Eugene Marais makes a pointed case that the URC has exposed itself to legitimate accusations of inconsistency by clearing Tadhg Furlong of a groin-grabbing citing — despite video evidence — while having banned Jan-Hendrik Wessels for eight weeks last season for effectively the same offence, on thinner evidence. The argument isn't that Furlong deserved a ban; Marais concedes that clearing a player without clear and obvious evidence is the right outcome. The problem is that the Wessels precedent was set on even weaker grounds, and no one at the URC has explained why the same logic didn't apply then. Whether it was the severity of the victim's reaction, the identities of the players involved, or something else entirely, the disciplinary body has never said — and that silence is what's fuelling the fury among South African supporters ahead of the Ireland-Springbok Test at the Aviva.