FRANCE BACK ROW Oscar J\u00e9gou has been cited for allegedly making contact with the eye area of Scottish hooker\u00a0Ewan Ashman during yesterday\u2019s Six Nations game between the sides.<\/p>\n
France were beaten 50-40 by Scotland in Edinburgh and back row J\u00e9gou, who has started all four games in the championship so far, could now miss out on\u00a0les Bleus\u2019\u00a0clash with England in the final round on Saturday if he is suspended.<\/p>\n
The incident involving J\u00e9gou did not lead to any in-game sanction for the French player, but he has now been cited.<\/p>\n
The Six Nations has confirmed that J\u00e9gou will face an independent disciplinary hearing on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrance (No. 7), Oscar J\u00e9gou, will attend an independent disciplinary hearing after he was cited for an act of foul play contrary to Law 9.12 (A player must not physically or verbally abuse anyone. Physical abuse includes, but is not limited to, biting, punching, contact with the eye or eye area, striking with any part of the arm, shoulder, head or knee(s), stamping, trampling, tripping or kicking) in the Men\u2019s Six Nations Championship match between Scotland and France on Saturday 7th March 2026,\u201d\u00a0reads a statement from the Six Nations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe player will attend the hearing via video conference before an independent Disciplinary Committee comprising Simon Thomas (Chair), Christopher Morgan and John Langford.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hearing will take place on Tuesday 10th March 2026 at 9.30am (GMT).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRANCE BACK ROW Oscar J\u00e9gou has been cited for allegedly making contact with the eye area of Scottish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[213413,2000,299,32002,36,2484,234620,712,4209],"class_list":["post-813148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-citing","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-fallout","tag-france","tag-hearing","tag-oscar-jegou","tag-scotland","tag-six-nations"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116196020386994906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}