Raiders winger Jordan Rapana is facing two to three weeks on the sidelines for a crunching high shot on Storm centre Marion Seve.
The Raiders were just getting on top of the Storm in their Sunday afternoon clash at AAMI Stadium when Rapana took Seve high in the 58th minute, and was sent to the sin bin.
Rapana was charged with a grade-two careless high tackle for the hit, one of two reportable offences Rapana committed on Seve in the game.
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He was also charged with a grade-one shoulder charge from a 40th minute clash, but can escape that incident with a $3000 fine if he enters an early guilty plea.
Should he choose to fight both charges Rapana would face a possible five weeks on the sidelines. If he enters early guilty pleas to both charges he’ll be suspended for two weeks.
Should he go down that path, it will be the second time Rapana has been suspended this year, having spent the first two weeks of the NRL season watching after a shoulder charge in the All Stars game.
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The second clash in Sunday’s match happened at a crucial time for the Raiders, as momentum swung their way.
A man down, the Raiders conceded a try off the next play when Harry Grant ran out of dummy half to draw the Storm level.
“They had just started to win the field position battle, then there’s a careless tackle, a sinbin, and then the markers were not paying attention,” Brad Fittler said in commentary for Nine.
From the same match Storm enforcer Nelson Asofa-Solomona was charged with a grade-one careless high tackle on Rapana in the 69th minute. He’ll cop an $1800 fine with an early guilty plea.
Rapana was the only player facing a ban from the weekend’s action.
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