{"id":529452,"date":"2026-04-14T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529452\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:47:09","slug":"wigan-warriors-duo-and-wakefield-trinity-star-banned-as-6-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529452\/","title":{"rendered":"Wigan Warriors duo and Wakefield Trinity star banned as 6 charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wigan Warriors pair Harry Smith and Sam Walters have both been banned for three games apiece, with Wakefield Trinity star Jazz Tevaga landing a two-match ban following their feisty Challenge Cup quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Peet\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/club\/wigan-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warriors<\/a> emerged victorious in a cup thriller at Belle Vue on Sunday afternoon, winning 26-22 to tee up a semi-final against rivals St Helens next month.<\/p>\n<p>But now, unless there is a successful appeal, both Smith and Walters will be absent until that semi-final comes around having each landed a three-game suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Half-back Smith has received 18 penalty points from the Match Review Panel (MRP) for making contact with a player who is\/may be injured, that being Tevaga.<\/p>\n<p>The off-season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/club\/wakefield-trinity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wakefield<\/a> recruit has himself copped a two-match ban having been pinged for two offences, with the main one being his kick out on Liam Marshall towards the end of the first half which only brought a yellow card from referee Liam Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Across his two offences, with the other being late contact on the passer, Tevaga took his total points tally for the year up to 13.25.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Smith\u2019s team-mate Walters has also landed 18 penalty points and a three-match ban for a headbutt he planted on an opponent during a scuffle in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Wigan and Wakefield are entitled to appeal any of the disciplinary charges they see fit, but if they do so and are unsuccessful, they run the risk of a ban being extended.<\/p>\n<p>Want more Love Rugby League? Add us as a <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=loverugbyleague.com\" target=\"_blank\">preferred source on Google<\/a> and ensure you never miss our exclusives and breaking news!<\/p>\n<p>Wigan duo and Wakefield star banned as six charged by Match Review Panel<\/p>\n<p>Six players have been charged in total by the MRP following the weekend\u2019s Challenge Cup quarter-final action, but the other three were all \u2018Grade A Late Contact on Passer\u2019, receiving one penalty point apiece.<\/p>\n<p>The trio consist of Hull KR\u2019s Peta Hiku alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/tag\/catalans-dragons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catalans<\/a> pair Romain Navarrete and Chris Satae.<\/p>\n<p>Hiku picked up his penalty points during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/club\/hull-kr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Robins<\/a>\u2018 48-10 thrashing of York Knights at Craven Park on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Navarrete and Satae meanwhile committed their offences during the Dragons\u2019 36-4 defeat at St Helens on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The one point received was not enough for any of the three to tick over the six-point barrier which results in a suspension, so all will be available for their teams\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/super-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super League<\/a> games this week.<\/p>\n<p>A full round-up of all of this week\u2019s charges can be seen below\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Jazz Tevaga (Wakefield) \u2013 Grade A Late Contact on Passer (1 point) \u2013 Total points \u2013 2 \u2013 Fine<br \/>\nJazz Tevaga (Wakefield) \u2013 Grade D Strikes: Kicks (12 points) \u2013 Total points \u2013 13.25 \u2013 Two-match ban<br \/>\nHarry Smith (Wigan) \u2013 Grade E Unnecessary Contact with Player who is\/may be injured (18 points) \u2013 Total points \u2013 18 \u2013 Three-match ban<br \/>\nSam Walters (Wigan) \u2013 Grade E Strikes: Headbutting (18 points) \u2013 Total points \u2013 18 \u2013 Three-match ban<br \/>\nPeta Hiku (Hull KR) \u2013 Grade A Late Contact on Passer (1 point) \u2013 Total points: 1.75 \u2013 No Further Action<br \/>\nRomain Navarrete (Catalans) \u2013 Grade A Late Contact on Passer (1 point) \u2013 Total points \u2013 1.75 \u2013 No Further Action<br \/>\nChris Satae (Catalans) \u2013 Grade A Late Contact on Passer (1 point) \u2013 Total points: 2.25 \u2013 No Further Action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Warriors pair Harry Smith and Sam Walters have both been banned for three games apiece, with Wakefield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-529452","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\/529452","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=529452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}