Wigan Warriors will be without Ethan Havard for the Challenge Cup semi-final after receiving a suspension from Match Review Panel.<\/p>\n
Love Rugby League has learned that Havard has received a Grade B charge, with the points coming from it resulting in him receiving a one-match suspension as a consequence of the disciplinary points already on his record. Havard had 3.5 points on his record, with a Grade B charge resulting in an addition three points. Six points is the threshold for a one-match suspension.<\/p>\n
It is a massive blow for the Warriors, who will be able to recall both Harry Smith and Sam Walters for their clash with arch rivals St Helens after serving three-match suspensions picked up last month.<\/p>\n
Wigan will head into the contest without Havard, Liam Marshall and Bevan French, with the latter two unavailable due to long-term hamstring injuries.<\/p>\n
They take on a Saints side in great form who have just lost since round one, though they have suffered a selection blow heading into the contest too, with Kyle Feldt failing a head injury assessment and therefore stood down.<\/p>\n
Havard has cemented himself as a regular starter in Matt Peet\u2019s side, laying the platform through the middle alongside Luke Thompson and Brad O\u2019Neill. Havard was part of England\u2019s Ashes squad in the Autumn.<\/p>\n
The full findings of the Match Review Panel are set to be revealed this afternoon, with Leeds winger Maika Sivo expected to receive a charge for the tackle that saw him sin-binned in the Rhinos\u2019 win over Wakefield Trinity on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Wigan do have the right to appeal the charge if they wish to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Warriors will be without Ethan Havard for the Challenge Cup semi-final after receiving a suspension from Match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-565811","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\/565811","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=565811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}