{"id":618427,"date":"2026-06-03T06:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618427\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:42:19","slug":"sam-walters-wigan-warriors-forward-banned-for-seven-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618427\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Walters: Wigan Warriors forward banned for seven games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Walters has received a seven-match ban following his red card late in Wigan Warriors&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cq6p3l576zdo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Challenge Cup final win<\/a> over Hull Kingston Rovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cherry and Whites forward became the first man since 1993 to be dismissed in  the showpiece after his lift tackle on Robins hooker Bill Leyland was deemed dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walters&#8217; suspension comes less than two months after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/ce8lnngn0rvo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">handed a three-match ban<\/a> and 18 penalty points for a headbutting offence during Wigan&#8217;s quarter-final win over Wakefield Trinity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Serving that ban reduced the number of penalty points to 4.5 but the Rugby Football League match review panel has imposed a 35-point penalty for the dangerous tackle on Leyland as well as fining Walters an unspecified amount.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warriors half-back Harry Smith has also landed a one-match suspension for making head contact with Robins winger Tom Davies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Walters has received a seven-match ban following his red card late in Wigan Warriors&#8217; Challenge Cup final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-618427","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\/618427","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=618427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}