{"id":521066,"date":"2026-06-27T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521066\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:45:12","slug":"saracens-totoa-auvaas-behaviour-in-nightclub-incident-criticised-by-team-mate-jamie-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521066\/","title":{"rendered":"Saracens: Totoa Auvaa’s behaviour in nightclub incident criticised by team-mate Jamie George"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamie George has criticised his Saracens’ team-mate Totoa Auvaa’s “unacceptable” behaviour after the Samoan was involved in a nightclub incident with England cricket captain Ben Stokes and bowler Gus Atkinson.<\/p>\n

Stand-in England rugby captain George<\/a>, who has 110 caps, said the academy player is like “a rabbit in the headlights in London” and the 21-year-old “doesn’t know right from wrong” but insisted he was a “good kid”.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Saracens said forward Auvaa would not face any formal sanctions <\/a>following their own investigation into the incident on 8 June.<\/p>\n

They said while the incident was “regrettable for all parties involved” the Prem Rugby club “remains supportive of the player”.<\/p>\n

England cricket captain Stokes and bowler Atkinson breached their team’s midnight curfew when they were out celebrating victory in the first Test earlier this month.<\/p>\n

They were present when a member of England’s security staff was left bloodied and in need of medical attention when he was struck by Auvaa.<\/p>\n

“He’s a young kid who has only left Samoa once,” George, 35, was quoted as saying by The Times and The Telegraph.<\/p>\n

“He is immature. He is a rabbit in the headlights in London. He’s a good kid, but he’s got it wrong. There’s no disputing that. But we need to make sure that we establish that sort of behaviour is unacceptable.<\/p>\n

“There’s also a bit of me that thinks we’ve got to look after him because he doesn’t know right from wrong at the minute.<\/p>\n

“We’ll look after him. We will make sure that he’s got role models around him.”<\/p>\n

Stokes and Atkinson were made unavailable for England’s second Test defeat pending an inquiry into events.<\/p>\n

A disciplinary hearing by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) found Stokes and Atkinson had breached “contractual obligations” but were blameless for “violent conduct” and the pair were given a written warning with no further action.<\/a><\/p>\n

A separate inquiry by the Cricket Regulator found there was no case to answer because of insufficient evidence.<\/p>\n

“No blame should be attached to the players for violent conduct at the nightclub,” said the ECB.<\/p>\n

“Stokes was not involved in the altercation and did not witness either incident.<\/p>\n

“The evidence the ECB has seen demonstrates that Atkinson was the victim of unprovoked attacks and did not retaliate on either occasion.”<\/p>\n

Saracens criticised the ECB for not involving them in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie George has criticised his Saracens’ team-mate Totoa Auvaa’s “unacceptable” behaviour after the Samoan was involved in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-521066","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\/521066","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=521066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}