{"id":337648,"date":"2025-12-09T18:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337648\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:06:14","slug":"deian-gwynne-gloucester-back-row-banned-for-making-eye-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337648\/","title":{"rendered":"Deian Gwynne: Gloucester back row banned for making eye contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucester back row Deian Gwynne has been banned for three weeks for making eye contact with Castres&#8217; Florent Vanverberghe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gwynne was shown a yellow card for the incident in the 48th minute of Gloucester&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c9w7ynj0lq8o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Champions Cup win<\/a> against the French side on Saturday and was cited after the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 19-year-old was found to have &#8220;recklessly made contact with the eye of an opponent&#8221; by the independent disciplinary commission. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However the incident was found to be at the &#8220;low end&#8221; of World Rugby&#8217;s sanctions for foul play and a ban of six weeks &#8211; reduced by 50% for Gwynne&#8217;s clear record, acceptance of the charge and inexperience &#8211; was given. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucester back row Deian Gwynne has been banned for three weeks for making eye contact with Castres&#8217; Florent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-337648","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\/337648","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=337648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}