Ex-All Black slams Wallaby as 'absolute coward'

Former All Blacks five-eighth Lima Sopoaga has labelled Darcy Swain "an implicit coward" successful an bonzer Twitter onslaught on the banned Wallabies lock.

Sopoaga played 18 Tests for New Zealand betwixt 2015-17 and present plies his nine commercialized successful France with Lyon.

The 31-year-old took purpose astatine Swain successful the aftermath of Thursday's quality that All Blacks midfielder Quinn Tupaea would beryllium sidelined for 9 months owed to extended harm to the ACL successful his near knee.

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Quinn Tupaea of the All Blacks is injured astatine Marvel Stadium. (Getty)

Tupaea suffered the wounded successful the explosive Bledisloe Cup Test successful Melbourne, arsenic Swain wrenched his genu successful an disfigured and amerciable cleanout.

Swain was yellowish carded by French referee Mathieu Raynal for the incidental and was aboriginal suspended for six weeks by SANZAAR's judiciary panel.

"Swain is an implicit coward for this," Sopoaga wrote.

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"Was nary request for specified a inexpensive shot. 9 months for 6 weeks seems fair, Joke of a suspension."

Swain, 25, has had a rocky twelvemonth aft besides being reddish carded for headbutting England antagonist Jonny Hill, who had pulled his hairsbreadth successful a scuffle.

The All Blacks were furious with Swain's actions astatine Marvel Stadium and Beauden Barrett summed up their feelings. 

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"He fundamentally didn't spot it coming," Barrett said of Tupaea.

"He was a sitting duck... it was a spot of a escaped shot.

"I consciousness for him due to the fact that he's going to beryllium retired of the crippled for a agelong clip and I'm not excessively definite what's happening successful their campy with Darcy Swain. We don't similar to spot these sorts of injuries."

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