Jonathan Davies launched an impassioned protest to referee Ben Blain after the Scarlets fell to a 32-15 defeat by the Lions in Sunday’s United Rugby Championship encounter in Johannesburg.
The west Walians had seen Vaea Fifita leave the field on 45 minutes with a bloodied nose after taking a swinging arm to the face from home back rower Darrien Landsberg. Surprisingly, no card was shown to the flanker.
But just before half-time Sam Costelow had been dispatched to the bin after a tackle across the neck area of scrum-half Sanele Nohamba which looked far more innocuous than the one Landsberg came up with.
