England captain George Williams will miss the primary two Exams towards Tonga having been given an prolonged ban following Warrington’s play-off defeat by St Helens.
However having pleaded responsible to a Grade B cost, he then challenged the grading.
The impartial Operational Guidelines Tribunal rejected the problem and deemed it frivolous, resulting in the ban being doubled to 2 video games.
The Warrington scrum-half succeeded his former Wigan Warriors team-mate Sam Tomkins as England captain in April 2023, after Tomkins stepped down following final 12 months’s World Cup.
In the meantime, St Helens prop Matty Lees additionally challenged the grading of an analogous Grade B shoulder cost and had his enchantment upheld by the tribunal.
He’ll now be eligible to face Tonga within the first Take a look at at St Helens’ Completely Depraved Stadium on 22 October.
