Henderson pays high price for costly late yellow card

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WARREN Gatland was left ruing Iain Henderson’s yellow card which cost the Lions victory over the Hurricanes.
“The penalties we gave away were a bit soft and they allowed them back into it,” Gatland said.
“We felt like we played some good rugby, but that yellow card was a penalty to us and it ends up being a penalty reversed.
“We had Henderson off the field for ten minutes and conceded 14 points. To me that’s the game in a nut shell.”
Henderson, who paid a heavy price for his indiscretion by losing out to Courtney Lawes for a place on the bench in th...

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