{"id":369255,"date":"2024-02-20T10:29:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=369255"},"modified":"2024-02-20T12:02:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T12:02:17","slug":"warriors-rookie-challenges-lengthy-ban-for-sickening-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=369255","title":{"rendered":"Warriors rookie challenges lengthy ban for sickening hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATED:<\/strong> \ufeffW\ufeffarriors<\/a> rookie Zyon Maiu'u had his monster ban for his hit on Wests Tigers<\/a> recruit Declan Casey halved by the NRL Judiciary on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, the NRL slapped Maiu'u with a grade two reckless high tackle charge and offered the prop a four-game ban.<\/p>\n

But at the NRL Judiciary, Maiu'u successfully argued his result down to a grade three careless high tackle \u2014 his suspension downgraded to two matches.<\/p>\n

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In the first half of Sunday's trial match against the Tigers, Maiu'u made direct contact with the head of Casey who was knocked out from the force.<\/p>\n

A significant delay followed \ufeffthe incident with Casey taken off the field in Christchurch in a medicab.<\/p>\n

After Casey was taken from the field, referee Chris Sutton was left with no choice but to send off Maiu'u, who is yet to make his first-grade debut.<\/p>\n

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Although the decision seemed to come as a surprise to captain Marcelo Montoya.<\/p>\n

"Sent off? Sent off?" he replied.<\/p>\n

Despite Montoya's confusion, rugby league great Corey Parker<\/a> believed the referee handled it well.<\/p>\n

"It's been a bit of a rule over the last couple of seasons but explained very well there," he said on Fox League.<\/p>\n

"Significant force, direct to the head … he's just overcooked it there, our thoughts with Declan Casey."<\/p>\n

With a one-man advantage, the Tigers ended the first half leading 12-6.<\/p>\n

Alex Seyfarth and Aidan Sezer were the try-scorers, while Jacob Laban went over for the Warriors.<\/p>\n

The indiscretions weren't \ufeffjust from Maiu'u either, with Tigers rookie Samuela Fainu put on report for a high shot in the dying minutes of the first half.<\/p>\n

Only a minute into the second half, Fainu was then sin-binned for another high shot. \ufeff<\/p>\n

He was slapped with a grade one careless high tackle charge and fined $1000 for a first offence.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Despite a fightback from the Warriors after the break, the Tigers went on to win the game 18-16.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Titans forward Klese Haas\ufeff was also fined $1000 for a grade one contrary conduct charge for pulling the hair of Dolphins utility Gerome Burns.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATED: \ufeffW\ufeffarriors rookie Zyon Maiu'u had his monster ban for his hit on Wests Tigers recruit Declan Casey halved by the NRL Judiciary on Tuesday […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368638,"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\/369255"}],"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=369255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369257,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369255\/revisions\/369257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/368638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}