{"id":14680,"date":"2012-09-16T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/rugby-south-africas-greyling-banned-for-forearm-smash-on-mccaw\/"},"modified":"2012-09-16T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T14:31:07","slug":"rugby-south-africas-greyling-banned-for-forearm-smash-on-mccaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-south-africas-greyling-banned-for-forearm-smash-on-mccaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-South Africa&#8217;s Greyling banned for forearm smash on McCaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">SYDNEY, Sept 16<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Dean Greyling will miss South Africa&#8217;s Rugby Championship test against Australia at the end of the month after the prop was banned for two weeks for a forearm smash on New Zealand captain Richie McCaw.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Greyling was sent to the sin-bin for the offense, which occurred in the 64th minute of the Springboks&#8217; 21-11 defeat to the All Blacks in Dunedin on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He was cited after the match and the case was reviewed by the judicial officer of governing body SANZAR.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Greyling, whilst in the process of cleaning out at a ruck, recklessly used his forearm such that he made contact in a dangerous way with the head of New Zealand player Ritchie McCaw,&#8221; read the verdict.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although there was no injury complained of, the action had potential to cause serious injury.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Greyling, who admitted his guilt, will miss South Africa&#8217;s penultimate test of the championship against Australia in Pretoria on Sept. 29.   (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Sept 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Dean Greyling will miss South Africa&#8217;s Rugby Championship test against Australia at the end of the month after the prop was banned for two weeks for a forearm smash on New Zealand captain Richie McCaw. Greyling was sent to the sin-bin for the offense, which occurred in the 64th minute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}