{"id":566502,"date":"2026-05-04T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566502\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:59:10","slug":"wigan-warriors-ethan-havard-to-miss-challenge-cup-clash-after-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566502\/","title":{"rendered":"Wigan Warriors: Ethan Havard to miss Challenge Cup clash after ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wigan forward Ethan Havard will miss Saturday&#8217;s Challenge Cup semi-final against St Helens after being given a retrospective ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following a meeting of the Match Review Panel, Harvard was punished for head contact in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/crepdyl1xx1o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">38-14 win over Bradford Bulls<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The offence resulted in a Grade B charge and three penalty points on his record, taking his total to 6.5, just over the threshold for a ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Havard has featured in all but one of Wigan&#8217;s 10 Super League matches this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Bradford&#8217;s Mitchell Soutar has been handed a two-match ban for a dangerous lift in the same match. His points total instantly jumped to 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wigan are currently fifth in the Super League table, four points adrift of leaders Leeds Rhinos, while the Bulls are 11th on six points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan forward Ethan Havard will miss Saturday&#8217;s Challenge Cup semi-final against St Helens after being given a retrospective&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-566502","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\/566502","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=566502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}