GIF: Should This Have Been More Than Yellow Card?

With 52 minutes on the clock between Ireland and France, Pascal Pape was sent to the sin bin for a knee to the back of Jamie Heaslip.

Heaslip went to ground in serious pain. Now it turns out he has a suspected broken vertebrae following the incident.

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Shane Horgan thought that it was deserving of more than a yellow card.