{"id":368604,"date":"2026-04-07T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:24:08","slug":"maa-nonu-banned-for-three-weeks-for-dangerous-tackle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368604\/","title":{"rendered":"Ma\u2019a Nonu banned for three weeks for \u2018dangerous\u2019 tackle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Toulon’s Ma’a Nonu has been suspended for three weeks.
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All Blacks great Ma\u2019a Nonu has been suspended for three weeks after a \u201cdangerous\u201d tackle in the Champions Cup, European rugby\u2019s governing body said today.<\/p>\n

\n Toulon centre Nonu, who played more than 100 times for the All Blacks, was shown a yellow card in Sunday\u2019s narrow 28-27 last 16 victory
\n over South Africans Stormers for a high tackle on Wandisile Simelane.\n <\/p>\n

He was cited after the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cNonu accepted that he had committed an act of foul play that warranted a red card,\u201d the EPCR said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe (disciplinary) committee upheld the citing complaint, finding that Nonu had tackled Simelane in a dangerous manner and determined that the offending was at the mid-range of World Rugby\u2019s sanctions and six weeks was selected as the appropriate entry point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 7 Apr, 2026 09:31 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,26977,1558,8136,7800,31100,10542,8452,6446,2082,96407,16773,46597,111,139,46598,69,53902,3048,213,18834,40865,1529,1865,4518],"class_list":{"0":"post-368604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-banned","10":"tag-been","11":"tag-blacks","12":"tag-body","13":"tag-champions","14":"tag-cup","15":"tag-dangerous","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-for","18":"tag-governing","19":"tag-great","20":"tag-maa","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nonu","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-rugbys","26":"tag-said","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-suspended","29":"tag-tackle","30":"tag-three","31":"tag-today","32":"tag-weeks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}