{"id":332142,"date":"2023-09-19T00:06:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T00:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=332142"},"modified":"2023-09-19T01:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T01:00:29","slug":"ex-nrl-star-faces-monster-ban-after-gee-up-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=332142","title":{"rendered":"Ex NRL star faces monster ban after 'gee up' charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former NRL<\/a> star Paul Vaughan<\/a> is facing a long suspension in the Super League<\/a> for a bizarre incident.<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe 32-year-old middle forward was referred straight to the judiciary and is facing a four-to-six week ban for a Grade E charge.<\/p>\n

The Warrington<\/a> prop is under fire for attempting to drag St Helens player Sione Mata'utia to his feet following a tackle during their clash.<\/p>\n

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Mata'utia – also a former NRL star with the Knights – \ufeffwas taken to ground by Vaughan and then looked injured, band eing slow to get to his feet, prompting Vaughan to grab his shirt pull.<\/p>\n

\"Paul<\/p>\n

If found guilty and banned, Vaughan's Super League season will be over.<\/p>\n

\ufeffProminent long-time Australian commentator Andrew Voss said, "this charge is a gee up, surely" in response to the Vaughan vision on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n

It would be a major blow for the Wolves given Vaughan has been arguably the form forward of the Super League this season, having run the most metres in the competition.<\/p>\n

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\ufeffHe was a star in the NRL for a decade, playing 205 games for the Raiders, Dragons, and Bulldogs before heading overseas this year.<\/p>\n

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He also played six State of Origin games for the Blues, two Tests\ufeff for Australia and six for Italy.<\/p>\n

Vaughan courted controversy in 2021 when the Dragons sacked him for hosting an illegal house party during COVID-19, and reportedly for an earlier sexting scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe veteran prop was handed a lifeline by the Bulldogs but spent only one season at the kennel before departing last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former NRL star Paul Vaughan is facing a long suspension in the Super League for a bizarre incident. \ufeffThe 32-year-old middle forward was referred straight […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332145,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332142\/revisions\/332145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/332144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}