Pirates Coach Paver Banned For Slapping Player

Cornish Pirates joint-head coach Alan Paver has been banned for six matches aft admitting to slapping an guidance player.

The coach, who has been successful joint-charge of nan nine alongside Gavin Cattle for almost a decade, was sent disconnected successful nan last 10 minutes of Saturday's Champ crippled betwixt Pirates and Worcester Warriors aft a melee.

It has been claimed nan confrontation began erstwhile Worcester's Will Reed tried to forestall a Pirates subordinate getting nan shot backmost to return a penalty.

Paver past entered nan section and erstwhile Worcester's Jake Garside came successful to intervene, he slapped him. Worcester won nan crippled 29-7 astatine nan Mennaye Field successful Penzance.

Paver was charged pinch behaviour prejudicial to nan interests of nan game, pinch nan incident's level of seriousness deemed to beryllium astatine nan precocious extremity of nan offence.

The disciplinary sheet initially gave Paver a 12-game prohibition but trim nan reward by 50% because he admitted to nan charges and had a bully erstwhile disciplinary record.

It intends he will miss nan club's remaining regular-season matches, arsenic good arsenic nan first information of nan play-offs should nan nine decorativeness successful nan apical six.

If they neglect to scope nan play-offs, he will beryllium banned for nan Pirates' first pre-season game.

Under nan position of his prohibition he is not capable to beryllium pinch nan broadside for an hr earlier nan commencement of immoderate match.

"I person been coaching for complete 14 years and person maintained a wholly cleanable disciplinary grounds passim that time," Paver said successful a connection to nan disciplinary panel.

"I afloat recognise that my actions do not align pinch nan values of nan crippled aliases nan standards expected of maine arsenic a coach."