Official Release: Burgess to take early guilty plea

Author: NRL.com
Timestamp: Mon 2 Aug 2010, 04:46 PM

The South Sydney Football Club and Sam Burgess have taken an early guilty plea on a grade two dangerous contact – head/neck contact charge coming out of last Friday’s match against the Bulldogs.

Burgess attracts 187 points for the charge, sidelining him for this Saturday night’s clash with the Wests Tigers at ANZ Stadium.

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