/ More...