a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/S12KwBp3UsI/AAAAAAAADxE/TrTLx6_64lk/s1600-h/tommy-bowe-leicester.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/S12KwBp3UsI/AAAAAAAADxE/TrTLx6_64lk/s400/tommy-bowe-leicester.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430649283361067714" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Ospreys beat Leicester 17-12 yesterday to advance into the quarter finals of the Heineken Cup as one of the two best group runners-up. The result is being disputed by the Tigers though, as the Ospreys fielded a 16th man during the game./spanbr /br /The Welsh region reached the last eight for the third year in a row as they knocked out two-time champions Leicester at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea.br /br /Leicester however are hoping for a lifeline after Ospreys appeared to have 16 players on the field for over a minute. They’ve made an official complaint after Lee Byrne played a role in stopping a Tigers attack.br /br /He had gone off with a bloodied and dislocated toe, being replaced by Sonny Parker. When he came back three minutes later though, no Ospreys player left the field for over a minute.br /br /"This was a very serious incident with a 16th player interfering with a try-scoring event at a crucial part of the game,” said Tigers chief executive Peter Wheeler.br /br /"We have lodged a complaint with ERC because at a significant point of the game the Ospreys had 16 men on the pitch, and that 16th man interfered with, or was involved in, a break by Ben Youngs and played a significant role in nothing developing from that.br /br /"If you play a player who is unregistered, you get docked points and strung up and all sorts of bad things happen."br /br /Referee Alan Lewis, who should have awarded a penalty at the time, was apparently told by an Ospreys player that Leicester also had 16 players on the pitch, an accusation that the Tigers strongly deny.br /br /Leicester insists that the punishment should be severe, considering the outcome of the result. The Ospreys however are hoping that they’ll get away with just a fine, and continue in the tournament, facing Biarritz in the quarter final in April.br /br /"It was very passionate and a lot of things were said down there," said Ospreys coach Scott Johnson. "But it’s a matter for the officials to sort out. I want to concentrate on the footie."br /br /This latest bit of controversy has been dubbed Subgate, following on from Bloodgate and Mudgate. We’ll update the article when we know the results of the appeal.br /span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" br /Do you think the Ospreys should be fined, have points deducted, or neither, with this simply being an unfortunate mistake by the officials? Let's hear your thoughts on the matter./spanbr /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nPNyCi4Chdsamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nPNyCi4Chdsamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span05:00br //spanspan style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Note: /spanBetter highlights will be posted later in the week if possible/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-8641344586359812866?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=_wrrLUzQ-ew:H2GhCC-r6xE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/_wrrLUzQ-ew" height="1" width="1"/ More...