Ellis Genge: England and Bristol prop given three-week ban for dangerous tackle

Ellis Genge (left) apologised to Tom Curry aft the incidental astatine Ashton Gate

England prop Ellis Genge has been banned for 3 weeks for a unsafe tackle connected Tom Curry during Bristol's decision by Sale.

He accepted the complaint earlier Tuesday's hearing, with mitigating factors meaning the prohibition was reduced by half.

If helium completes a World Rugby coaching involution programme, the suspension volition beryllium further reduced to 2 weeks.

Genge, who captained England for the archetypal clip during this year's Six Nations, volition beryllium unavailable for the Bears' last 2 matches of the Premiership season, against Exeter connected 22 April and Gloucester connected 6 May.

"In airy of his acceptance of the complaint astatine the earliest opportunity, his apology to Tom Curry, and his antecedently bully disciplinary grounds implicit a agelong vocation of implicit 150 apical level matches and 40 planetary matches, the sheet were contented to mitigate the suspension," said sheet seat Matthew Weaver.