The NRL Telstra Premiership’s top recruit, Jack Wighton, will not be available to the Rabbitohs until Round 3, with Raider Seb Kris and Rooster Jared Waerea-Hargreaves returning in Round 2.
After Canberra’s misfortune to the Knights at the end of the past season, Wighton was given a three-game suspension; the All Stars game will be the primary reason for his suspension.
After that, he won’t be on display for South Sydney’s diversions against the Ocean Hawks and Broncos some time recently, playing the Chickens once more in Circular 3.
After the Chickens crushed the Wests Tigers on Circular 26, Waerea-Hargreaves was charged with two offenses:
unsafe contact and striking.
The prepared prop was permitted to incorporate the Pacific Championship Tests against Unused Zealand in his suspension. He will also miss the Roosters’ trip to Las Vegas to play the Broncos.
In expansion, Kris’s five-game suspension for a dangerous throw against the Sharks in Circular 27 may well be connected to Pacific Championship recreations. He missed three Kiwi Test matches and the Raiders’ finals misfortune to the Knights. He will serve out the leftover portion of his boycott on Circular 1 when the Green Machine plays in Newcastle.
After episodes of Tonga’s third Test misfortune to Britain in November of final year, Ocean Hawks speedster Toluta’u Koula, Wests Tigers enroll Latu Fainu, and Rabbitohs hooker Siliva Havili have all been suspended for one coordinate.
The three players can serve their suspensions within the 2024 NRL Pre-Season Challenge in February since they were charged by an IRL coordinate survey committee.
