Wakefield Trinity will be without Jazz Tevaga for tonight’s game against Wigan Warriors, following his one-match suspension picked up against St Helens last week.

Tevaga was hit with his eighth charge of 2026, but his first since June, after a late hit on Tristan Sailor was picked up by the Match Review Panel.

The charge itself was only a Grade B, but due to points accrued across the season already, he will have to sit out this week after going over the threshold for a one-match ban to occur.

With the Samona international struggling to stay on the right side of the law, it has forced Wakefield boss Daryl Powell to take Tevaga to one side and have a chat with him about how he uses his aggression.

Asked about Tevaga’s discipline in this week’s press conference, Powell said: “Some players play on the edge, don’t they? Me and Jazz have had a couple of chats on that.

“He’s just got to find the right side of the line. He does so many positive things for us. You don’t want him to take those away by penalties or getting sin-binned.

“I think that’s the challenge for Jazz, to just tidy himself up a little bit, keep the valuable things that he does for us, which are significant, and just settle down a little bit with his discipline.

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“Obviously, we don’t want him suspended. We want him on the field, so that’s important.”

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Luckily for Tevaga, all penalty points will be temporarily wiped for the play-offs, meaning that he will head into the finals on a clean slate, as will everyone else.

For Powell, it means that his key man is at much less risk of a ban in those big games, but consistency and being able to get close to the line without overstepping is the 30-year-old’s challenge now.

“That’s where it’s do or die, and you’ve got to win,” Powell said. “I’m not a future teller, so I don’t know what will happen there.

“We work hard as a group, Jazz will get back on track, and he’ll be valuable for us.”