{"id":86955,"date":"2021-06-18T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=86955"},"modified":"2021-06-18T02:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T02:01:56","slug":"wallabies-enforcer-escapes-ban-after-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=86955","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies enforcer escapes ban after red card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wallabies enforcer Lachie Swinton is available to play against France next month after a SANZAAR judiciary surprisingly determined that his red card in Super Rugby trans-Tasman should not have been issued.<\/p>\n<p>Waratahs flanker Swinton was sent off by Australian referee on Saturday for a dangerous cleanout of Chiefs rival Lachlan Boshier at Brookvale Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Given Swinton&#x27;s priors &#8211; he was sent off on Test debut against the All Blacks last year &#8211; most observers were expecting a lengthy ban.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stan.com.au\/sport?utm_source=wwos&amp;utm_medium=partner&amp;utm_campaign=rugby_article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"The only place rugby fans can watch every match is Stan Sport. Start your free sport trial now!\"><strong><em>The only place rugby fans can watch every match is on Stan Sport. Start your free sport trial now!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"721c4c21-dfdd-439d-8790-f44c24586367\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/721c4c21-dfdd-439d-8790-f44c24586367\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"3000\" data-height=\"1688\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Normally in the wheel of suspensions it&#x27;s an automatic three weeks,&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/wallabies-squad-naming-preview-australian-rugby-news-lachie-swinton-izaia-perese\/89360a96-97f2-4c6e-96bb-8db748e58f63\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"former Wallaby Morgan Turinui said on Stan Sport.\">former Wallaby Morgan Turinui said on Stan Sport after the match.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;He won&#x27;t get the discount of three because of the red card he received for Australia, I wouldn&#x27;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If he does get found guilty he may have six weeks on the sideline.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But judicial committee chairman Stephen Hardy ruled that Swinton &quot;had made a genuine attempt to clean the defensive player away from the ball and that with mitigating factors, glancing contact was made with the defensive player&#x27;s head.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/rugby-world-cup-2027-andrew-slack-australia-hosting-bid-news\/ffa1b1f0-0673-48f3-a512-4130bb61a486\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Humble carpark start for global sports behemoth\"><em><strong>Humble carpark start for global sports behemoth<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/samu-kerevi-tokyo-olympics-rugby-sevens-wallabies-star-named-in-australia-squad\/f4b5f67d-ed6a-4e2d-ba3d-3f3d0ef9410f\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Wallabies star unleashed for Olympic sevens tilt\"><em><strong>Wallabies star unleashed for Olympic sevens tilt<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/andrew-slack-wallabies-opinion-australian-rugby-news-2021-france-series\/a8808412-023b-4270-a95e-bc7830b24b34\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Test great urges Rennie to avoid Cheika mistakes\"><em><strong>Test great urges Rennie to avoid Cheika mistakes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"9a7d6416-978f-4952-a395-83dab889ef7e\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/9a7d6416-978f-4952-a395-83dab889ef7e\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"4795\" data-height=\"2697\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hardy added that &quot;after careful analysis of World Rugby&#x27;s\u00a0head contact process\u00a0and\u00a0dangerous cleanout framework<em>,<\/em>\u00a0that this contact, while amounting to foul play, was not with a sufficient degree of danger to warrant a red card.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Wallabies coach Dave Rennie downplayed the severity of Swinton&#x27;s foul play.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;In the context of the other red and yellow cards given in the last few weeks, it&#x27;s on the lower end of the scale,&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/wallabies-squad-winners-and-losers-lachie-swinton-red-card-news-dave-rennie\/490b37fc-fd3f-4aca-b40e-92baa64dbb87\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Rennie argued on Stan Sport.\">Rennie argued on Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;He certainly didn&#x27;t have a big run up in and he&#x27;s just trying to get in.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"39c213e4-cfac-42e7-abd8-12a732486604\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/39c213e4-cfac-42e7-abd8-12a732486604\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"5169\" data-height=\"2908\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I spoke to Lachie Boshier today who said he didn&#x27;t even notice that he&#x27;d been smacked on the jaw, so that probably puts it in context.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Rennie said some head contact was inevitable in rugby and felt a &quot;yellow card would have been appropriate.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He needs to be more accurate, we don&#x27;t want him to lose that aggressive edge.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomVinicombe\/status\/1405643466571358214?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomVinicombe\/status\/1405643466571358214?s=20<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RugbyReg\/status\/1405625820182323206?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RugbyReg\/status\/1405625820182323206?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Wallabies enforcer Lachie Swinton is available to play against France next month after a SANZAAR judiciary surprisingly determined that his red card in Super Rugby <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=86955\" title=\"Wallabies enforcer escapes ban after red card\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/86955"}],"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=86955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86957,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86955\/revisions\/86957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}