Six Nations: Scotland boss Gregor Townsend confused by a red card deficiency for French Peato Mauvak

Scottish coach Gregor Townsend admitted that he was confused by the decision not to upgrade the yellow map of the French Peato Mauvak on the red after his head on Ben White in their super Suppa Saturday conflicts.

For the first time in three years, France returned the title of six nations with a 35-16 over Scotland in Paris, Les Bleus eventually proved too much, as three attempts of the second half saw them picking up their second championship in the Fabien Gashthie era.

Although the emphasized increase in the second half saw that it ran into the title, the first half was much closer, and France led only 16-13 on the break thanks to the attempt by Yorama Moepan.

They could also easily be lagging behind and reduced to 14 players that Tom Jordan was disabled by the attempt to stand, and Hooker Mauvak was sent due to sharp heads on the white minute in the 20th minute.

Indeed, sending mawaka in a bucket for sin saw that the tide began to rotate with Finn Russell, who broke through the resulting penalties from close proximity to make visitors and start on the table.

For Townsend, there was no explanation behind the upgrade of the card since the white “collided in the head”

“Well, the decision not to pick it up on the red card was because there was no excessive force,” Townsend said.

“I am not sure that these were really criteria for non-acid incidents. Obviously it was an incident that did not fall, it was after the whistle. So if there was contact with the head and that was intentional, it should have nothing to do with the force involved.

“I’m sorry here, Ben White, because he did nothing. He pushed to the ground first, and pushed nothing in the rugby, and then collided in his head, so I don’t know that it wasn’t raised on a red card.

However, Townsend admitted that France was worthy of the winner of the 2025 title.

“But whether it had nothing to do with the final result, who knows, because France deserved to win, she deserved to be champions, they are a quality side,” he said.

“Although we played really well tonight, France was a better team in the end.”

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