The near-identical timing of Gavin Coombes's testicle-grab allegation against an unnamed Leinster player — almost exactly a year after Wessels's nine-week ban for the Josh Murphy incident — has created an unavoidable test of URC disciplinary consistency. The piece highlights that the same citing commissioner, Peter Ferguson, is involved in both cases, and draws direct parallels: in both instances, on-field officials couldn't find conclusive footage, yet Wessels was ultimately banned on the balance of probabilities. The argument is straightforward — if Munster's claimed 'clear footage' is presented and Ferguson still doesn't cite, the URC owes a public explanation, because the Wessels precedent already exists. The piece stops short of alleging bias but is explicit that South African frustration over the original case was legitimate, and that a failure to act consistently here would make the double-standards charge very hard to dismiss.