Matt Fagerson: Glasgow flanker banned for three weeks after red card

Glasgow Warriors’ Matt Fagerson has been suspended for 3 weeks following his red card against La Rochelle on Saturday.

Scott Cummings’ final-minute try in a 12-7 Champions Cup defeat became once disallowed when Fagerson illegally led along with his forearm within the make-up.

The flanker, 21, will leave out both festive fixtures against Edinburgh and the first sport of 2020 against Benetton.

He’ll be on hand to play all every other time from Monday 6 January.

Laws 9.12 relating to to inserting with the arm carries the following sanction entry components – low cease: two weeks; mid-differ: six weeks; top cease: 10 to 52 weeks.

A 3-man impartial disciplinary studied video photos of the incident and heard proof and submissions from Fagerson, who permitted the dismissal, as successfully as Glasgow Warriors personnel manager Kenny Brown and EPCR disciplinary officer Liam McTiernan.

A press free up from the Champions Cup organisers mentioned: “Fagerson had made contact with Danny Priso’s neck in a unhealthy formulation. It then made up our minds that the offence became once on the mid-differ of World Rugby’s sanctions and selected six weeks because the exact entry level.

“There occupy been no anxious components, and taking into tale the player’s guilty plea, particular disciplinary story and expression of remorse, the committee diminished the sanction by the maximum of 50%.”