{"id":189898,"date":"2025-06-16T20:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189898\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T20:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:48:17","slug":"sauaso-sue-opens-up-on-spitting-charge-tribunal-and-hull-kr-owner-neil-hudgells-representation-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189898\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauaso Sue opens up on spitting charge, tribunal and Hull KR owner Neil Hudgell\u2019s representation \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/sauaso-sue-opens-up-on-spitting-charge-tribunal-and-hull-kr-owner-neil-hudgells-representation\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Sauaso Sue opens up on spitting charge, tribunal and Hull KR owner Neil Hudgell\u2019s representation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AM11320x-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THIS time last week, Hull KR prop Sauaso Sue was staring down the barrel of a potentially mammoth ban after being handed a Grade E Spitting charge in the aftermath of Rovers\u2019 8-6 Challenge Cup Final win over Warrington Wolves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sent immediately to an Operational Rules Tribunal, Sue could well have missed a whole host of games in the second half of the Super League season.<\/p>\n<p>As it was, the barnstorming forward was found not guilty by the Tribunal, which conceded that, whilst spitting, Sue did not do so deliberately in the direction of a Warrington player.<\/p>\n<p>Now the man himself has spoken on the incident and the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was pretty nervewracking to be fair and the process took a long time,\u201d Sue said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was happy with the result, I don\u2019t want to be in that position again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to make sure I\u2019m not spitting near people again or not spitting again at all on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sue was represented by owner and solicitor Neil Hudgell at the Operational Rules Tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHim and his team represented me really well so I\u2019m really grateful for their time and getting me off my charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fair to say that the not guilty charged certainly helped Rovers, with Sue grabbing two tries in the 68-6 demolition of Catalans Dragons last Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THIS time last week, Hull KR prop Sauaso Sue was staring down the barrel of a potentially mammoth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-189898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114695012933287499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}