Saracens have confirmed that a player has been stood down with immediate effect following an incident over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The Gallagher PREM club released a statement on Monday (October 12), revealing that a member of their Men’s Senior Academy is now the subject of an internal investigation.<\/p>\n
The incident took place in St Albans on Saturday evening, with the club moving quickly to remove the player from all duties.<\/p>\n
For now, Saracens are keeping their cards close to their chest.<\/p>\n
The player’s identity has not been revealed, while the circumstances surrounding the incident remain unclear.<\/p>\n
UPDATE:Saracens release official statementIn a statement published on their official website<\/a>, Saracens confirmed:<\/p>\n “Saracens is aware of an incident involving a member of the Men’s Senior Academy in St Albans on the evening of Saturday 10 October.”<\/p>\n The club added that the player had been stood down immediately while a thorough internal investigation takes place to establish the facts.<\/p>\n Saracens also stressed that everyone representing the club is expected to meet the highest standards of conduct.<\/p>\n No further comment will be made until the investigation concludes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Difficult timing for Saracens<\/p>\n The announcement comes just 48 hours after Saracens secured an impressive 30-7 victory over Bristol Bears.<\/p>\n England captain Maro Itoje starred as the north London outfit bounced back in style, with RUCK’s player ratings<\/a> highlighting several standout performances.It is another off-field development for the club, whose new coaching setup was recently hit with a fine<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, there is no suggestion that the matters are connected.<\/p>\n The identity of the academy player remains undisclosed, and being stood down does not establish any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saracens have confirmed that a player has been stood down with immediate effect following an incident over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[261246,5903,118921,262749,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-800599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-prem-rugby-news","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-news","tag-saracens-rugby-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800599","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=800599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}