Knoyle & Puafisi set for hearing

Gloucester pair Tavis Knoyle and Sila Puafisi will appear before a disciplinary hearing in London this Wednesday after being sent off against Bath at the weekend.

Knoyle was given a red card for throwing punches at Leroy Houston after Puafisi had been given his marching orders for a high tackle on Nick Abendanon.

A bad-tempered game saw Gloucester end with 11 men on the field with two players in the sin-bin while Bath also had three players yellow-carded.

Bath won the Aviva Premiership match 18-17 with a last-gasp conversion following a penalty try.

Gloucester have already revealed they have identified a schoolboy who threw a plastic bottle at referee Tim Wigglesworth at the end of the game.

As well as the Gloucester players coming under further scrutiny, Abendanon has been given a Level One citing for striking Knoyle and Paul James for stamping on Shaun Knight.

Both players have been handed retrospective yellow cards although there is no further action to be taken against the five players who were sin-binned during the game.

Bath's Carl Fearns, Matt Garvey and Dave Attwood will serve no further punishment, nor will Gloucester's Huia Edmonds and Mike Tindall.

Rugby Football Union (RFU) chief executive Ian Ritchie admitted that the unsavoury scenes at Kingsholm were bad for the sport.

"The RFU are looking at it, looking at the video and what went on. We'll make some views on it in a disciplinary fashion," Ritchie said.

"I don't think anybody could look at it and say it was the greatest advert for the game, both in terms of the things that happened off and on the pitch.

"We'll be looking at it, but we have an independent disciplinary process.

"It will go through the right independent judicial process. I do not interfere with what happens in that process."