Zander Fagerson BANNED for the rest of the Six Nations

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Zander Fagerson BANNED for the rest of the Six Nations as Scotland prop picks up four-match suspension for his red card against Wales after colliding with Alun Wyn Jones’s head

  • Zander Fagerson will miss the rest of the Six Nations with a four-match ban 
  • The Scotland prop was sent off in his side’s 25-24 defeat to Wales on Saturday
  • Fagerson collided with Alun Wyn Jones’s head when clearing out a ruck
  • He told a disciplinary hearing he accepted foul play but didn’t believe it was a red

By Pa Sport Staff

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Zander Fagerson will miss the rest of Scotland’s Six Nations campaign after receiving a four-match suspension for his red card against Wales.

Tighthead prop Fagerson collided with Alun Wyn Jones’s head when clearing out a ruck in Scotland’s 25-24 defeat in Edinburgh on Saturday.

Fagerson’s four-week suspension means he will miss Scotland’s remaining Six Nations matches against France, Ireland and Italy.

Zander Fagerson (centre) will miss the rest of the Six Nations with a four-match suspension

Fagerson was shown red after colliding with Alun Wyn Jones’s head when clearing out a ruck

Fagerson told a Six Nations disciplinary hearing he accepted the act of foul play, but did not believe the offence warranted a red card.

‘The disciplinary committee found that the act of foul play warranted a mid-range entry point, six weeks’ suspension, and reduced that by two weeks to take account of mitigating factors, including his admission of foul play, good disciplinary record and remorse,’ read a Six Nations statement.

‘Mr Fagerson is therefore suspended for four weeks and, given his playing schedule, he will miss the three Scotland matches in the Guinness Six Nations Championship against France, Ireland and Italy, and one further match to be determined.’

Glasgow star Fagerson’s insistence his infringement did not merit a red card will only serve to extend the fall-out of a decision hotly contested by many in Scotland colours.

Hamish Watson initially branded Fagerson’s red card ‘rubbish’, ‘absolutely dreadful’ and ‘not rugby’.

But the flanker then later described those comments of his own as ‘poor’ on social media, having had time to reflect and insisting he had been speaking on emotion.