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Ban sees Wilson sidelined
6 January 2009, 1:44 pm
Northampton Saints' Roger Wilson has been banned for five weeks after pleading guilty to a dangerous tackle on Harlequins' Will Skinner.
Wilson will be out of action until February 9, so he will miss this weekend's derby with Leicester, the two final European Challenge Cup pool games – though Saints have already qualified for the quarter-finals – and the Guinness Premiership trip to Harlequins.

At a hearing at the London Bloomsbury Holiday Inn, the RFU disciplinary panel, comprising chair Jeremy Summers, Julian Morris and John Doubleday, decided Wilson's dump tackle on Skinner was bad enough to be given a mid-range punishment.

The top end of the scale for a dangerous tackle is 10 weeks, with the lowest being two weeks.

It also means Wilson will be unavailable for the opening game of the Six Nations championship for Ireland.

Wilson is the second of Saints' back-row to suffer a suspension this season, with former Ulster team-mate Neil Best being banned for 18 weeks for eye-gouging Wasps' James Haskell.

Best is due back on January 28, so for the next three games Mark Hopley looks set to slot into the No.8 spot.
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