{"id":327920,"date":"2025-12-04T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327920\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T20:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:28:07","slug":"eben-etzebeth-south-africa-lock-banned-for-12-weeks-for-eye-gouge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327920\/","title":{"rendered":"Eben Etzebeth: South Africa lock banned for 12 weeks for eye gouge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Eben Etzebeth was sent off towards the end of South Africa&#8217;s match against Wales.\u00a0Dan Mullan\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>South Africa lock Eben Etzebeth has been banned for 12 weeks for his eye gouge against Wales on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>That ban is on the lower end of punishments, with a Disciplinary Committee reducing the ban from the 18-week entry point.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa thrashed Wales 73-0 at the weekend, though the win was marred by Etzebeth being send off in the final minute for the incident with Alex Mann.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what I can say that isn&#8217;t controversial,&#8221; coach Rassie Erasmus said. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t look good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a justified red card. It&#8217;s definitely not the way we&#8217;d have liked to have ended the game. The optics weren&#8217;t great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Information from ESPN Argentina and James Olley contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eben Etzebeth was sent off towards the end of South Africa&#8217;s match against Wales.\u00a0Dan Mullan\/Getty Images South Africa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-327920","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\/327920","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=327920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}