Stuart Lancaster faces fresh England woe as Chris Ashton is banned from playing Fiji Lancaster, though, either didn't know of the citing, which was only announced on Wednesday morning, or he is not of that Machiavellian mind. Certainly he has always been an advocate of upholding disciplinary codes of conduct. There are other coaches who would not be as scrupulous. Ashton was obliged to leave the training camp at St George's Park in Burton-on-Trent to attend a disciplinary hearing in London after he was cited for a dangerous tackle on former Northampton team-mate, Vasily Artemyev in last Saturday's Aviva Premiership match at Franklin's Gardens. The RFU procedures are such that the citing automatically counted as a yellow card, bringing his total to three for the season and triggering a hearing. Ashton has been victim of trail by television given that he had escaped sanction on the pitch for all three offences. The protocol for intervention by the television match official was only changed this season allowing him to call the referee's attention to acts of foul play. Ashton was the first player to be so censured, referee Wayne Barnes sending him to the sin-bin for a dangerous charge on a player on the advice of the TMO in the opening match of the season on September 1, the London double-header at Twickenham against London Irish. Three weeks later, Ashton fell foul of the same process against Exeter Chiefs at Sandy Park, the Saracens wing charging wildly in to a maul and making contact with an Exeter player. It was to prove a costly sin-binning, Exeter scoring the winning try down his channel in his absence. The citing, too, has also been the result of a study of video footage. In their own right, none of the offences is that heinous. Taken together, over the course of just two months, they suggest a certain rashness that needs to be addressed.