Chad Townsend to miss remainder of regular season after accepting early guilty plea for Ponga hit – Wide World of Sports

Sharks playmaker Chad Townsend has accepted an early guilty plea for a shoulder charge on Knights fullback Kalyn Ponga and will miss the remainder of the regular season.
Townsend sent the NRL world into pandemonium on Friday night when he rocketed himself into an unsuspecting Ponga off a 20-metre restart in the Sharks’ loss to the Knights at McDonald Jones Stadium.
It was just the third time this year a player had been sent directly from the field, but there was a belief that Townsend may have…

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