{"id":1560,"date":"2025-11-19T19:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2025-11-19T19:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:57:05","slug":"nepo-laulala-gloucester-prop-banned-after-dangerous-tackle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1560","title":{"rendered":"Nepo Laulala: Gloucester prop banned after dangerous tackle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Gloucester&#8217;s former New Zealand prop Nepo Laulala has been banned for a minimum of two matches for a dangerous tackle.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old was cited after video reviews showed he had made contact on Bristol prop Scott Kirk&#8217;s head with his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laulala was not sanctioned during the game for the incident during the Prem Rugby Cup match on 19 September at Kingsholm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having watched the footage an independent panel deemed the incident was worthy of a red card and imposed a three-game ban, which can be reduced by a game of Laulala successfully completes the World Rugby Coaching Intervention Programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will miss the Prem Rugby game against Harlequins on 29 November and the European Champions Cup fixture with Castres the following weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Should he not complete his intervention work he will also miss the trip to Munster on 13 December. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloucester&#8217;s former New Zealand prop Nepo Laulala has been banned for a minimum of two matches for a dangerous tackle. The 34-year-old was cited after video reviews showed he had made contact on Bristol prop Scott Kirk&#8217;s head with his shoulder. Laulala was not sanctioned during the game for the incident during the Prem Rugby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}