After Rory shoulder-charged France centre David Marty, the yellow card was shown to his brother, Sean, who spent 10 minutes on the sidelines.
"I don't want that on my record," said the Northampton star last night after being sent to the sin bin for the first time in 29 Test appearances. "I'm going to try and get it overturned."
His brother, Rory, who had come on as a substitute for Dan Parks, criticised touch-judge Donal Courtney for dragging Sean into the controversy, but denied his late tackle was illegal in any case. "I was told it was a shoulder charge, that I didn't use my arms, but that is how I often tackled throughout my career. I do use my arms."
"How he (Courtney) got it so wrong when he was so close I can't understand. But I was glad I wasn't sent to the bin because I had only just come on!"