The All Blacks might be with out Anton Lienert-Brown for the Rugby Championship match towards the Springboks after the centre was cited for a harmful deal with within the Tremendous Rugby remaining.

The Chiefs’ Lienert-Brown was yellow-carded after colliding with Crusaders again Dallas McLeod within the opening quarter of the Tremendous Rugby remaining on Saturday.

Regardless of Lienert-Brown making head-on-head contact and each gamers being in an upright place, referee Ben O’Keeffe and TMO Brendon Pickerill have been content material to maintain the sanction to a yellow card after a second have a look at the footage.

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Nonetheless, the match’s citing commissioner selected assessment that the incident meets the purple card threshold for foul play.

Lienert-Brown is alleged to have contravened Regulation 9.13: a participant should not deal with an opponent dangerously. The case will first be reviewed by the Sanzaar Foul Play Evaluation Committee, which is able to happen on Monday 26 June 2023 through video-conference.

All Sanzaar disciplinary issues are within the first occasion referred to the Foul Play Evaluation Committee to supply the choice of expediting the judicial course of.

For a matter to be distributed with at this listening to, the particular person showing should plead responsible and settle for the penalty provided by the Foul Play Evaluation Committee.

The 56-Check Lienert-Brown was named within the All Blacks’ squad for the Rugby Championship, which will get underway on 8 July.

If suspended for 2 weeks or extra, he would miss the conflict between the All Blacks and Springboks in Auckland on 15 July.

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