{"id":175157,"date":"2025-12-04T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175157\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:04:06","slug":"eben-etzebeth-banned-for-12-weeks-over-eye-gouge-against-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175157\/","title":{"rendered":"Eben Etzebeth banned for 12 weeks over eye-gouge against Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An independent disciplinary panel met on Tuesday, but took an extra 24 hours deliberation to decide on a sanction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Led by Christopher Quinlan KC, the panel found that contact with the eye was intentional and a &#8220;mid-range&#8221; entry point of 18 weeks was appropriate. Mitigating factors including the player&#8217;s previous record meant that was reduced to 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Etzebeth was the third South African forward to be shown a red card in four matches this autumn after Franco Mostert, against Italy, and Lood de Jaeger against France. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mostert&#8217;s red was later rescinded by a disciplinary panel and downgraded to a yellow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World Rugby&#8217;s sanctions for eye-gouging &#8211; described as &#8220;intentional contact with the eyes&#8221; &#8211; run from a ban ranging from 12 weeks at the low end, to a maximum of four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bans for &#8220;reckless contact with the eyes&#8221; can range from six weeks to four years. Bans for &#8220;contact with the eye area&#8221; range from four weeks to one year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An independent disciplinary panel met on Tuesday, but took an extra 24 hours deliberation to decide on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-175157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}