{"id":794692,"date":"2026-10-07T09:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794692\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:50:18","slug":"sale-sharks-enforcer-jacques-vermeulen-learns-his-fate-after-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794692\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale Sharks enforcer Jacques Vermeulen learns his fate after red card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Published: 17 hours ago | 6 October 2026 11:57 EDT
Updated: 17 hours ago | 6 October 2026 12:14 EDT <\/p>\n

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Jacques Vermeulen of Sale Sharks during the Gallagher Premiership match between Gloucester and Sale Sharks at Kingsholm Stadium in Gloucester, United Kingdom, on May 8, 2026. (Photo by Alex Williamson\/News Images\/NurPhoto via Getty Images) \"Google <\/a> <\/p>\n

Sale Sharks<\/a> back rower Jacques Vermeulen has been handed a four-match ban after being given a 20-minute red card during Sunday\u2019s hard-fought 21-17 win over Saracens<\/a> at the StoneX Stadium.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old made contact with the head of Saracens scrum-half Tomos Williams in the 18th minute as he tried to clear out a ruck, and after a TMO intervention, was sent off to leave Sharks with 13 men, following Alex Lozowski\u2019s earlier sin-binning for a high shot on Alfie Barbeary.<\/p>\n

His hearing today was heard by an independent panel chaired by Daniel Gore, sitting with Mick McArdle and former Harlequins<\/a> lock Olly Kohn.<\/p>\n

Vermeulen accepted the charge and received a four-match ban, with no reduction, due to the fact he was charged for a dangerous tackle in the 2024\/25 season and has already been to \u2018tackle school\u2019.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll now miss this weekend\u2019s home fixture against Harlequins, the following week\u2019s visit of Glasgow<\/a> in the Champions Cup and trips to Newcastle<\/a> and Bath<\/a> in the Gallagher PREM.<\/p>\n

Matches missed:<\/p>\n

11.10.2026 v Harlequins
17.10.2026 v Glasgow Warriors (EPCR)
23.10.2020 v Newcastle Red Bulls
31.10.2026 v Bath Rugby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 17 hours ago | 6 October 2026 11:57 EDT Updated: 17 hours ago | 6 October 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-794692","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\/794692","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=794692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}