NRL stars Jordan Rapana and Wade Graham will each spend stints on the sidelines after a pair of excessive pictures throughout the opening spherical of the season.
Canberra winger Rapana one way or the other averted punishment from the referee when he collected Scott Drinkwater throughout the Raiders’ conflict with the Cowboys on Saturday.
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Drinkwater returned a Raiders kick deep inside his personal half within the 27th minute of the match when Rapana got here thundering the opposite manner.
The Raiders participant wildly collected Drinkwater with a harmful hit, having made no clear try to finish a authorized sort out.
As a substitute, he cleaned up the Cowboys star along with his shoulder, sending him thundering into the bottom. Not carried out but, Rapana then drove himself into the bottom and on to the weak Drinkwater with one other excessive shot.
Rapana was charged with a grade one offense on Sunday and, with two earlier offenses below his belt already, is taking a look at a three-game ban with an early plea.
If he fights the cost and does so unsuccessfully, he’ll be slapped with a four-game ban.
Throughout Cronulla’s conflict with South Sydney on Saturday, Graham was despatched to the sin bin for a excessive shot on Rabbitohs prop Davvy Moale.
The referee deemed that Graham had “left the bottom and made contact with the top” as commentator Dan Ginnane referred to as it a “automotive crash” sort out.
Graham was charged with a grade one reckless excessive sort out.
Though it was solely his first offense, Graham, like Rapana, is dealing with three matches on the sidelines with an early plea.
He too would have an additional recreation tacked onto the suspension if he challenged the cost unsuccessfully.
