Overview
- Hastings, sanctioned Wednesday by an independent judicial officer, received a two-week suspension for persistent offending.
- The ban follows three yellow cards in seven club games this year: dangerous tackles on January 24 against Zebre and April 25 against the Stormers, plus a March 21 retaliation versus Leinster that escalated into a melee.
- The judicial report says two tackles involved shoulder-to-head contact with no real arm wrap and calls his conduct moderately serious after he chose not to contest the cards.
- The suspension rules him out of Glasgow’s URC fixtures on May 8 against Cardiff and May 15 against Ulster.
- Under World Rugby’s totting-up policy, repeat yellow cards can draw a short ban of one to three weeks, which lets a judicial officer set a brief suspension without applying punishments for each incident.