{"id":778612,"date":"2026-09-22T06:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T06:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778612\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T06:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T06:36:14","slug":"wakefields-emre-guler-and-hull-krs-peta-hiku-banned-for-punching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778612\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakefield&#8217;s Emre Guler and Hull KR&#8217;s Peta Hiku banned for punching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wakefield Trinity prop Emre Guler and Hull KR centre Peta Hiku have been given two-game bans punching incidents in their respective Super League play-off eliminator ties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guler was sent off in the second half of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c6rer200vegwo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wakefield&#8217;s win against Leigh<\/a> on Friday for punching Owen Trout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His ban &#8211; which comes following just his fourth game for Trinity after joining from NRL side St George Illawarra Dragons &#8211; means he will not be able to play in the Super League Grand Final should they beat Wigan Warriors on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile Hiku receives his ban having made contact with the face of Warrington&#8217;s George Williams in KR&#8217;s defeat on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both players have also been fined in addition to their suspensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wakefield Trinity prop Emre Guler and Hull KR centre Peta Hiku have been given two-game bans punching incidents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-778612","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\/778612","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=778612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}