{"id":404501,"date":"2026-02-02T21:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404501\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:36:10","slug":"leigh-leopards-star-charged-after-warrington-wolves-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404501\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh Leopards star charged after Warrington Wolves friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The former Wire outside-back was sin-binned during the game at The Halliwell Jones Stadium and as a result, he has been handed disciplinary points by the RFL\u2019s Match Review Panel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Towards the end of the first half, Leigh full-back Bailey Hodgson raced to keep a long Marc Sneyd kick in play but his efforts were deemed unsuccessful by the officials to hand Warrington an attacking set.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the aftermath, however, referee Tom Grant brandished a yellow card in Brand\u2019s direction for dissent, meaning the Leopards were forced to finish the half a man light with Jake Thewlis scoring Wire\u2019s second try during this period.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Now, Brand has been hit with a Grade B charge of disputing a decision and had three penalty points added to his 2026 record \u2013 still below the threshold to trigger a suspension \u2013 as well as picking up a fine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Leigh hooker Edwin Ipape faces no further action, however, for either of the two challenges on Wire full-back Cai Taylor-Wray that saw him penalised.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Papua New Guinea international was first pulled up for a high tackle on the youngster before later being penalised for a dangerous lift, but the Match Review Panel have deemed both incidents unworthy of further review.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  No Warrington players have been charged following their 16-12 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Wire outside-back was sin-binned during the game at The Halliwell Jones Stadium and as a result,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-404501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404501","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=404501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}