Group 11’s judiciary committee has taken a hard line at its first hearing for the season after Nick Wilson (CYMS) and Kinni Tanaulucava (Macquarie) were landed with three-game suspensions and fined $100 on Thursday night.
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The two props were sent from the field by referee Troy Warner after five minutes of play in the first game of the premiership last Saturday night.
The Raiders were attacking the CYMS line at the time when big centre Jonni Macilai stepped back inside and was caught high by CYMS prop Wilson.
Macilai’s team-mate Tanaulucava reacted immediately and put Wilson on the ground, which resulted in the referee sending that player off.
Wilson soon followed and both sides were down to 12 men.
In the wash-up CYMS won the game 40-34 and while Wilson stated his case at the judiciary meeting held at Narromine both players were found guilty as charged.
Judiciary chairman Ray Neilson (Parkes) presided over the meeting with panel members Tony Barlow (Narromine) and Brent Conner (Wellington).
The suspensions mean that Wilson will miss tomorrow’s clash with Nyngan at No.1 Oval and games against Forbes and Wellington.
Kinni, on the other hand, will watch today’s clash with Parkes at Parkes and also sit out round 3-4 games against Cobar and Narromine.
Meanwhile, Raiders captain-coach Matt Stott will demand a more disciplined and clinical performance from his players against Parkes today.
Mistakes and lack of concentration brought them undone against CYMS and the same attitude will be identified by what should be a very strong Parkes side led by new captain-coach Pat Rosser.
Rosser, Josh Adams, Ben Johns, Dennis Moran, Epi Neiyoko and Eroni Tara were all selected in the Group 11 side for the Country Championships.
Hooker Matt Lane will be missing but the side won’t be disadvantaged with talented Josh Merritt coming in. Laurence Fogg will play in the second-row for Kinni.
In this other games in round 2 of Group 11 Wellington host Forbes and Cobar travel down to Narromine - both games on tomorrow.