Viliame Kikau will miss Penrith's preliminary final after being found guilty of dangerously throwing Sydney's Jared Waerea-Hargreaves in the Panthers' win over the Roosters.
Viliame Kikau has been rubbed out of Penrith's preliminary final showdown after being found guilty at the NRL judiciary of a dangerous throw.Viliame Kikau's lawyer argued he actually attempted to stop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves's head hitting the ground
Kikau and his legal team failed to convince the three-man panel that Jared Waerea-Hargreaves dipped his own body into a tackleThe verdict comes as a blow to Penrith's hopes of playing in their first grand final in 17 years, given Kikau is the most damaging second-rower in the competition. "There was no wrestle in the tackle, but there was an attempt by Waerea-Hargreaves to get to ground as soon as possible," Ghabar told the panel.
Instead, they believed the NRL's claims that it had largely been Waerea-Hargreaves' actions that stopped the tackle from being far worse."There is no attempt to stop or arrest that trajectory, causing him to be in a dangerous position.
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