We know the penalty. Racing 92 hooker Janick Tarrit, guilty of a violent headbutt on Toulouse’s Efrain Elias during a Top 14 match at the end of November, receives a five-week suspension, the National Rugby League indicated on Thursday.
Tarrit, 27, was definitively excluded just before half-time on the 11th day for having collided with full force and with his head forward against the Argentinian Elias, while the Racingmen were in possession of the ball and were preparing to send him into touch to return to the locker room.
The referee returned to the fault, sanctioned the hooker and awarded a penalty to Toulouse, who took the opportunity to score a try and change the match.
Three weeks for Hastoy
“He did a Zizou, he cracked,” Toulouse hooker Guillaume Cramont smiled afterwards. I don’t know why he did that. » A feeling shared by Patrice Collazo, the coach of Racing 92. “We cannot predict stupidity,” he got carried away. I can hear everything but it doesn’t. When it puts a collective in danger, when it breaks the dynamic, it’s a total rejection. It destroys all our work. »
The manager will therefore have to do without his player for the rest of the matches to be played in 2025 and will not be able to reinstate him in the group until the beginning of 2026.
Note that on the same day of the championship, La Rochelle fly-half Antoine Hastoy received a red card after less than a minute of play against Pau for putting his foot directly on the bottom of Aaron Grandidier-Nkanang’s face while receiving a high ball.
The No. 10 from the Maritimes is suspended for three weeks by the LNR disciplinary committee and will be able to be fielded again during the holidays, when the Rochelais travel to Toulouse.
His manager Ronan O’Gara, who got angry with referee Jérémy Rozier that evening and is accustomed to this type of behavior, is suspended for two weeks.
