{"id":278459,"date":"2025-11-11T21:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278459\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:25:09","slug":"lood-de-jager-suspended-for-remainder-of-springboks-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278459\/","title":{"rendered":"Lood de Jager suspended for remainder of Springboks\u2019 tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lood de Jager will miss the remainder of the Springboks\u2019 Quilter Nations Series contests due to a four-game suspension, which was issued as a result of his red card against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/france\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/rugby-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby World Cup<\/a> winner was sent from the field in the 38th minute of his side\u2019s heavyweight bout with France in Paris, receiving a permanent red card for an act of foul play.<\/p>\n<p>An independent Disciplinary Committee upheld the permanent red card decision on Tuesday, and when determining an appropriate ban period, deemed the indiscretion worthy of the mid-range entry point of six weeks. That was then reduced to four weeks, after considering the mitigating factors.<\/p>\n<p>De Jager can further reduce the ban period to three matches by completing World Rugby\u2019s Coaching Intervention Programme. That would ensure his availability for Panasonic Wild Knights\u2019 game against the reigning League One champions, Toshiba Brave Lupus, on December 14.<\/p>\n<p>The full suspension would cover the following matches:<\/p>\n<p>15 November 2025 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/italy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Italy<\/a> vs South Africa, Quilter Nations Series22 November 2025\u00a0 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/ireland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a> vs South Africa, Quilter Nations Series29 November 2025\u00a0 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/wales\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a> vs South Africa, Quilter Nations Series14 December 2025 \u2013 Wild Knights v Toshiba Brave Lupus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/japan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a> League One *<\/p>\n<p>The Springboks didn\u2019t let de Jager\u2019s absence stand between them and a win at Stade de France, and will lean on their famous forward pack depth to overcome his absence in the three remaining Tests of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lood de Jager will miss the remainder of the Springboks\u2019 Quilter Nations Series contests due to a four-game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-278459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278459","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=278459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}