{"id":433507,"date":"2026-01-24T02:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/433507\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:27:09","slug":"nsw-waratahs-suspend-miles-amatosero-over-training-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/433507\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW Waratahs suspend Miles Amatosero over training incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The NSW Waratahs have suspended Miles Amatosero after the lock was involved in an incident during training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Amatosero was handed a four match ban, which can be reduced to two, clearing him to play in the Super Rugby Pacific opener against the Queensland Reds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Watch every second of Super Rugby Pacific live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/rugby-union\/waratah-faces-suspension-after-fight-club-erupts-at-pre-season-training-20260120-p5nvgc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">The Sydney Morning Herald <\/a>reported Amatasero and new recruit Angus Scott-Young got into a skirmish during pre-season training, leaving Scott-Young with a fractured eye-socket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">\u201cRugby Australia and the NSW Waratahs confirm that Miles Amatosero has been suspended for four games following a formal review into a training ground incident earlier this month,\u201d a statement said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">\u201cAmatosero can reduce his suspension to two games upon successful completion of counselling and education programs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;He will miss the Waratahs\u2019 upcoming trial matches against the Reds and Brumbies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Waratahs will play trial games against Queensland on January 31 and the Brumbies on February 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Amatosero emerged as one of the Waratahs&#8217; best during their narrow loss to the British &amp; Irish Lions, looking to secure a starting spot amid the arrivals of new recruits Matt Philip and Angus Blyth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Scott-Young joined the club in December after departing from English Premiership club Northampton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The former Red has played 69 Super Rugby games, debuting in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NSW Waratahs have suspended Miles Amatosero after the lock was involved in an incident during training. Amatosero&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,32951,760,85],"class_list":["post-433507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nsw-waratahs","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433507","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=433507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}