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Albert Nikoro receives four week suspension
Counties Manukau winger Albert Nikoro has been suspended from all rugby for four weeks after receiving a red card for a dangerous tackle in his team’s final match of the Mitre 10 Cup against Ta$man on Saturday 14 October.
Nikoro was red carded for a dangerous tackle (law 10.4e) in the 65th minute of the match. Counties Manukau won the fixture 52-30.
New Zealand Rugby Duty Judicial Officer Helen Morgan who found the offending to be dangerous with the tackle involving a swinging arm that made direct contact with the head of the opponent, therefore making it a mid-range offence.
Morgan found an aggravating factor to be that the opponent failed his Head Injury Assessment concussion tests and therefore added one week to the entry level sanction.
Nikoro does have a clean judicial record and acknowledged is wrongdoing with an early guilty plea, and therefore Morgan reduced the suspension from seven to four weeks.
The suspension will see Nikoro miss his next four scheduled matches.
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Haven't seen a decision on the red cards handed out to Tudreu and Lamborn in the Magpies v Turbos game.
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@stargazer said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:
The women's Farah Palmer Cup and the Heartland Championship have also reached the semi-finals stage. See the fixtures below. The women's semi between Canterbury and Waikato will take place before the men's semi-final and will be broadcast on Sky Sport 3. It seems the other women's semi, and the Heartland semis will not be televised, but possibly they will be livestreamed.
Farah Palmer Cup
Heartland Championship
Farah Palmer Cup: Livestream for Counties v Auckland:
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Apparently the 2 guys red carded in the HB-Man game, Tudreu and Lamborn have been banned for 5 & 4 weeks respectively.
So when are bans like this actually served, start of club rugby, or do they miss out on some club 7s?
edit found the article
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From the same article:
With Hawke's Bay and Manawatu not involved in the Mitre 10 Cup Championship final this weekend, the suspensions will likely be served in club rugby next year. Lamborn is suspended from all rugby for his next four matches, and Tudreu is suspended from all rugby for five scheduled matches.I'm not so sure - in Lamborn's case - that this will affect his availability for the two USA test matches. I can't see how NZR judicial decisions are applicable to international matches (not involving NZ), unless there's something in the World Rugby handbook that says so, or if USA rugby accepts the rulings?
Edit: from article on OneNews website:
Lamborn will miss his next four matches - which could include USA's upcoming Tests against Germany and Georgia - while Tudreu will miss five games. -
@stargazer surely a ban playing rugby under a NZR comp is a ban from all IRB sanctioned rugby.
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@taniwharugby You'd think so. Not sure what the rules are.
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Thinking of it, I'd probably find the consequences of that a bit disproportionate. It's way worse to be suspended from a test match than a club rugby game. While players should foresee and suffer the consequence of their actions, the consequences for players involved in international test matches are way more serious than for players only playing club rugby & NPC if these sanctions apply to test matches. -
The laws are the same for all senior games and do not differ despite what grade a player might be playing at hence suspension should not differentiate. Foul play is foul play be it in a senior reserve grade game or a test match thus should apply to all matches a player could be expected to take part in.
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@stargazer not really, he is being paid to play rugby in a NZR Competition, which adheres to rules and laws governed by the IRB, therefore he has breached rules of both bodies so any ban would apply over any games he may be available to play...you are banned from all forms of competitive rugby.
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Canterbury has won the Farah Palmer Cup Premiership as well. They beat a very ill-disciplined Counties Manukau 13 to 7 (2 tries to 1). Counties had two players with a spell in the bin, but that could easily have been more.
Some good skills in this game, and entertaining to watch. It's clear there's quite a gap between the better Premiership teams and the rest.
Canterbury has been in the final 7 times, and this is their first title. Unsure, but this was probably the first time Auckland wasn't in the final.
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@higgins I didn't really pay attention to that while watching and I can't remember hearing a number. Sky used a very limited number of cameras to televise this game (TMO had a difficult job because of that), so there was only a limited view of the stadium. There was quite a bit of noise; lots of kids, I think. Can't remember seeing people on the embankment though, I think they were all in the stands.
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Ta$man No 8 Jordan Taufua is headed for a well-earned rest following on operation on his broken left arm in the wake of Saturday's Mitre 10 Cup rugby final. Ta$man lost 35-13 to Canterbury in Saturday's premiership decider in Christchurch, with Taufua having to be replaced in the 41st minute after suffering what appeared to be a broken arm in the game's opening minutes. Ta$man Rugby Union chief executive Tony Lewis confirmed that Taufua had an operation on Sunday and that he could be out of action for up to 12 weeks.Lewis didn't believe the injury would have any real impact on Taufua's commitments with the Crusaders who didn't reassemble until January in their quest for back to back Super Rugby titles. "It's a chance now for Jordan to get his body right and the rest will do him good. He's one hell of a rugby player and one hell of a human being." -
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.Halfback Johnathan Ruru is a new 2018-19 Mitre 10 Cup signing for Auckland. Currently on the Maori All Blacks’ northern tour, the 24-year-old is fresh off two seasons for Otago and has also played for the All Blacks Sevens.
Auckland has 21 players signed for the 2018 season, and is in the process of contracting several others. Those re-signed earlier in the season were Ofa Tu’ungafasi, Scott Scrafton, TJ Faiane and New Zealand Under 20s prop Ezekiel Lindenmuth. – Campbell Burnes -
@daffy-jaffy said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:
Johnathan Ruru
Good news. He and Costa should be an improvement.
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@tim I wonder who the new coach is? Any chance Jon Preston who is looking for a head coach gig.
