All Blacks prop Owen Franks should count himself extremely luck after he was cleared of an alleged eye-gouge on Wallabies lock Kane Douglas in Bledisloe II.
That's the opinion of former Wallabies winger Cameron Shepherd, who told ESPN's Scrum5 podcast he thought the incident had been "swept up like it didn't happen".
Referencing a similar incident that saw Argentina forward Mariano Galarza suspended for nine weeks at last year's Rugby World Cup, Shepherd said Franks didn't even have the excuse he couldn't see what he was doing.
"As far as the Franks eye-gouge, you can't be putting your hands up around someone's eyes," Shepherd said.
"And not only that, he's looking at him; so it's not like his head is down in a maul or a ruck and he can't see what he's doing. And then after his hand is removed from the eyes he comes underneath and it almost looks as if he goes for a choke. Now I would never say that's 100 percent what he's doing, but that's what it looks like and that's the way it's interpreted.
"Now look apologies but I can't remember the two people in question with this case but when New Zealand played Argentina at the Rugby World Cup 12 months ago, one of the Argentinian forwards lashed out with his hands towards the face of one of the New Zealand players and he got nine weeks for doing that.
"Now I've watched both those bits of footage side by side at Fox Sports during the week, and look Franks should have been in a lot more trouble than this getting swept up like it didn't happen."
Shepherd also spoke of the Wallabies' defensive woes, telling Scrum5 he'd heard rumours Michael Cheika had been putting his squad through a heavy workload the day before each Test match.
"I've thought on top of everything from the last few weeks, the boys look tired. I think they're being over-trained at the moment. I think Cheika is so nervous about being under-prepared that he's doing too much.
"A few sources close to the camp have told me that training sessions, even the day before the game, are going for two hours. Now if you're still prepping for two hours the day before a Test match, you're not in the right mindset anyway; you know that should be where you just put a little bit of the polish on what you've done during the week.
"So to me, yeah it's mindset. And I think sometimes our structures in defence aren't very good. But I think that our change in (defensive) attitude has only come about because the guys are so tired, they're rundown and mentally they're already battling that whole issue of pressure of beating the All Blacks. So all those things combined I think are having an effect."