New Zealand’s Lienert-Brown to miss 2 Rugby Championship matches for dangerous tackle

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Middle Anton Lienert-Brown will miss the New Zealand All Blacks’ first two matches on this 12 months’s Rugby Championships after being suspended for 3 weeks for a harmful sort out.

Lienert-Brown was proven a yellow card after a head conflict with Dallas McLeod within the tenth minute of Saturday’s Tremendous Rugby Pacific closing between the Chiefs and Crusaders.

A SANZAAR foul play evaluation committee later decided the offense merited a purple card and on Tuesday imposed the three-week suspension which guidelines Lienert-Brown out of New Zealand’s matches in opposition to Argentina on July 9 and South Africa on July 15.

Lienert-Brown may also have missed the All Blacks’ first Bledisloe Cup check in opposition to Australia in Melbourne. However he’ll obtain a one-week discount in suspension if he completes a World Rugby Teaching Intervention Program.

The judicial committee chaired by Michael Heron discovered “the act of foul play was reckless with direct head-to-head contact made, excessive power and no important mitigating components current.”

The committee additionally discovered the incident was harmful. After contemplating all related components, it determined the foul play merited a mid-range entry level of six weeks however decreased the ban by three weeks due to Lienert-Brown’s “exemplary file and responsible plea.”

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