There's a long list of people I would not like to be backhanded by. Sean O'Brien is fairly high up on that list.

Fear of spiders is aracnaphobia, fear of tight spaces is claustraphobia, fear of Sean O'Brien is logic

Holding a guy back from making a try saving tackle hmmmmmm

Fuckin serious man .. Carlow legend

Seanie done right !

o briens back was turned. tough shite to the toulouse fella he deserved a slap for holding someone back so close to the try line.

Good man Sean!

Credit Toulouse for not citing him over it, deserved or not it's violent conduct and Nyanga had to go off. They were gracious in defeat, Toulouse are a club with true class.

Have it!

R.I.P

Seán O'Brien - some boy.

@Billcasiopost why?

@UHtiger actually, as he is a flanker (or LOOSE forward) he is perfectly justified to look up, and when the ball comes out of the scrum he may break. Otherwise no.7s would b

@PinkSkinnyJerking That was uncalled for...

@purrange45 He is french?

O'Brien was just waving. Clumsy thats all

@GuinnessPremiership1 When O'Connell done it to Thomas, Thomas was after letting go plus the scrum wasn't on the Munster try line, so Jonathan Thomas wasn't preventing PO'C from defending a try opportunity. Unlike the scrum last Sat. when the scrum was right on the Leinster try line, Nyanga was pulling Sean and wouldn't relent, so Sean hit em a deserved backhand............however I do feel Dave Pearson would have been more lenient on Sean O'Brien if it was in the middle of the field

Preventing someone from making a tackle in that position is a yelllow as it is. Got what he was asking for

oups, I thought I heard SOB had no background before punching Papé ant that was the reason he had been suspended only for 1 game... this is quite ironic, isn't it?

Instead of throwing a slap into Nyanga’s mush, Sean O’Brien should have requested his captain to insist that the try go to the TMO for adjudication. It would certainly have been disallowed, with a yellow card for Nyanga.........

So SOB does have previous for punching French players.

@kassopuccino you must be a winger.

I dont understand thia sport can someone explain plz

@kassopuccino no Nyanga, if anyone, should have got sent off. He prevented possibly a crucial tackle

@bamigogy12345 well he did hold SOB back from makin a try saving tackle

@StereoUk are you blind ?, he got a backhand not an elbow !

@bamigogy Of course he did, he's French...

@Billcasiopost He didn't really deserve that though, really did he?

Nyanga made a big foul but O'Brien deserves (at least) a yellow card.

O'Brien is irish and Nyanga French

i do think Paul O'Connell got a red card for that a few moths ago....

Bet he won’t hold people back agsin

Nyanga can have no complaints, he got what he deserved!

You'd blame his anger issues on the Catholic church?

That is an actual "shut up woman" back hand!

@jazzzzz3 Right again not really a valid reason

@momope21 You were doing so well up until the racism :(

P I M P

@flipjack42 Man if you watch rugby you would know that every team does it and Leinster are champs at sending guys without the ball crashing into the D and blocking possible tacklers. If you don't believe me just watch the highlights of their win in the H cup final last year. I was rooting for them but you've got to be honest refs never make those calls. O'Brien should have been carded...just a yellow but still. It was around he eye zone too so he could have been suspended a few games.

O'Brien made the first offense by leaving the scrum prematurely. To make justice, Nyanga did the second offense by holding him. And then SOB punched him or whatever you call that I don't care: third offense. The referring is quite good, the try is perfectly valid. It makes me laugh when I see Irish saying the french cheated. It's funny that everybody thinks other are cheater. This is a lame excuse. During that wonderful game nobody cheated, the best team won, end of the story. GG Heaslip also

@decayguy be pointless

Sorry, do you guys know what playing flanker is about? Nyanga was cheating, but thats the whole point of being a flanker! Yeah he got a smack in the face, but his team got a try!

thats what happens when you touch sean o'brien

Well done seanie .he totally deserved it ...French ponse😂😂😂😂😂

o'brien : son of bitch !!!

is red card for o'donnell, but like was in leinster....