Curry ban set in contemporary blow for England at Rugby World Cup
Curry was sent off for a head-to-head collision with Juan Cruz Mallia simply three minutes into England’s 27-10 victory over Argentina on Saturday.
England shook off the dismissal to dispatch the Pumas at Stade Velodrome regardless of the person drawback, and have now obtained the enhance of a brief absence to their potent Sale flanker.
Curry pleaded responsible to the cost in a digital listening to on Tuesday afternoon, showing earlier than the three-strong panel from England’s coaching base in Le Touquet.
The committee imposed the obligatory harmful deal with mid-range sanction of six matches, however diminished the penalty by 50 per cent.
Curry’s responsible plea and acceptance {that a} crimson card was the suitable final result noticed the suspension drop from six to 3 matches.
And if he now goes via World Rugby’s deal with college initiative, he’ll have the ability to characteristic in England’s closing Pool D conflict, in opposition to Samoa on October 7.
Curry has signalled his intent to finish the deal with college programme, which can go away him simply lacking Sunday’s match with Japan in Nice, and the encounter with Chile on September 23.
England have obtained 4 yellow playing cards in six matches, starting from Freddie Steward’s later rescinded dismissal in Six Nations motion in Dublin, to Owen Farrell and Billy Vunipola’s sendings-off in World Cup warm-up matches.
Curry was within the third minute of his first match since May when he clashed heads with Mallia in Saturday’s World Cup opener.
“The player accepted that foul play occurred and that the offence warranted a red card,” learn a World Rugby assertion.
“The player intends to apply to take part in the World Rugby coaching intervention programme to substitute the final match of the sanction for a coaching intervention aimed at modifying specific techniques and technical issues that contributed to the foul play.”
England will probably be loath to lose Curry in any respect, particularly given his lack of aggressive motion after an ankle damage.
But now the 25-year-old will have the ability to characteristic within the closing pool encounter, at which level England will hope he can play his strategy to sharpness earlier than a possible quarter-final.
There is each probability England might have performed the odds within the choice for Curry to plead responsible.
A prudent technique would have been to simply accept the crimson card, undergo deal with college and hope to obtain a suspension that may nonetheless permit for his return within the competitors.
Billy Vunipola can return after his personal high-tackle crimson card this weekend to face Japan, which can offset Curry’s absence within the back-row.