Cayless faces 11 weeks......

[The Colonel]

Cayless suffers double blow
May 3, 2004

PARRAMATTA captain Nathan Cayless suffered a double blow today when he was diagnosed with a broken arm and charged by the National Rugby League match review committee.

Cayless, likely to be sidelined for two months with the arm injury, could also be suspended for 11 matches by the judiciary.

The New Zealand forward was charged with a grade five reckless high tackle for his first half hit on Josh Hannay on Saturday night.

Hannay was taken to hospital and later cleared of a serious neck injury.

Cayless was also charged with grade three striking over a 52nd minute incident involving Cowboys veteran Travis Norton.

The Eels did receive some good news today when Cayless's fellow prop Chris Armit was cleared of a broken arm.

In other judiciary news, the Warriors could pay a high price for their win over Melbourne on Sunday, with props Richard Villasanti and Jerry Seuseu charged today.

Villasanti was charged with a grade two careless high tackle and could be suspended for one match while Seuseu could also be banned for one game on a grade one striking offence.

North Queensland's Nathan Fien and South Sydney's Owen Craigie were both charged with grade one careless high tackles and could face maximum one match bans.

AAP

 

[bradeel]

that is seriously great news about Chris Armit.

Bad news about Cayless but if he is injured, he may as well be suspended. Makes no difference to me...

 

[Pazza]

Thank god about Armit!

 

[Eels Dude]

It looks like a no win situation for Cayless and Parramatta. Then again at the same at least he is injured and suspended at the same time. I'd hate to have him return from an 11 week suspension and then be out for 3 months with a broken arm.

 

[Kornstar]

Well you can't really have sympathy for Cayless at it was a very reckless tackle and he is renowned for getting suspended not to mention getting injured......it is probably lucky for us this year he has done both in the one week........the last few years he has seperated them and it meant less time playing.

 

[strider]

I believe a grade 5 reckless is over the top - thats basically as bad as there is.

And why the hell was he charged over the elbow aswell? - the Cowboys put on several elbow fends in the early stages of the game themselves....infact the ONLY reason he got reported for it was because Norton started a fight - I am willing to bet anything that had there been no fight, the touch judge would not have reported the supposed elbow and thus nothing come of it.

 

[Eelectrica]

Iknow it's a moot point with the Cayless's arm injury but I think Birds knee was worse than what Cayless did.

 

[Twizzle]

If Armits arm is not broken, does any one know if he will be right for the Storm.

 

[AlexTheEel]

Amritt should be right for the storm. Cayless will miss 8 weeks if he takes the ealry pleas for both and will miss 2 weeks anyway with the broken arm.

 

[HAVEFAITHBOYS]

watched this thing on fox... showed some of the big cowboy players doing the same thing as cayless with the forarm...only hindmarsh didnt start a fight... daley and them were saying that if cayless gets done so should they.....

interesting.... seems lately all officials hate parra... still rem that game where harrigan sent of all our players off against newcastle..

 

[Eelementary]

Why is it we seem to be getting media exposure for all the wrong reasons a la Bulldogs this year?

Bloody Cayless. Great player, but an idiotic tackle.

 

[Hurriflatch]

IMO Cayless will be lucky Hannay doesn't sure him for assault. If it was done in the street Cayless would be looking at jail time

It was a cheap, late, high tackle it looked like something from the 1960s-1970s

I like Cayless but there was no excuse for it

 

[nöyd]

Not the best example for the captain to be showing...

 

[Twizzle]

Caylo was fraustrated like the other players and most of us.

But that is his job, and he should have more self control.

 

[di luvs parra]

But he was just helping to bring back the biff :badgrin: