South Sydney’s Tyrone Munro faces being sidelined for at least the start of next season, after being stood down by the NRL while facing domestic violence charges.<\/p>\n
Munro is due to face Burwood Local Court on Thursday, after being charged earlier this month with a number of offences relating to an alleged incident in April.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old’s lawyer has indicated he plans to fight the charges.<\/p>\n
The NRL confirmed on Tuesday that Munro would be sidelined under the game’s no-fault stand-down policy, as part of head office’s discretionary powers.<\/p>\n
It means the winger will not be able to play in the NRL or any of its competitions until at least after the court case has concluded.<\/p>\n
Tyrone Munro of the Rabbitohs scores a try against the Storm.\u00a0Cameron Spencer\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
“The decision should in no way be interpreted as a view on the innocence or guilt of the player,” the NRL said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Munro was charged earlier this month after a woman reported she’d allegedly been assaulted by her partner.<\/p>\n
He was subsequently charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault and stalking or intimidation with intent to cause fear of physical or mental harm.<\/p>\n
Under the NRL’s rules, any player charged with an offence that carries a maximum jail term of more than 11 years is automatically stood down.<\/p>\n
CEO Andrew Abdo then has the power to invoke the rule for players charged with other offences, usually reserved for matters of violence against women.<\/p>\n
While Munro’s first court appearance is scheduled for Thursday, the matter has the potential to drag on for well beyond that.<\/p>\n
Munro scored seven tries in 12 games for South Sydney this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Sydney’s Tyrone Munro faces being sidelined for at least the start of next season, after being stood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-245448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}