Cumbrian RU pair given six week bans
Last updated 14:33, Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Two Cumbrian players have been suspended for six weeks following a meeting of the county RFU Discipline Panel.
Workington and Cumbria number eight David Bowe appeared to answer a charge of kicking an opponent.
He was found guilty and the ban started after the Zebras big match with Vale of Lune on Saturday which, ironically, means he will not be able to play until the Zebras resume their League programme on January 3 – at home to Vale of Lune.
However, if Workington do arrange a friendly over Christmas and New Year he would be able to play as his ban ends on December 21.
Lee Dickinson of Millom was handed a similar length of suspension – from November 10 to December 12 – for striking and kicking an opponent.
Nigel Robinson of Moresby was given a four weeks ban for striking an opponent so that he will be able to play after December 7.
His Moresby team-mate Kyle McCurrie picked up two yellow cards in a match and he will miss two weeks, returning after November 23.
But the disciplinary panel decided that the two yellow cards Keswick’s David Ray was given in a League game, culminating in his dismissal, don’t warrant a suspension. Sending off was regarded as a sufficient punishment.
Another player who escaped censure was Wigton’s David Thompson, who appeared before the panel at Penrith for an alleged butt on an opponent. He was found not guilty.
The seventh player in front of the panel, Aspatria back row forward Gary Hodgson was given a two week sentence for a dangerous tackle on an opponent.
