Wasps to contest Nathan Hughes RFU three-week ban, says Dai Young

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With Northampton arranging for a consultant neurosurgeon to help assess whether George North is fit to return to play after being knocked unconscious last Friday, the Wasps director of rugby Dai Young has reiterated that the man who caused the injury, Nathan Hughes, did so unwittingly.

The RFU’s disciplinary committee on Tuesday night found Hughes guilty of striking with the knee and/or shin and subsequently banned the 23-year-old – who was sent off after colliding with North and catching his head with his knee – for three weeks with immediate effect. He is free to play again on 28 April.

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