KYLE Sinckler can consider himself fortunate to get off with a seven-week ban after making contact with Northampton lock Michael Paterson’s eyes last weekend. The leniency also highlights – again – the lack of consistency in the disciplinary sentencing process.
Last season Chris Ashton was banned for ten weeks for a neck/face roll on Luke Marshall in Saracens’ European Cup tie with Ulster which was more accidental than Sinckler’s latest misdemeanour. Yet, because it was three weeks longer, it effectively ended Ashton’s England career. His hopes of an Engl...