{"id":183317,"date":"2025-10-07T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/183317\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:04:09","slug":"tip-tackle-proves-costly-for-sarries-star-nathan-michelow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/183317\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip tackle proves costly for Sarries star Nathan Michelow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/england\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> U20 captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/nathan-michelow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Michelow<\/a> has received a four-game ban and will miss the remainder of the first block of Gallagher PREM matches.<\/p>\n<p>Flanker Michelow, 21, was handed the PREM\u2019s first-ever 20-minute red card for a tip tackle on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/george-mcguigan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George McGuigan<\/a> inside the opening minutes of Saracens\u2019 39-17 win at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/newcastle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle<\/a> in round one.<\/p>\n<p>Saracens\u2019 win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/bristol\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bristol<\/a> in round two has been included in the ban, meaning he will sit out three further games \u2013 the PREM clashes against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/harlequins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harlequins<\/a> on 12 October, Sale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/sharks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharks<\/a> on 18 October and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/northampton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northampton<\/a> on 24 October.<\/p>\n<p>After the Saints game, the PREM takes a break until the end of next month, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/saracens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saracens<\/a> host defending champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/bath\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bath<\/a> at the StoneX on Sunday, 30 November.<\/p>\n<p>Michelow hadn\u2019t received a card of any colour in 25 previous appearances for Saracens and his good disciplinary record was taken into consideration by the independent disciplinary panel.<\/p>\n<p>However, they upheld the charge, which Michelow had denied, that he was guilty of lifting and\/or dropping\/driving an opponent, contrary to World Rugby Law 9.18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England U20 captain Nathan Michelow has received a four-game ban and will miss the remainder of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-183317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}