21 Mar 2012

Ioane gets 5 weeks despite guilty plea

4:29 pm on 21 March 2012

The Queensland Reds and Wallabies winger Digby Ioane won't be seen in Super rugby again until April the end of next month afer being banned for five weeks for a spear tackle on the Sharks loose forward Marcell Coetzee last Sunday in Durban.

Ioane pleaded guilty to the charge, but the SANZAR judicial officer Mike Heron said previous disciplinary matters relating to dangerous tackles in 2008 had counted against the New Zealand-born winger.