BARROW-born Morgan Knowles, who plays as a loose forward for rugby league team St Helens, has been issued a five-match suspension and £500 fine.
This was after Knowles faced an independent tribunal by the Match Review Panel following a Super League match last Friday.
He was issued a Grade D 'Dangerous Contact' charge for a challenge on Wigan prop Mike Cooper which left him leaving the field with clear signs of a knee injury.
The Match Review Panel charged Knowles with: "Dangerous Contact - Defender uses any part of their body forcefully to twist, bend or otherwise apply pressure to the limb or limbs of an opposing player in a way that involves an unacceptable risk of injury to that player. Grade D."
The standard Grade D tariff is two to three matches.
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