Ellis Genge will attend tackle school to be available for England after ban | England rugby union team

Ellis Genge will attend tackle school so as to make himself available for the beginning of England’s World Cup preparations following a three-match ban for a harmful tackle.

Genge was proven a yellow card in Bristol’s defeat by Sale on Friday for a tackle on his England teammate Tom Curry however was subsequently cited and handed a suspension. Genge can cut back his ban to two matches by finishing World Rugby’s teaching intervention programme – referred to as “tackle school” – and has confirmed his intention to accomplish that. That means he will miss Bristol’s remaining two matches of the season however will be free for England’s first World Cup warmup match on 5 August towards Wales.

The 28-year-old prop was initially handed a six-week ban however was afforded the complete 50% mitigation. The disciplinary panel stated: “In light of his acceptance of the charge at the earliest opportunity, his apology to Tom Curry, and his previously good disciplinary record over a long career of over 150 top level matches and 40 international matches, the Panel were content to mitigate the suspension by the maximum 50%, reducing the suspension to a three-week suspension.”

Meanwhile, the Exeter director of rugby, Rob Baxter, has defended Jack Nowell after the winger was charged by the Rugby Football Union for criticising the referee Karl Dickson on social media. As revealed by the Guardian, Nowell might face a ban for tweeting that Dickson’s choice to present Olly Woodburn a second yellow card was “one of the worst I’ve ever seen”.

Baxter, nonetheless, insisted Nowell’s feedback weren’t directed at Dickson and believes gamers ought to be free to debate selections such because the Woodburn purple card – right in regulation however baffling to the informal observer.

“Jack hasn’t done it with any intention of criticising the referee at all. He has misworded it,” stated Baxter. “All he has talked about is the choice. It hasn’t been directed at Karl Dickson, it has been directed on the recreation and been finished in frustration on the legal guidelines of the sport, reasonably than the referee. He has not gone after the referee in any respect. He has made a mistake. He knew in a short time he shouldn’t have finished it, eliminated the put up, and he will be the primary individual to apologise to Karl Dickson.

“It is good to have a debate on these things, and I know for a fact there is going to be some debate around the Olly Woodburn situation because refereeing departments higher up the chain are concerned with how do you referee that scenario.”

As revealed by the Guardian, England gamers will be given contemporary social media steerage “in line with World Cup regulations” earlier than the match in France and Baxter revealed he had reminded his gamers as to the platform’s pitfalls. “With Jack’s charge, it came through as I was getting ready for a players’ meeting,” he added. “I said: ‘Just be careful, you know you need to be really careful on these things.’ That is all you can really say.”