a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TI-zWNm2DwI/AAAAAAAAEiM/OepEZjOM5tY/s1600/george-stowers-nick-abendan.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/TI-zWNm2DwI/AAAAAAAAEiM/OepEZjOM5tY/s400/george-stowers-nick-abendan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516825262743228162" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"As you may have seen on thea href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/09/aviva-premiership-highlights.html" Aviva Premiership highlights/a post yesterday, George Stowers of London Irish received a straight red card on the weekend after he made a dangerous tackle on Bath fullback Nick Abendanon at the Recreaton Ground. /spanbr /br /Stowers was shown a straight red by ref Dave Pearson after his flailing arm looked to have connected with Abendanon’s chin, stunning him for a few minutes as he flopped to the floor in a heap.br /br /Abendanon stayed on the field and actually helped Bath to the 20-13 win, scoring a try 15 minutes later, despite being a bit dazed by what had happened. He said he didn’t even realise that Stowers had been sent off for the swinging arm.br /br /"I felt it and I was pretty dazed," Abendanon said. "As I was running I tripped a bit and I think he was unlucky to catch me. I don't think he meant to do it," he added.br /br /Stowers appeared before RFU disciplinary officer Jeff Blackett earlier this evening, with Blackett ruling that the red card was sufficient punishment.br /br /There was a bit of talk about it on here yesterday, so below is a better quality version for you to watch. Happy with the outcome of the hearing, or do you think red was harsh in the first place?br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/I6pGeFciS2o?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/I6pGeFciS2o?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerspan style="font-size:85%;"br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span01:04/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-538789336499479176?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=YEgd_3I3wnM:1-rVeSl3Z6E:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/YEgd_3I3wnM" height="1" width="1"/ More...