An extra player for 14 seconds: Brive complains against Toulouse to the Rugby League

14 seconds for a discord.

Brive decided to file a complaint with the National Rugby League (LNR) this Sunday the day after his defeat against Toulouse (26-8).

A match during which the reigning French champions played for 14 seconds with one player too many.

The NRL has confirmed the information.

The Disciplinary Committee is expected to meet in an accelerated procedure next week.

We were playing the 72nd minute of this duel when Toulouse, in the lead (23-3), evolved in numerical inferiority following the red card received by his New Zealand right pillar Charlie Faumuina from the 17th minute.

Only, a confusion in the replacements allowed the Red and Black to go back to 15.

Very strange scene in Brive with Toulouse who played for 14 seconds with one player too many 🤔#CABST pic.twitter.com/s2nTu1iyxg

– Canal Rugby Club (@CanalRugbyClub) May 21, 2022

Three Toulouse players came into play and only two came out and this "excess number" lasted fourteen seconds without the refereeing body or the delegate of the meeting noticing it, unlike the Brive bench who immediately let it be known.

Match replayed in 2020 for a similar game fact

After the defeat, manager Jeremy Davidson said that “we have to see what we are going to do with the club, I am not yet aware of the decision we are going to take”.

On Sunday, the CAB therefore decided to file a complaint.

A similar case occurred in a National match in 2020 between Nice and Narbonne - the Niçois had played 16 against 15 for 30 seconds - and the match was replayed.

Thanks to its victory in Corrèze, Toulouse has returned to the Top 6 one day from the end and therefore has its destiny in hand - reception of the relegated Biarritz in two weeks - to qualify for the final stages.

For its part, Brive still occupies 12th place and remains under threat from the barrage Perpignan who is 3 points behind before his trip to Castres on Sunday evening at the end of the 25th day.