{"id":176,"date":"2021-07-08T13:35:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T08:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=122213"},"modified":"2021-07-08T13:38:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T08:08:29","slug":"huddersfields-kenny-edward-banned-for-10-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/huddersfields-kenny-edward-banned-for-10-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Huddersfield\u2019s Kenny Edwards banned for 10 matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huddersfield forward Kenny Edwards has been banned for 10 matches for putting his finger up the bottom of an opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Following a complaint brought by Dragons prop Sam Kasiano the New Zealand player was put on report by referee Ben Thaler during the Giants\u2019 50-12 home defeat by Catalans Dragons last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards was charged by the Rugby Football League\u2019s match review panel for the incident with a Grade F offence. This is the most serious available to it, for \u201cother contrary behaviour\u201d and referred to an independent tribunal. The panel handed out the punishment following a hearing on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards, a former Catalans player, pleaded guilty to the charge and was also handed a \u00a3500 fine.<\/p>\n<p>Catalans back-rower Joel Tomkins was suspended for eight games for a similar offence last year. Wingers Tommy Makinson (St Helens) and Tom Lineham (Warrington) were also suspended for five and eight matches respectively for grabbing opponents\u2019 testicles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"grid__col site-layout-secondary__col1 \">\n<div id=\"widgetLite-8\" class=\"article\" data-fn=\"article-advert\" data-lite=\"true\">\n<div id=\"widgetLite-9\" class=\"article__body article__body--lead\" data-fn=\"article-outbrain\" data-lite=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/rugby-league\/news\/12214\/12351182\/kenny-edwards-huddersfield-forward-banned-for-putting-finger-up-opponents-bottom\">\n<p>Meanwhile, Kasiano successfully challenged a one-game penalty notice after being charged with a Grade B offence of dangerous contact during the game against Huddersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Kasiano pleaded guilty to the offence however the tribunal agreed the charge should be downgraded and he avoided a ban, freeing him to play against Leeds on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealander was put on report by referee Ben Thaler during the Giants\u2019 50-12 home defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":23319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1864,164],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-leeds","tag-new-zealand"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}